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Monarch E&S Insurance Services in California Names Romano Vice President
May 21 2019 // Burbank, Calif.-based Monarch E&S Insurance Services hired Matt Romano as vice president to launch the firm’s flood practice. Romano for the last seven years has worked both as a retailer and wholesaler...
Direct Written Premium Fell in California Workers’ Comp System in 2018
May 20 2019 // Total direct written premium in the California workers’ compensation system fell for the second consecutive year in 2018, declining 3.8 percent to less than $12.3 billion as nine of the 10 largest insurer groups in...
Greenlight Re Invests in California Dispute Resolution Business Fairclaims
May 20 2019 // Greenlight Re Innovations has made a strategic investment in FairClaims, an online insurance and consumer dispute resolution startup based in Los Angeles, Calif. FairClaims is the sixth insurance technology business which...
Army Corps of Engineers Raises Risk Assessment on Southern California Dam
May 20 2019 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has changed Prado Dam’s risk characterization from moderate urgency to high urgency, based on a recent assessment. More than 1.4 million people live and work in 29 cities downstream...
California Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Chief’s Message to Comp Community
May 20 2019 // The California workers’ compensation marketplace today remains generally healthy for insurers, employers and injured workers, the chief of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California said in...
15 Calif. Chiropractors Charged in $6M Auto Insurance Scam
May 20 2019 // Fifteen Southern California chiropractors have been charged with a $6 million insurance and kickback scheme involving phony car crash medical claims. Los Angeles County prosecutors announced that the chiropractors are...
NRA to Halt ‘Unlawful Solicitation’ of Carry Guard in California
May 20 2019 // The National Rifle Association has agreed to stop soliciting insurance in California without a license, and made changes to its website and member communication materials to address allegations in a 2018 cease and desist...
Frederick H. DiMeo Acquires Ozwald and Speaker in California
May 17 2019 // The Frederick H. DiMeo Insurance Agency Inc. has purchased the personal lines division of Oakland, Calif.-based Ozwald and Speaker Insurance Services Inc. The acquisition includes the purchase of six books of business,...
California Bill to Expand Customer Ability to Sue over Handling of Data Fails
May 17 2019 // California’s senate blocked a bill on Thursday that would have expanded the ability of consumers to sue companies over their handling of personal data, a win for tech industry groups concerned about wide-ranging...
California’s New Climate and Sustainability Chief in Talks with Insurers
May 16 2019 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Michael Peterson has had about five months to come in and tackle what promises to be unique job. Peterson is California’s deputy commissioner for climate and sustainability. After...
California Agent Allegedly Steals $65K from Small Business Owners
May 16 2019 // California Insurance agent Francis Okyere, 67, self-surrendered this week at the Los Angeles County Superior Court after being charged with four felony counts of grand theft. The charges arose from an investigation by the...
California Dioceses Creating Abuse Compensation Program
May 16 2019 // Six Roman Catholic dioceses in California are creating a program to compensate people who were sexually abused by priests as children, in return for them promising not to sue. The program announced Tuesday includes the...
Alera Group Acquires HighRidge Insurance Services in California
May 16 2019 // Alera Group has acquired HighRidge Insurance Services in Westlake Village, Calif. HighRidge will join Alera Group through California firm Capital City Benefits & Insurance Services and will operate under that...
Investigators Blame PG&E Lines for Deadliest Wildfire in California History
May 15 2019 // State fire investigators have determined that transmission lines owned by Pacific Gas & Electric Co caused the deadliest and most destructive wildfire on record in California, a blaze that killed 85 people last year,...
Cavignac & Associates in California Names Sherod Account Executive
May 15 2019 // San Diego, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates has named Natalie Sherod an account executive within its commercial department. Sherod is charged with maintaining relationships with existing clients, handling renewals...
Newfront Insurance in California Names Daoussis Head of Program Innovation
May 15 2019 // Newfront Insurance in San Francisco, Calif. has named Mike Daoussis a principal and head of program innovation. Daoussis will focus on building programs for Newfront. Daoussis has more than 43 years of experience in the...
$2 Billion Verdict Far From End of Roundup Litigation Challenges for Bayer
May 15 2019 // Bayer shares continued to fall on Tuesday after a California jury on Monday awarded more than $2 billion in damages to a couple who alleged that the company’s glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup caused their...
BIG Independent Group Awards 2019 “BIGGIES” at convention
May 15 2019 // Ontario, CA, May 15, 2019 – The BIG Independent Group, a leading association of independent agent and brokers, was pleased to bestow its BIGGIE Awards for the 10th year in a row. The 2019 awards, distributed at the...
Burnham Benefits in California Promotes Tunnell to Partner
May 14 2019 // Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services Inc. has promoted Raymond Tunnell to partner. Tunnell has nearly 30 years of experience in employee benefits consulting. He has been with Burnham Benefits since...
California Commissioner to Hold Hearing on Auto Insurance Groups And Premiums
May 14 2019 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara plans to hold an investigatory hearing into how insurers’ use of occupational, educational, and other groups for setting automobile insurance rates affects insurance...
