Latest California Headlines
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Study: California Workers Not Weaned Off Opioids Had Much Higher Drug Costs
Mar 9 2018 // Injured workers who were not weaned off of opioids had much higher drug costs and higher treatment transaction volumes, according to a report released on Friday by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating...
Southern California Foundry Hit With Fine in Accident That Caused Worker Amputation
Mar 9 2018 // A Southern California foundry has been fined more than $280,000 for workplace safety violations following an accident that resulted in the amputation of an employee’s legs. Cal/OSHA said this week that the fine...
PG&E CEO Bashes California’s Fire Liability Law
Mar 9 2018 // PG&E Corp. CEO Geisha Williams wants to make sure you understand how much she dislikes California’s law on fire liability. The San Francisco-based utility owner could end up on the hook for billions of dollars...
Lara, Poizner and Others Vying to be California Insurance Commissioner
Mar 8 2018 // The race is on for the California insurance commissioner posts as we are nearly three months from the primary, but you wouldn’t know it by speaking to people in the insurance industry. Most insurance groups and...
Abuse Cases Against California Jehovah’s Witnesses Congregations Settled
Mar 8 2018 // Two men who say they were sexually abused by a leader at Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations in San Diego, Calif. in the 1990s have settled their lawsuits against the church’s governing body. The San Diego...
California Hospital on Earthquake Fault to Close
Mar 7 2018 // A nearly-century-old Southern California hospital that sits on an active earthquake fault will close because it can’t meet state earthquake safety requirements, officials said this week. Community Medical Center Long...
California Commissioner Orders Insurer to Halt Operations over Insolvency Risk
Mar 7 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has issued a cease and desist order against Access Insurance Co., which requires it to immediately stop transacting, soliciting, negotiating, or administering and writing any...
Lockton Names Cundith Producer in California
Mar 7 2018 // Lockton has named Matt Cundith a producer in Lockton’s Los Angeles, Calif. office. He will work with clients throughout California and the U.S. Cundith comes to Lockton from Aon, where he consulted contractors,...
Bowermaster and Associates in California Names Adam Bowermaster President
Mar 6 2018 // Cypress, Calif.-based Bowermaster and Associates Insurance Agency Inc. has named Adam Bowermaster president. Bowermaster has more than 20 years of experience. Mike Bowermaster, the firm’s previous president, will...
California OKs New Private Flood Insurance Product
Mar 6 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved a new private flood insurance product The residential product, which Jones announced the approval of on Tuesday, is provided by American National Property and...
California Surplus Lines Association Names Gilbert Chair, Elects 2018 Board
Mar 5 2018 // The members of the Surplus Line Association of California have elected Robert Gilbert of Markel West Insurance Services as the new chair of the SLA Board of Directors. Gilbert’s election was finalized after the SLA...
California Spent $1.8B Fighting 2017 Wildfires
Mar 5 2018 // California state agencies spent nearly $1.8 billion fighting fierce wildfires that killed dozens of people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses last year, legislative budget experts reported Thursday. The...
Family of Actor Bill Paxton Sues Hospital in California for Wrongful Death
Mar 5 2018 // The family of Bill Paxton has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Los Angeles hospital and the surgeon who performed the actor’s heart surgery shortly before he died. The suit filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical...
U.S. Supreme Rules Against Insurer’s Appeal Challenging Profits in Rate Setting
Mar 5 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court in late February declined to hear Mercury Insurance Co.’s appeal to overturn a February 2017 California Court of Appeal ruling that held Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ 2013 order...
First Surety Bond Program for California Cannabis Industry OK’d
Mar 5 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved the first surety bond program for the cannabis industry in the California. Continental Heritage Insurance Co. is the first insurer in the state to be approved to...
Californians Bash Trump for Bid to End Emissions-Slashing Climate Change Plan
Mar 2 2018 // California stands in “complete opposition” to a Trump administration plan to scrap a policy slashing climate-changing emissions from power plants, its top air official said Wednesday at a U.S. hearing in a...
California Governor OKs Safety Bill Prompted by Dam Crisis
Mar 1 2018 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that seeks to beef up dam inspections following a near disaster that caused the evacuation of almost 200,000 people living downstream from the tallest one in the United...
Fire Chiefs in California Want Money to Prepare for Wildfires
Mar 1 2018 // California fire chiefs said that reinforcements were too slow to arrive in last year’s ferocious firestorms and asked lawmakers for $100 million to call in extra firefighters when weather conditions are ripe for a...
Woodruff-Sawyer Names Pasek Assistant Vice President in California
Feb 28 2018 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Josh Pasek assistant vice president in the property/casualty practice of the firm’s Southern California office. Pasek will be responsible for developing strategic risk management...
Report: Number of Qualified Medical Evaluators in California Workers’ Comp Fell
Feb 28 2018 // The number of qualified medical evaluators resolve disputes over California workers’ compensation claim issues fell 20 percent between January 2012 and September 2017, according to a new California Workers’...
