Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Republic of Tea in California Recalls Green Tea Due to Salmonella Fears
May 9 2016 // The California-based company The Republic of Tea is recalling one of its green tea blends as a precaution over fears of possible salmonella contamination. The company said Monday that the voluntary recall of its Organic...
California Bill Would Require Hosting Platforms to Tell Clients about Coverage
May 6 2016 // A bill to require hosting platforms to disclose to the homeowner or renter host what insurance coverage they are providing to protect the host’s property is making its way through California Legislature. Senate...
3 Died in Southern California Hospital Outbreak Linked to Scopes
May 6 2016 // A newspaper reports that at least three patients died last year at a Southern California hospital in a bacterial outbreak suspected to have been caused by tainted medical scopes. Officials at Huntington Hospital in...
Facebook Must Face Claims Its Photo Tagging Violates Biometric Privacy
May 6 2016 // Facebook Inc. users who say the social network’s facial scanning flouts their privacy rights won the first round of a court fight. A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday rejected Facebook’s request to...
Earthquake Resilience Topic at Southern California Conference
May 5 2016 // Most people aren’t prepared for the big one. If there was one common theme at a three-day earthquake conference in downtown Long Beach, Calif., that was it. The National Earthquake Conference, which runs through...
Worldwide Facilities Acquires Sloan Mason in California
May 5 2016 // Worldwide Facilities LLC has agreed to acquire San Diego, Calif.-based Sloan Mason Insurance Services. Paul Mason, founder and president, and his team will join Worldwide Facilities. Mason will assume a leadership position...
Judge Rejects Uber’s Independent Contractors Claim in Sex Attacks Suit
May 5 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s denial of responsibility for sexual assaults by drivers failed to derail a lawsuit brought by two women who say they were attacked last year. A San Francisco federal judge on Wednesday...
Roamnet in California Names Manzo Director of Marketing
May 4 2016 // Roamnet Insurance Marketing in Ontario, Calif. has named Rusty Manzo director of marketing. He reports directly to Anthony Amorelli, president. Manzo will be responsible for new business development and will bring his...
Arraignment Set for Former California Agent in Decade-Long Scheme
May 4 2016 // Valerie Ann Verdugo, 38, of Bakersfield, Calif., is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on felony insurance fraud charges for obtaining insurance coverage without paying the carrier on those policies for more than a...
$4MM Commission – CA Preferred Personal Lines Agency For Sale by Ace Business Brokers
May 4 2016 // Santa Monica, CA, May 4, 2016 – Ace Business Brokers announces a Southern California preferred personal lines agency for sale: $4 million in commissions 16,500+ client base Retention rates in 90’s Adjusted Net...
Greenpath in California Names Nicholson Marketing Director
May 3 2016 // Tyler Nicholson has joined Rancho Cordova, Calif.-based Greenpath Insurance Co. as the director of marketing. Nicholson has more than 10 years of sales and marketing experience. He was previously with...
Fuhrman Joins Marsh in California as West Zone Leader
May 3 2016 // Marsh has named David Fuhrman to lead its West zone effective immediately. He will be based in Marsh’s Los Angeles, Calif. office, and will report to Rob Bentley, president of Marsh’s U.S. and Canada...
Beecher Carlson Taps Rammy Streit and Robert Streit in California
May 3 2016 // Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC has hired Rammy Streit and Robert Streit in its California offices. The two will work out of the Woodland Hills and Orange County, Calif. offices and report to Kevin Maloy, executive...
Insurance Exec Slattery Joins Driveway Team in California
May 3 2016 // Mobile telematics company Driveway Software Inc. in California’s Silicon Valley has named Mike Slattery executive vice president of product and operations. Slattery has a background in developing and launching UBI...
People – West
May 2 2016 // Phoenix, Ariz.-based CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Co. named Marc E. Schmittlein president and chief executive officer. Schmittlein will replace President and CEO Donald A. Smith, Jr., who previously announced his plans to...
Business Moves
May 2 2016 // Alliant, Andre-Romberg Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Spokane, Wash.-based Andre-Romberg Insurance Agency. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Andre-Romberg will operate as part of Alliant Americas. Kurtz,...
The Feds, the States and Self-Driving Cars
May 2 2016 // A big question looming is whether the federal government or state governments will play the primary role in setting standards for self-driving cars. Historically, the federal National Highway and Transportation Safety...
Report: Healthy but Challenging Workers’ Compensation Market
May 2 2016 // The workers’ compensation market is healthy and robust. It’s both competitive and profitable. That’s good news for business owners, the insurance industry and injured workers. Beneath the positive news,...
EPIC’s McNeil Named to California Water JPA Risk Management Board
Apr 28 2016 // David McNeil, a principal in the EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants’ Inland Empire division, has been appointed to the advisory board of the California Association of Mutual Water Companies Joint Powers Risk and...
CDI: Trucking Company Owners Cheated Workers’ Comp Carrier out of Millions
Apr 28 2016 // A pair of California trucking company owners were arrested for cheating their worker’s compensation insurer out of millions of dollars. Alvin Shin Chen, 54, and Fiona Xilin Chen, 46, both of La Cañada Flintridge,...
