Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
$5M Deal Reached Between California and TV Component Makers
Apr 18 2016 // California Attorney General Kamala Harris has reached a nearly $5 million settlement with electronics manufacturers accused of fixing prices. Harris’ office announced the deal with LG, Hitachi, Panasonic, Toshiba and...
California Workers’ Comp Committee Votes for Lower Mid-Year Filing
Apr 18 2016 // The governing committee of the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau voted unanimously in early April to authorize the WCIRB to submit a mid-year pure premium rate reduction filing to the...
California Court Says Employers Can’t Deny Workers Seats
Apr 18 2016 // Employers cannot deny a worker a place to sit just because they prefer the person stand, and they must consider the employee’s work station, not their overall duties, when determining whether to provide a seat, the...
Government Task Force Will Examine Massive California Natural Gas Leak
Apr 18 2016 // A new U.S. government task force will look into the country’s biggest ever accidental release of methane, which occurred over several months in Los Angeles, Calif., hoping to prevent future leaks of the potent...
RIMS 2016: Star Trek Tools, Workers Comp’s Future Help Draw Biggest Crowd in 13 Years
Apr 15 2016 // Workers’ compensation, geopolitical risks, recalls, disaster response, the captive industry and cyber security were among the topics of sessions held throughout the final day of the annual RIMS conference for risk...
5 Accused in California of More than $635K in Tax, Insurance Fraud
Apr 15 2016 // Five defendants have been arraigned in California for committing over $635,000 in tax and insurance fraud and failing to pay employees prevailing wage on public works contracts, the California Department of Industrial...
Former California Fire Official Wins Age Discrimination Suit, Awarded $704K
Apr 15 2016 // A jury has awarded $704,000 to a former division chief for the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District in California who alleged in a lawsuit he was fired due to his age. The Sun newspaper reported that the...
InterWest Taps Rappleye for Benefits Team in California
Apr 14 2016 // InterWest Insurance Services LLC has named Grant Rappleye to its employee benefits broker team in in Sacramento, Calif. He was formerly a men’s assistant golf coach at California State University...
Organized Crime Ring in California Busted for Auto Collision Fraud
Apr 14 2016 // Juan Ortiz Velazquez, 27, of San Jose, Calif. and owner of Carlos Auto Body, was arrested with seven other suspects and charged with multiple counts of felony insurance fraud on Wednesday for allegedly filing 20 fraudulent...
Burnham Benefits in California Names McVeigh Senior Account Manager
Apr 14 2016 // Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services Inc. has named Tricia McVeigh a senior account manager. McVeigh will in the trucking, transportation and logistics sector. McVeigh has more than 30 years of...
California Workers’ Comp Board Chairwoman Caplane to Retire
Apr 13 2016 // Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Chairwoman Ronnie Caplane is retiring from state service at the end of the month, it was announced. Caplane was appointed commissioner in 2003 by Gov. Gray Davis, reappointed in...
California Insurance Agent Convicted of Worker’s Comp Insurance Fraud
Apr 13 2016 // Kannai David Scantlen, 41, of Valley Springs, Calif., a former insurance agent conducting business as Kan I Save Insurance Services, was convicted of insurance fraud and sentenced to 60 days, three years of formal...
Jury to Decide If Led Zeppelin Ripped Off ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Licks
Apr 12 2016 // Led Zeppelin founders Jimmy Page and Robert Plant lost their bid to avoid a trial that may rewrite the history of rock n’ roll over song-writing credit for the 1971 classic “Stairway to Heaven.” A federal...
McCaffrey Named Chief Financial Officer of CSAA in California
Apr 11 2016 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based CSAA Insurance Group has named J. Paul McCaffrey Jr. its chief financial officer. McCaffrey has more than 25 years of experience. Most recently he was executive vice president, CFO and treasurer...
After Pay by Gender, Is Pay by Race Next for California Protects?
Apr 11 2016 // Just as California businesses begin to implement a law requiring equal pay for workers regardless of their gender, already the toughest of its kind in the nation, a state lawmaker is seeking to expand it to protect...
Schwarzenegger, Hartwig to Headline May Southern California Symposium
Apr 11 2016 // Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will headline an event next month at a Southern California university to benefit insurance students. Schwarzenegger will be joined by Robert Hartwig, an economist and president...
California Adjuster, Family and Friends Embezzled $250k from Insurer, CDI Says
Apr 8 2016 // Elizabeth Louise Brown, 48, of Canyon Country, a former claims adjuster with Explorer Insurance, was arrested this week and charged with multiple felonies, including insurance fraud and conspiracy for allegedly embezzling...
EPIC Names Miller Vice President in California
Apr 8 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has named Penny Miller vice president in the firm’s employee benefits consulting team. She will be based in San Francisco and report to David Wiesner, regional director of...
California Prosecutors, Uber Settle Over Background Checks
Apr 8 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to settle claims by California prosecutors that its background checks on drivers weren’t as thorough as advertised. The company is required to pay a civil penalty of $10 million within...
California Uber Drivers Seeking $1B Bounty Claim as Trial Draws Near
Apr 8 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. drivers suing to be treated like employees are trying to add $1 billion in penalties under California’s unique “bounty hunter” statute as they prepare for trial in June. About...
