Latest California Headlines
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CoreLogic in California Taps Noland to Lead Global Insurance Solutions Business
Sep 14 2020 // CoreLogic in Irvine, Calif. has named Mick Noland executive, general manager of insurance solutions. Noland will oversee all CoreLogic solutions for the global property insurance industry. Noland has more than 25 years of...
CalFire: 14K Firefighters on the Line at 29 Major Wildfires
Sep 11 2020 // As critical fire weather conditions subsided, firefighters accomplished full containment on one of the many fires burning in the state, according to the latest report from CalFire. Roughly 14,000 firefighters remain on the...
Wildfires Grow in Oregon as 500K Evacuated, Death Toll Rises
Sep 11 2020 // Around half a million people in Oregon evacuated as dozens of extreme, wind-driven wildfires scorched U.S. West Coast states on Friday, destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 16 people, state and local...
Report Urges Urgent Action from Financial Regulators to Address Climate Change
Sep 10 2020 // Yet another report in a long line of reports is out urging urgent action from financial regulators, including insurance regulators, the Federal Reserve and the Securities Exchange Commission. The report was commissioned by...
Hospitals, Nursing Homes Fail to Separate COVID Patients, Putting Others at Risk
Sep 10 2020 // Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center were on edge as early as March when patients with COVID-19 began to show up in areas of the hospital that were not set aside to care for them. The Centers for Disease Control and...
Explained: How California’s Wildfires Could Spark a Financial Crisis
Sep 10 2020 // Wildfires across the U.S. West are among the sparks from climate change that could ignite a U.S. financial crisis by damaging home values, state tourism and local government budgets, an advisory panel to a U.S. markets...
Liberty Company in California Names Tryon Vice President of Marketing
Sep 10 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Kip Tryon vice president of marketing and branding. Tryon has been involved with Liberty’s outreach marketing efforts and after four years in roles of increasing...
Record 2 Million Acres Burned in California Wildfires
Sep 9 2020 // Wildfires have burned a record 2 million acres in California this year, and the danger for more destruction is so high the U.S. Forest Service announced Monday it was closing all eight national forests in the southern half...
California Self-Storage Firm Fined $250K for Selling Insurance Without License
Sep 8 2020 // The California Department of Insurance fined self-storage company, c, $250,000 for offering and selling more than $2.1 million in insurance products to its renters without an insurance license. SmartStop Asset Management,...
California Burns, Winds Kick up And Power Outages Follow
Sep 8 2020 // New wildfires ravaged California during a scorching Labor Day weekend that saw a dramatic airlift of more than 200 people trapped by flames and ended with the state’s largest utility turning off power to 172,000...
CDI: 3 Charged with Auto Insurance Fraud, Forgery in California
Sep 7 2020 // Three Californians have been charged with multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and forgery for allegedly filing fraudulent insurance claims on a former employee’s policy and intercepting insurance checks to...
California Workers’ Comp Bureau Submits Premium Rate Filing
Sep 7 2020 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has submitted its Jan. 1, 2021, pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance, proposing advisory pure premium rates that are on...
California Launches Remote Insurance Licensing Exams
Sep 7 2020 // The California Department of Insurance has launched remote testing for license examinations, designed to provide more flexibility and opportunities to thousands of insurance license candidates in light of existing COVID-19...
California State Fund Declares 10% 2020 Mid-Year Dividend
Sep 7 2020 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will distribute a roughly $75 million dividend to its qualifying policyholders with policies that took effect between Jan. 1 and Aug. 26. The dividend equals roughly 10%...
Charges May be Brought in California Boat Fire That Killed 34
Sep 4 2020 // Nine days after the scuba boat Conception went down in flames with 34 people trapped below deck in one of the deadliest disasters in California maritime history, a federal grand jury began looking into whether a crime had...
Insurers, Covid-Hit Businesses May Be at Odds Over Interruption Claims for Disasters
Sep 4 2020 // As insurers brace for an expensive natural-disaster season because of storms and wildfires ravaging parts of the United States, the novel coronavirus is giving them an odd financial break. Many companies that were damaged...
California Wants Insurers to Reimburse Costs for Those Displaced by Wildfires
Sep 3 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a notice to all California property/casualty insurance companies urging them to cover additional living expenses for policyholders who remain under mandatory evacuation...
California Wildfire Bills Expire as Legislature Recesses, But One Bill Expected to Return
Sep 2 2020 // Several major wildfire bills were left on the table when the California Legislature ended its session earlier this week, but one bill is expected to make a comeback in some form. Assembly Bill 2167, authored by Assemblyman...
Topa in California Names Tillinghast Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Sep 2 2020 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group has named Tracy Tillinghast vice president and chief information officer. Tillinghast will be responsible for driving the company’s technology strategy and leading the IT...
Report: Workers’ Comp Written Premium in California for First Quarter to be Down 5%
Sep 2 2020 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has released its quarterly experience report, an update on California statewide insurer experience valued as of March 31, 2020. Highlights of the report...
