Latest California Headlines
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Crystal & Co. Names Weiss Managing Director in Southern California
Dec 29 2016 // Crystal & Co. has named Scott Weiss a managing director in its commercial property/casualty department and a team leader for Northern California. Weiss’ responsibilities include the development, administration...
USI Taps Lang as Practice Leader in Southern California
Dec 29 2016 // USI has named Jeff Lang practice leader for its Southern California commercial insurance division. Lang has more than 20 years of experience in property/casualty brokerage and five years as an insurance company and TPA...
Greenberg Traurig Adds Gausewitz to Insurance Regulatory Practice in California
Dec 29 2016 // Greenberg Traurig LLP has added Bill Gausewitz as a shareholder to its government law and policy and insurance regulatory and transactions practices in the firm’s Sacramento, Calif. office. Gausewitz focuses his...
CEA Reports No Claims So Far from Nevada Quake
Dec 28 2016 // A swarm of earthquakes in Nevada produced shaking in wide parts of Northern and Central California early this morning, including in Sacramento and Fresno. The first shock, a magnitude 5.7, occurred shortly after midnight...
Deadly California Fire Has Artists, Officials Clashing over Safety of Venues
Dec 27 2016 // The party is over at Purple 33. About a week after 36 people died in a fire at an underground music party in Oakland, inspectors acting on a complaint discovered a makeshift nightclub and unpermitted living quarters...
Central California City Wins $22M from Shell Oil in Toxic Drinking Water Case
Dec 27 2016 // The central California city of Clovis has won a $22 million civil case against Shell Oil over the cleanup of a toxic chemical found in drinking-water wells, officials said. The Fresno Bee reported that the chemical...
California Mudslide Bursts Through Complex, Displaces 4 Families
Dec 27 2016 // Oceanside firefighters say a river of mud that flowed down a slope, burst through an apartment complex wall in the California town and poured into downstairs units displaced four families early Christmas morning. The...
Fleet of Self-Driving Uber Cars Gets Warm Welcome from Arizona Governor
Dec 27 2016 // Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is happy about the arrival of a fleet of Uber self-driving cars delivered via a self-driving truck that transported them from California. Ducey’s office says the governor welcomed the truck...
Young Victim’s Family Brings First Suit in Deadly California Fire
Dec 27 2016 // The parents of a 20-year-old college student who died in the arms of her boyfriend in Oakland’s deadly warehouse fire filed the first lawsuit Friday in the disaster, blaming the building’s owner, chief tenant...
South Central Regulation Report Card: Texas’ Grade Rises, Arkansas’ Drops
Dec 22 2016 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Midwest Regulation Report Card: States’ Grades Range from A to D
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
West Regulation Report Card: California Most Politicized State
Dec 22 2016 // A report gives California’s insurance regulatory environment low marks for auto body repair rules, the insurance commissioner’s call for insurers to divest from coal, its prior approval law and being the...
Uber Capitulates, Takes Self-driving Cars off Streets of San Francisco
Dec 22 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc has removed its self-driving cars from San Francisco streets after California regulators cracked down on the week-old program because the company had not obtained a permit to test the vehicles. The...
Google Confidentiality Agreement Is Unlawful, Claims Employee in Lawsuit
Dec 22 2016 // A Google Inc. product manager has sued the company, accusing it of unlawfully prohibiting employees from sharing concerns with coworkers, shareholders or the press, and maintaining a “spying program” to prevent...
USI Names Lang Commercial Insurance Leader in Southern California
Dec 21 2016 // USI has named Jeff Lang practice leader for the Southern California commercial insurance division. Lang is based in USI’s Woodland Hills regional office. He will focus on growth strategies, client service and...
California Attorney General Sues Feds in Offshore Fracking Challenge
Dec 21 2016 // Attorney General Kamala Harris and the California Coastal Commission has filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s recent finding that fracking off the state’s coast has no significant environmental...
VW Claims Costs in U.S. for Emissions Scam Top $17 Billion with More to Come
Dec 21 2016 // Volkswagen AG has agreed to a $1 billion settlement to fix or buy back another 80,000 polluting diesel vehicles sold in the United States as the German automaker on Tuesday took new steps to put its emissions cheating...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires National Ethics Bureau in California
Dec 20 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired National Ethics Bureau Inc. in Carlsbad, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Japheth Smellie and his team will continue to operate from their Southern California location...
Guidewire to Acquire Insurance Cloud Software Firm ISCS for $160 Million
Dec 19 2016 // Guidewire Software, which serves property/casualty insurers, has agreed to acquire another insurance software firm, San Jose, California-based ISCS, for $160 million in cash. The deal gives Guidewire entry into the small...
Study: Cumulative Trauma Claims in California Comp Affected by Attorneys
Dec 19 2016 // A new study on California’s workers’ compensation system finds a “strong association” between attorney involvement and the high cost of cumulative trauma claims. The California Workers’...
