Southern California is overdue for a major earthquake, according to UC Irvine and Arizona State University researchers who have charted temblors along the San Andreas fault stretching back 700 years. The findings, to be published in the Sept. 1 issue …
A new regulation that makes it harder for health insurance companies to drop individual policyholders in California is being challenged in court by an industry trade group. The California Department of Insurance’s new regulations require insurers to investigate the medical …
The Insurance Women of Los Angeles has named Gail McKenzie its Confidence While Communicating (CWC) Speak-Off winner, followed by runner-up Darlene “Chris” Lipka. McKenzie, who is a loan service specialist at the West Hills office of Bank of America, will …
EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage, has added Jeff Denison, Tim Kane and Catherine Zilliox as broker/consultants in its Irvine office. Denison and Kane’s responsibilities will include all aspects of developing and …
Mountain View, Calif.-based Lawson-Hawks Insurance Associates has added Marti Romaneck as vice president and manager of its Commercial Lines Divisionr. “As we continue to expand both organically with the addition of new brokers and account executives and inorganically with agency …
At least 80 Claymont, Delaware residents have joined a damage and personal-injury lawsuit targeting a long-troubled steel recycling plant there, in a case that claims owners failed for years to control “poisonous clouds” of toxic dust. The lawsuit surfaced days …
California’s Sixth District Court of Appeal has affirmed the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board decision in Milpitas Unified School District v. WCAB and Joyce Guzman, allowing physicians to apply any part of the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of …
As expected, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has submitted a pure premium rate filing to the California Insurance Commissioner recommending among other things a 29.6 percent increase in pure premium rates or “claims cost benchmark” effective Jan. …
After 25-plus years at Crescenta Valley Insurance, Marilyn Ginn will be retiring at the end of August. She has held various positions at La Crescenta, Calif.-based CVI over the years, including customer service representative, senior underwriter, sales agent and office …
PacWest Alliance Insurance Services Inc. has welcomed its newest member: Raintree Insurance Agency Inc. Raintree Insurance Agency is a well-established independent insurance agency with offices in San Bernardino and Moreno Valley, Calif. In making the announcement, Tom Powell, president of …
