Latest California Headlines
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Fire Weather May Improve for Pacific Northwest, No Such Luck for Tinderbox California
Sep 18 2020 // Rains may bring some reprieve to those suffering from massive blazes in the Pacific Northwest in the next few weeks, but forecasters don’t expect any help for wildfire-plagued California anytime soon. That’s...
Crew on Boat Where Fire Killed 34 in California Had No Emergency Training
Sep 18 2020 // Crew members on a dive boat say they were never instructed on emergency procedures before a predawn fire swept through the vessel as it was anchored off the Southern California coast, killing 34 people as they slept below...
Fitness Centers in California Suing State Over Virus Closures
Sep 17 2020 // California fitness centers have filed a lawsuit alleging Gov. Gavin Newsom’s measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus unfairly target the industry and are demanding they be allowed to reopen. The...
Moody’s Says Property/Casualty Insurers Face Significant Losses from Western Wildfires
Sep 17 2020 // Dozens of wildfires raging in California, Oregon, Washington and other Western states have resulted in loss of life, damaged or destroyed about 9,657 homes and commercial structures and burned more than 5 million acres,...
At-Bay in California Names Felton Head of Partnerships
Sep 17 2020 // At-Bay has named Kristie Felton head of partnerships. Felton will spearhead At-Bay’s collaboration with digital distribution partners, including digital broker platforms, enterprise technology companies and...
California Commissioner Holding Hearing on Homeowners Rates in Wake of Wildfires
Sep 16 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said today that he will convene an investigatory hearing in October in advance of initiating a series of regulatory actions that will protect residents from the increasing...
Why Does California Keep Burning? These Scientists Are Studying Answers.
Sep 16 2020 // Residents of fire-ravaged Western states, and an entire world of observers looking on in horror, have asked themselves, “How can this be happening?” As fire last week taunted Paradise, California, destroyed in...
Alliant Names Willis’ Shapiro Senior Vice President in California
Sep 16 2020 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Larry Shapiro senior vice president in mergers and acquisitions. Shapiro will serve as the representations and warranties team leader and be based in San Francisco, Calif. He will...
Study Tracks Post-Reform Trends in California Workers’ Comp Medical Service
Sep 15 2020 // The average number of visits for evaluation and management and physical medicine services in the California workers’ compensation system has continued to edge down since the enactment of the sweeping reform law SB...
Bad Air From Western Wildfires Just Won’t Ease up
Sep 15 2020 // Relief from putrid, dangerous air spewing from massive wildfires across the West won’t come until later in the week or beyond, scientists and forecasters say, and the hazy and gunk-filled skies might stick around for...
California Ag Firm Owner, Daughter Arraigned in $2.5M Workers’ Comp Scheme
Sep 14 2020 // Felipe Saurez Barocio, 63, of Atwater, owner of Agriculture Services Inc., and his daughter, Angelita Barocio-Negrete, 33, of Merced, were arraigned today on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly...
CoreLogic in California Taps Noland to Lead Global Insurance Solutions Business
Sep 14 2020 // CoreLogic in Irvine, Calif. has named Mick Noland executive, general manager of insurance solutions. Noland will oversee all CoreLogic solutions for the global property insurance industry. Noland has more than 25 years of...
CalFire: 14K Firefighters on the Line at 29 Major Wildfires
Sep 11 2020 // As critical fire weather conditions subsided, firefighters accomplished full containment on one of the many fires burning in the state, according to the latest report from CalFire. Roughly 14,000 firefighters remain on the...
Wildfires Grow in Oregon as 500K Evacuated, Death Toll Rises
Sep 11 2020 // Around half a million people in Oregon evacuated as dozens of extreme, wind-driven wildfires scorched U.S. West Coast states on Friday, destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 16 people, state and local...
Report Urges Urgent Action from Financial Regulators to Address Climate Change
Sep 10 2020 // Yet another report in a long line of reports is out urging urgent action from financial regulators, including insurance regulators, the Federal Reserve and the Securities Exchange Commission. The report was commissioned by...
Hospitals, Nursing Homes Fail to Separate COVID Patients, Putting Others at Risk
Sep 10 2020 // Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center were on edge as early as March when patients with COVID-19 began to show up in areas of the hospital that were not set aside to care for them. The Centers for Disease Control and...
Explained: How California’s Wildfires Could Spark a Financial Crisis
Sep 10 2020 // Wildfires across the U.S. West are among the sparks from climate change that could ignite a U.S. financial crisis by damaging home values, state tourism and local government budgets, an advisory panel to a U.S. markets...
Liberty Company in California Names Tryon Vice President of Marketing
Sep 10 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Kip Tryon vice president of marketing and branding. Tryon has been involved with Liberty’s outreach marketing efforts and after four years in roles of increasing...
Record 2 Million Acres Burned in California Wildfires
Sep 9 2020 // Wildfires have burned a record 2 million acres in California this year, and the danger for more destruction is so high the U.S. Forest Service announced Monday it was closing all eight national forests in the southern half...
California Self-Storage Firm Fined $250K for Selling Insurance Without License
Sep 8 2020 // The California Department of Insurance fined self-storage company, c, $250,000 for offering and selling more than $2.1 million in insurance products to its renters without an insurance license. SmartStop Asset Management,...
