Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
2 California Customers Sue Subway over Tuna
Feb 1 2021 // Two San Francisco Bay Area residents have sued the fast-food chain Subway alleging that its tuna is “anything but tuna” and calling it “tuna salad” constitutes fraud and false...
Lockton Pacific Names Lattimore in California to Lead Voluntary Benefits
Feb 1 2021 // Lockton Pacific Series has named Lorrinda Lattimore vice president, voluntary benefits. Lattimore is based in Lockton’s Irvine, Calif., office. Lattimore has more than 20 years of experience in leadership, sales and...
Distinguished Programs Adds Arrizabalaga in Southern California
Feb 1 2021 // Distinguished Programs has added George Arrizabalaga to the sales team as a regional sales executive for Southern California. Arrizabalaga will work with agents and brokers throughout Southern California to choose...
Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck Names Thompson Law Partner in California
Jan 29 2021 // Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP has named Allyson K. Thompson an employment litigation partner in its Los Angeles, Calif., office. Thompson provides advice and counsel to companies to manage workplaces and workforces and...
Unlicensed California Agent Fined $20K Following Cease and Desist Order
Jan 28 2021 // Former insurance agent, Karen Marie Dondanville, 53, of Lake Forest, Calif., this week was ordered to pay the California Department of Insurance $20,000 in penalties after a judge’s decision that affirms the cease...
California Passes 103K COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims for AY 2020
Jan 28 2021 // The monthly count of COVID-19 job injury claims reported rose to a record 32,549 cases in December, bringing the total number of COVID-19 claims for accident year 2020 to 103,712, or more than one out of every six...
Hogeboom Looks Back on 46 Years Helping Shape California Insurance Landscape
Jan 28 2021 // Robert W. Hogeboom has quietly been in the background of making and forming insurance laws and regulations for decades – and he’s seen a lot change in California’s insurance landscape in all of that...
Topa Insurance in California Names Kim Controller
Jan 28 2021 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Co. has promoted Jamie Kim to controller and vice president of accounting. Kim will be responsible for representing the company and the finance department on strategic projects,...
California’s State Fund Launches COVID Regulations Resource Center
Jan 27 2021 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has created a free resource center for employers, whether they are policyholders or not, to prepare their businesses for the next phases of COVID-19 reopening and help...
Utility Paying $2B Settlement in Deadly 2018 California Fire
Jan 27 2021 // Southern California Edison will pay $2.2 billion to settle insurance claims from a deadly, destructive wildfire sparked by its equipment in 2018, the utility announced this week. Edison, which acknowledged no wrongdoing,...
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers in California Adds James
Jan 27 2021 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers in Woodland Hills, Calif., has added Jessica James to the firm. James focuses on construction, environmental, professional liability, non-profits, cannabis and lessor’s risk. She...
California Alerts Residents in Burn Areas About Flood And Mudslide Coverage
Jan 26 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is alerting residents to review their current insurance policies in the midst of a forecast of winter weather bringing the possibility of floods, mudslides, debris flows, and...
California May Prioritize Age Before Essential Workers for Vaccine
Jan 26 2021 // Advocates for farmworkers, teachers, grocery store clerks and other essential workers are worried they will have to wait until this summer to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as California considers giving priority to...
Man Pleads Guilty to Deaths of 36 in California Warehouse Fire
Jan 25 2021 // The master tenant of a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse where 36 people perished when a fire ignited during a 2016 dance party pleaded guilty Friday to the deaths, avoiding a second trial after the first ended in a hung...
California Insurance Agents Arraigned in $687K Grand Theft Scheme
Jan 25 2021 // Licensed insurance agents Robert Farmer, 65, of Camarillo, Calif., and Marion Urcan, 67, of Agoura Hills, Calif., were arraigned in mid-January in Los Angeles County Superior Court on multiple counts of grand theft after...
New California Trade Group Targets Illegal Workers’ Comp in Staffing Industry
Jan 25 2021 // The California Staffing Agency Reform Association has been established by staffing industry leaders to “clean up” the worker’s compensation marketplace for staffing. Cal-SARA, a new nonprofit, trade...
New Wave of Virus Claims Hit California Workers’ Comp
Jan 25 2021 // A California Workers’ Compensation Institute analysis of claims reported to the state Division of Workers’ Compensation as of Jan. 11 shows that the number of COVID-19 claims in the California workers’...
California Construction Worker Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 22 2021 // Jose Zepeda, 45, of Fresno, Calif., self-surrendered this week on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and attempted perjury after filing a workers’ compensation insurance claim and allegedly misleading the...
California OKs Using Moderna Vaccine After Illness Reports
Jan 22 2021 // California says it’s safe to resume using a batch of Moderna coronavirus vaccine after some people fell ill and a halt to injections was recommended. The decision frees up more than 300,000 doses to counties, cities...
George Petersen in California Names Five New Principals
Jan 22 2021 // George Petersen Insurance Agency has promoted Joseph Feierabend, Jack Fess, Sean Parsons, Colby Ritch and Mindy Sehon to principals within the agency. The agency now has 20 principals across eight of the agency’s 10...
