Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Workers’ Comp Public Self-Insured Med-Only Claims Drop
Dec 11 2020 // Initial data on fiscal year 2019/2020 public self-insured claims experience in the California workers’ compensation system show claim volume fell 6.4% compared with the prior year, but medical-only claims accounted...
Family of Pilot Killed Fighting California Wildfire Sues Aircraft Companies
Dec 11 2020 // The family of a veteran helicopter pilot who died when his aircraft crashed as he was dropping water over a California wildfire filed suit Wednesday against the companies that designed and maintained the aircraft. Michael...
Burnham Benefits in California Acquired by BRP Group
Dec 10 2020 // Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services Inc., Burnham Gibson Wealth Advisors, Inc., and Burnham Risk and Insurance Solutions LLC has been acquired by Baldwyn Krystyn Sherman Partners LLC. Burnham will a...
Hearing on California Export List Covered Record Number of Items
Dec 10 2020 // A dozen doesn’t sound like a lot, but it may be a record in the world of the California Export List. More items were proposed for the list than in recent memory during a California Department of Insurance hearing...
Newfront in California Names State Farm’s De Fazio Field Sales Leader
Dec 9 2020 // Newfront Insurance has added Mic De Fazio as a field sales leader. De Fazio will lead brokers in developing client solutions and continuing the firm’s organic growth. De Fazio will join the sales leadership team. He...
Families of 34 California Dive Boat Fire Victims Advocate
Dec 8 2020 // The snapshots tell the story of a big man with a big, beaming grin. The McIlvain family passes around the pictures, laughing over their son Charlie’s antics captured through the years: Charlie as a youngster camping...
PG&E Rate Hike in California Aimed at Easing Wildfire Risk
Dec 7 2020 // Pacific Gas & Electric’s household customers will be hit with an average rate increase of 8% to help the once-bankrupt utility pay for improvements designed to reduce the risks that its outdated equipment will...
Alera Group Acquires Legacy Risk & Insurance Services in California
Dec 4 2020 // Alera Group has acquired Legacy Risk and Insurance Services LLC in California. Legacy Risk is a provider of property/casualty solutions for commercial insurance and private client service offerings. The Legacy Risk team...
California Workers’ Comp Attorney Arrested for $310K Fraud Scheme
Dec 4 2020 // Moses Luna, 73, of Newport Beach, Calif., was arrested this week on 20 felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly billing 20 separate insurance companies for translation and interpreting services to collect over...
Wind Whips up Wildfire in California Canyons, Residents Flee
Dec 4 2020 // Powerful gusts pushed flames from a wildfire through Southern California canyons on Thursday, one of several blazes that burned near homes and forced residents to flee amid elevated fire risk for most of the region that...
Many Californians Being Left Without Homeowners Insurance Due to Wildfire Risk
Dec 4 2020 // Acquiring home insurance has long been a mundane but necessary chore. In California, for hundreds of thousands of residents, it’s turned into a labyrinthine quest that leaves people with expensive, bare-bones...
United Valley in California Promotes Aguirre and Newland
Dec 4 2020 // Fresno, Calif.-based United Valley Insurance Services Inc. has promoted Monika Aguirre and Elizabeth Newland. Aguirre has been promoted to assistant vice president in member services. She will join the executive team and...
California Dive Boat Captain Indicted in Fire That Killed 34
Dec 3 2020 // The captain of a scuba diving boat that caught fire and sank off the coast of California last year, killing 34 people who were trapped below deck, was indicted Tuesday on federal manslaughter charges for one of the...
California County Paying $10M After Shooting, Paralyzing Man
Dec 3 2020 // A Northern California county has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to settle a lawsuit by a Silicon Valley software engineer who was having a mental health crisis when a deputy shot him, paralyzing him from the waist...
Palomar Holdings in California Names Grant Chief Legal Officer
Dec 3 2020 // La Jolla, Calif.-based Palomar Holdings Inc. has named Angela Grant chief legal officer. Grant will oversee all in-house and corporate counsel duties and will play a prominent role in regulatory, compliance and strategic...
California Roof Company Owner Arraigned In $4M Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Dec 2 2020 // Judy Hein, 71, of Oxnard, Calif., was arraigned on five felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly underreporting payroll for her Simi Valley roofing business by over $4 million, resulting in more than a $2 million...
California Wants Hospitals to Test All Workers for Virus
Dec 2 2020 // California has asked hospitals to ramp up their coronavirus testing amid a surge of new cases, urging them to test health care workers at least once per week while testing all new patients before admitting them. California...
California Will Provide $500M in Virus Aid for Small Businesses
Dec 2 2020 // California will provide temporary tax relief and $500 million in aid to small businesses struggling because of coronavirus outbreak restrictions, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday. The tax measures include a three-month...
TWFG Insurance Acquires Penguin Insurance Services in California
Dec 1 2020 // TWFG Insurance has acquired Penguin Insurance Services in Milpitas, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Penguin is a network of independent brokers, which supports brokers throughout California, Colorado, Nevada,...
California OKs Workers’ Comp Advisory Rates, No Virus Adjustment for Now
Nov 25 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has adopted and issued a revised average advisory pure premium rate, lowering the benchmark to $1.45 per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation insurance, effective...
