Latest California Headlines
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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...
United Valley Insurance Services in California Adds Peck
Jan 22 2021 // United Valley Insurance Services Inc. in Fresno, Calif., has named Donna Peck a marketing consultant. Peck is focused on assisting members on marketing and placing workers’ compensation accounts with the firm’s...
Deal Offers More Financial Services for California Cannabis Firms
Jan 21 2021 // A California cannabis industry group announced Tuesday that it reached an agreement with a state credit union that will provide checking, wire transfers and other banking services for more marijuana companies, helping ease...
Poms & Associates in California Adds Fontelieu and Toland
Jan 21 2021 // Poms & Associates has added Ed Fontelieu and Jason Toland to the commercial insurance production team. Fontelieu and Toland will work with Poms & Associates clients to deliver risk management solutions. Fontelieu...
California COVID-19 Benefits Fraud, Cyber Attack Could Reach $9.8B
Jan 20 2021 // California may have paid out nearly $10 billion in phony coronavirus unemployment claims – more than double the previous estimate – with some of that money going to organized crime in Russia, China and other countries,...
Brown & Riding in California Names Nam CFO
Jan 20 2021 // Brown & Riding has named Harold Nam chief financial officer. Nam joined Brown & Riding in 2008 as a staff accountant. Since joining the firm, he has ascended to positions of increased responsibility. Harold...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Atlas General Insurance Services in California
Jan 19 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired San Diego, Calif.-based Atlas General Holdings LLC, dba Atlas General Insurance Services. Mike Mathews, Charles Lasher and their associates will remain in their current location...
Sierra Specialty in California Names Sunderland Senior Underwriter
Jan 19 2021 // Clovis, Calif.-based Sierra Specialty Insurance Services has added Chris Sunderland as a senior property/casualty underwriter. Sunderland previously co-founded International Property & Casualty Insurance Brokers of...
Bender in California Names Guillen Vice President of Alternative Risk
Jan 18 2021 // Bender Insurance Solutions in Sacramento, Calif., has named Roland Guillen vice president of alternative risk markets to commercial insurance clients. Guillen oversees the growth of the Captive and Alternative Risk Market...
Newfront in California Adds Parker as Employee Benefits Producer
Jan 18 2021 // Newfront Insurance in San Francisco, Calif., has brought Nichole Parker on as a principal and employee benefits producer. Parker joins Newfront from TSM Insurance and Financial Services Inc., where she was heading the...
ISC Acquires California Contractors Insurance Services
Jan 14 2021 // Integrated Specialty Coverages has acquired California Contractors Insurance Services Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sacramento, Calif.-based CCIS has a network of over 70,000 licensed contractors to obtain...
Some Rideshare Drivers Sue Over California Ballot Measure
Jan 14 2021 // Drivers for app-based ride-hailing and delivery services filed a lawsuit Tuesday to overturn a California ballot initiative that makes them independent contractors instead of employees eligible for benefits and job...
