Latest California Headlines
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California Taking Steps to Reopen Businesses, Public Spaces
May 12 2020 // A beach bordering two Southern California counties reopened Monday with some restrictions as parts of the state slowly reopened public spaces and businesses. Seal Beach in northern Orange County allowed running, walking...
Venbrook in California Names Orlando Chief Financial Officer
May 11 2020 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Venbrook Group LLC has named Joseph Orlando chief financial officer. Orlando will assume operational leadership for all of the company’s financial functions including accounting, corporate...
California Governor Warns Three Counties Could Lose Disaster Aid
May 11 2020 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom is warning three counties that they could lose disaster funding if they continue to defy his stay-at-home order. Officials in Yuba, Sutter and Modoc counties have all allowed businesses to...
As Deaths Rise to 20,000, Nursing Homes Seek Immunity from Lawsuits
May 10 2020 // Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s nursing homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with a sweeping lobbying effort to get states to grant them emergency protection...
California Restaurants Have Plan for Reopening with Safeguards
May 8 2020 // California restaurants have drafted a plan to allow the industry to reopen for sit-down dining with an array of safeguards while avoiding possible requirements that customers have their temperature taken and the number of...
Tokio Marine HCC Names Khoury Vice President of Marketing in California
May 8 2020 // Tokio Marine HCC’s cyber and professional lines named Desiree Khoury vice president of marketing and business development. Khoury is based in Encino, Calif. and reports to David Lloyd, the group’s chief...
California Court Overturns Quincy Jones’ Win in Michael Jackson Lawsuit
May 7 2020 // A California appeals court on Tuesday overturned most of a 2017 jury verdict awarding Quincy Jones $9.4 million in royalties and fees from the Michael Jackson estate over the use of Jones-produced Jackson hits in the...
Executive And His Companies to Pay $1.8M to Settle California Harassment Suit
May 7 2020 // A former Northern California business executive and his companies will pay $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit by the state accusing him of sexually harassing a female employee, according to a newspaper report. California...
California Governor Announces Workers’ Comp Presumption for COVID-19
May 6 2020 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced that workers who contract COVID-19 while on the job may be eligible to receive workers’ compensation. The governor signed an executive order that creates a time-limited...
Topa in California Names Day Permanent President and CEO
May 6 2020 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group has named Michael Day president and CEO on a permanent basis. Day has been leading Topa Insurance Group on an interim basis since stepping in for the departing John Donahue, who...
California Lawsuit Alleges 2 Companies Inflated Gas Prices
May 6 2020 // California sued two multinational gasoline trading companies Monday, alleging they ran a scheme that jacked up prices at the pump from 2015 to late 2016. Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the companies took...
Analysts Tally Workers’ Comp Cost of Exposure to COVID-19
May 5 2020 // While the potential cost of relaxing a tenet of the workers’ compensation system to deal with extraordinary circumstances of COVID-19 could top $50 billion, it’s more likely to be one-fifth of that, an analyst...
California Attorney General and City Attorneys Sue Uber, Lyft for Worker Misclassification
May 5 2020 // California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the city attorneys of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco, on Tuesday sued Uber and Lyft for misclassifying their drivers as independent contractors in violation of the...
Mercury General in California Reports 1Q Loss of $139M
May 5 2020 // Mercury General Corp. this week reported a first-quarter loss of $139.2 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. The Los Angeles-based company said it had a loss of $2.51 per share. Earnings,...
California Issues Cease And Desist over Illegal Extended Warranties
May 4 2020 // The California Department of Insurance issued a cease and desist order on Omega Vehicle Services LLC, doing business as Delta Auto Protect, and its controlling manager, Charles Seruya, for allegedly selling illegal vehicle...
PG&E Purging Most of Board in Fallout From Bankruptcy, California Wildfires
May 4 2020 // PG&E Corp. will sweep out three quarters of its board of directors to start with a mostly clean slate when it emerges from a bankruptcy case triggered by deadly wildfires ignited in Northern California by the...
$1.4M to Mother of Homeless Man Killed by Police in California
Apr 29 2020 // A San Francisco Bay Area city has agreed to pay $1.4 million to the mother of a homeless man killed by police after they found him in a residential neighborhood with a gun in his hand. The April 23 vote by the Oakland City...
Lippa Insurance Services in California Names Sage Vice President
Apr 29 2020 // Lippa Insurance Services Inc. in Laguna Niguel, Calif., has named Andrew Sage as vice president of accounting. Sage is a third-generation family member to join the firm. He was previously worked with RJS Insurance...
California Earthquake Authority Named Administrator of Wildfire Fund
Apr 29 2020 // The California Catastrophe Response Council, which oversees the Wildfire Fund, has formally named the California Earthquake Authority the fund’s administrator. The Wildfire Fund was established by the California...
The Doctors Co. in California Names Spadacenta Claims Executive
Apr 28 2020 // The Doctors Co., based in Napa, Calif., has named Marco Spadacenta senior vice president of claims. Spadacenta oversees the claims function nationally of the admitted medical professional liability unit, reporting to...
