Latest California Headlines
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California State Fund to Return $55M to Businesses
Mar 17 2022 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund on Thursday announced plans to distribute a roughly $55 million dividend to its qualifying policyholders with policies that took effect between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31,...
ALKEME Acquires VPIS Financial Services in California
Mar 17 2022 // ALKEME acquired VPIS Financial Services in Ladera Ranch, California. VPIS is a financial services firm that specializes in wealth management and corporate retirement services. ALKEME is also based in Ladera Ranch, and is...
Actuaries: Climate Change, WUI Building Led to Worsening Wildfires in U.S. and California
Mar 17 2022 // Increasingly large and dangerous wildfires are being driven by the effects of climate change and more building in the wildland-urban interface, and while that notion may not be entirely new, the scope of the increase laid...
County in California Paying $3.8M in Stun Gun Death
Mar 17 2022 // The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed to pay $3.8 million to the family of a man who died after a sheriff’s deputy shocked him with stun gun seven years ago. Relatives of Brian Pickett alleged in a...
People Moves: Alliant in California Names VanZanten VP in Employee Benefits group; Burns & Wilcox Adds New Associates
Mar 17 2022 // Alliant Insurance Services named Kerstin VanZanten vice president within its employee benefits group. VanZanten is based in Orange County, California. VanZanten’s background includes experience in benefits...
Music and Business Industry Specialist Gravitas Insurance Group in California Launches
Mar 17 2022 // Gravitas Insurance Group, an insurance brokerage in Los Angeles, California, designed exclusively to serve the music and business management communities, was launched this week by John Tomlinson. Tomlinson previously...
M.J. Hall Launches Admitted Cannabis Management Liability in California and Arizona
Mar 16 2022 // M.J. Hall & Co. is now offering directors and officers liability, employment practices liability and fiduciary liability insurance coverages to cannabis companies and their executives through an admitted product in...
People Moves: Woodruff Sawyer in California Makes Neuhalfen Commercial Lines Director; Lopez VP and Corporate Securities Attorney
Mar 15 2022 // Woodruff Sawyer named John Neuhalfen director of operations in commercial lines. Neuhalfen will be based in the San Francisco, California office. He spent 15 years at Chubb, where he was most recently a regional vice...
California Commissioner Wants Insurers to Withdraw Russian Financial Support
Mar 14 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday issued a notice to all insurance companies doing business in the state to review their financial holdings and take immediate steps to identify and divest from any...
ALKEME Acquires JB Wright Insurance Services in California
Mar 14 2022 // ALKEME acquired JB Wright Insurance Services in Chino, California. JB Wright operates in all 50 states, and it specializes in personal and commercial lines. Ladera Ranch, California based ALKEME is backed by GCP Capital...
Investigation Blames California Zip-line Worker Fatality on Safety Failures
Mar 14 2022 // A federal workplace safety investigation found that a 34-year-old worker’s fatal fall might have been prevented had the operator of a Pauma Valley, California, zip-line attraction implemented required safety...
Report: Pilot Fought to Save Helicopter Before Deadly California Crash
Mar 11 2022 // The pilot of a police helicopter desperately tried to keep flying before crashing into the ocean off Southern California last month, killing another officer, investigators said in a preliminary report Wednesday. Two...
California Commissioner OKs Higher Commercial Coverage Limits for FAIR Plan
Mar 10 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved increases in the limits of coverage to the California FAIR Plan Association’s commercial programs offered to businesses, no later than May 1. Lara’s...
California Spraying Company Found Liable for Pesticide Drifts
Mar 10 2022 // A Northern California pesticide spraying company was negligent on at least five occasions its helicopter pilots allowed the toxic chemicals to drift onto neighboring orchards, children playing soccer and a woman standing...
Online University Paying $22M in California Suit for Misleading Students
Mar 10 2022 // A California judge has ordered an online, for-profit university and its former parent company to pay $22 million in penalties, saying they mislead students about the costs of their education, among other things, the...
People Moves: EPIC Adds Lucero in California; CLARA Names Cossio VP of Sales
Mar 9 2022 // EPIC has added Juliet Lucero in Newport Beach, California. Lucero will work with schools to identify the benefits strategies to meet short-term and long-term goals, while establishing programs to address the needs of...
ALKEME Acquires Chergey Insurance in California
Mar 8 2022 // ALKEME acquired Chergey Insurance in Thousand Oaks, California. Chergey Insurance offers services including workers’ compensation, property, general liability, and commercial auto. ALKEME is brokerage operating in 50...
Nevada Utility to Inspect Power Lines Near 2020 Reno Wildfire
Mar 7 2022 // Nevada’s largest utility plans to inspect power lines near a Reno neighborhood where a 2020 wildfire destroyed five homes and damaged two dozen others, a blaze that investigators blamed on arching power lines in gale...
Medical Access in California Workers’ Compensation Examined
Mar 7 2022 // A new California Workers’ Compensation Institute study shows injured workers’ overall access to medical care for their initial treatment remained relatively consistent between 2010 and 2020. CWCI used data from...
Lawsuit: Faulty Equipment Killed California Firefighters
Mar 7 2022 // The families of two California firefighters killed in a 2020 blaze are suing several makers of life-saving equipment for negligence, alleging the devices were defective and caused their loved ones’ deaths, the...
