Rosa Maria Barajas, 68, of Huntington Park, Calif. was arrested for allegedly receiving workers’ compensation benefits of her dead husband. The arrest was made by California Department of Insurance detectives with assistance from the Huntington Park Police Department. Barajas is …
Bliss & Glennon Inc., a leading national managing general agent and surplus lines broker, a division of Fortegra Financial, has purchased the assets of IIW Insurance Services of California Inc. in Dublin Calif. The deal went into effect Sept. 3. …
NFP Property & Casualty Services Inc. has acquired Insurance West Corporation, an independent insurance agency in Simi Valley, Calif. specializing in property/casualty for the entertainment industry. The deal closed on Sept. 4. IWC will be fully integrated into NFP. IWC …
A state task force is mulling a plan that would assign more than 550,000 Colorado homes in wildfire-prone areas a risk rating that would be provided to insurance companies. The task force also discussed plans for a fee on homes …
There was no evidence of an illegal marijuana grow near the spot where a raging wildfire started near Yosemite National Park, a federal forestry official said Wednesday. Investigators have ruled out the illicit activity as a potential cause, ending speculation …
Juliann Sum has been named acting chief of Cal/OSHA. Sum will head the Division of Occupational Safety and Health following the resignation of Ellen Widess. Cal/OSHA is a division of the Department of Industrial Relations. Sum will continue as special …
A workers’ compensation rate hike looks to be in the works for California. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau Actuarial Committee met Wednesday and reviewed the June 30 experience, which showed “significant adverse medical loss development and increasing indemnity claim …
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is appealing denial of disaster assistance from the federal government for the wildfire that killed 19 firefighters and destroyed more than 100 homes in Yarnell in June. The governor on Wednesday said that the uninsured damage …
The family of a 24-year-old woman hit by a truck and killed while riding her bike in San Francisco has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Bay Area food distributor and its truck driver. KGO-TV reported the initial police …
Scientists are just back from a monthlong research cruise in the Pacific Ocean off Washington state, where they were trying to find the stickiest point on a section of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the huge undersea fault that breaks loose …
