Latest California Headlines
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Calif. State Fund Board: Drop Rates 7%
Oct 22 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund’s board has voted for a 7 percent decrease in its 2013 rates, a move that reflects State Fund’s anticipated savings from a workers’ compensation reform...
EPIC Names Dunn VP of Workers’ Comp Claims in Central California
Oct 19 2012 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Joe Dunn vice president of workers’ compensation claims in its Fresno, Calif. office. Dunn will be responsible for workers’ comp claims advocacy, and he will work with...
California City Seeks to Cut Asthma Rate via ‘Social Impact’ Bond Issue
Oct 19 2012 // The city of Fresno, Calif., will be the first municipality in the United States to see whether “social impact bonds,” an innovative security that promotes a societal benefit, can be used to tackle a major...
‘Big One’ Looms in Minds of Experts Before California ShakeOut
Oct 18 2012 // A day before more than 9 million people in California took part in a massive nationwide earthquake drill on Thursday, U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones stood in a room full of risk professionals in the San...
Conservation Groups Sue California Agency Over Fracking
Oct 18 2012 // Conservation groups are suing California’s oil and gas drilling regulators over hydraulic fracturing, charging officials with failing to properly study the practice’s environmental impacts. The lawsuit filed...
California Regulators Probe CVS Drug Refills Policy
Oct 18 2012 // California regulators are investigating reports that CVS Caremark Corp. refilled prescriptions without patient consent, or insurance approval. The Los Angeles Times reported customers in California and other states...
SullivanCurtisMonroe Adds Warren in Southern California
Oct 18 2012 // SullivanCurtisMonroe named Christopher Warren as a property casualty consultant in its Irvine, Calif. office. Warren joins SCM from Georgetown Insurance Service Inc., where he was a business development associate. He has...
Leavitt Group Promotes Niebuhr and Bergan to SVPs in Northern California
Oct 18 2012 // The Leavitt Group promoted Mark Niebuhr to senior vice president over the Captive and Alternative Risk Consulting Group and Bill Bergan vice president over the Construction & Surety Practice Group. Both posts are in...
California Labor Commissioner Files $1.6 Million Suit Seeking Wages for Ag Workers
Oct 16 2012 // California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su filed a $1.6 million lawsuit in Monterey County Superior Court on Tuesday against a Greenfield farm labor contractor, Salvador Zavala Chavez, dba Zavala Farms, for multiple...
Corrosion Linked To 2011 Chevron Refinery Fire in California
Oct 16 2012 // Corrosion that went unchecked – the suspected cause of a fire at Chevron Corp.’s Richmond, Calif. refinery in August – has been linked to a fire at the plant in October 2011, the San Francisco Chronicle is...
Southern California Worker Dies in Tuna Plant Oven
Oct 15 2012 // A worker died in an oven on Thursday at a Southern California plant that produces Bumble Bee tuna. Jose Melena, 62, was cooked to death in a steam oven at the Bumble Bee Foods processing plant in Santa Fe Springs, Calif....
Fireman’s Fund Names Bethune VP in Northern California
Oct 15 2012 // Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. named Travis Bethune vice president of distribution management and services leader. Bethune will provide strategic and operational direction for the distribution and...
Vice Mayor of California Town, an Insurance Broker, Convicted of Embezzlement
Oct 15 2012 // The vice mayor of a small Contra Costa County, California, city faces an uncertain future after he was found guilty of felony embezzlement of insurance premiums. Clayton Vice Mayor Joe Medrano is also an insurance broker...
Wrongful Death Claim In U.S. Border Patrol Shooting In Southern California
Oct 14 2012 // The family of a 32-year-old mother of five shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent as he rode on her car’s hood in suburban San Diego has filed a wrongful death claim against the agency, saying the agent had a...
State Fund Chief Holds High Expectations for Calif. Workers’ Comp
Oct 14 2012 // If all goes well, workers’ compensation reform in California may yield even greater savings than originally believed. That is according to State Fund President and CEO Tom Rowe, who gave the keynote speech on Friday...
Calif. Plant Recalls Its Peanut Butter Ice Cream
Oct 12 2012 // Clemmy’s Ice Cream is voluntarily recalling all of its Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip because the peanut butter in it might contain salmonella. The pints involved have the UPC symbol 8 94509 00231 9 and expiration...
Autistic Teen Sues Southern California School District
Oct 11 2012 // An autistic teenager who was dragged from class and handcuffed has sued the Irvine Unified School District in Southern California. The Orange County Register says the federal suit claims excessive force was used on Adam...
Moody’s Targets Calif. Cities For Downgrades
Oct 11 2012 // One of the nation’s top credit rating agencies will review dozens of California cities for possible credit downgrades amid mounting concern over municipal bankruptcies and bond defaults. Moody’s Investors...
Leavitt Group Names Sindle Adviser in Northern California
Oct 10 2012 // The Leavitt Group’s Sacramento, Calif. office named Chris Sindle as an adviser in the professional liability program. Sindle will provide risk management solutions for law firms, including malpractice audits,...
Sullivancurtismonroe Adds Mitchell In Southern California
Oct 10 2012 // SullivanCurtisMonroe Insurance Services LLC named Randall Mitchell as a property-casualty consultant in its Irvine, Calif. office. Mitchell will focus on building out the firm’s real estate and food divisions. He has...
