Latest California Headlines
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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...
Surplus Lines Pioneer Hall Remembered as Well-Respected Leader
Apr 24 2020 // Michael J. Hall, founder of M.J. Hall & Co. and Golden Bear Insurance Co., was a well-respected leader in the admitted and surplus lines industries. Hall, who was 81, died on Tuesday. He established himself early on as...
California Workers’ Comp Report Shows Written Premium Down 6% in 2019
Apr 23 2020 // Workers’ compensation written premium in California for calendar year 2019 was 6% below that for calendar year 2018, according to an update on California statewide insurer experience valued as of Dec.31, 2019. The...
More States Making Plans to Lift Coronavirus Restrictions
Apr 23 2020 // More states in the U.S. South and Midwest signaled readiness on Wednesday to reopen their economies in hopes the worst of the coronavirus pandemic had passed, but California’s governor held firm to sweeping...
PG&E’s Bankruptcy Plan Heads Toward Approval in California
Apr 22 2020 // California regulators are being advised to approve Pacific Gas & Electric’s plan to emerge from bankruptcy with new controls designed to prevent a recurrence of the utility’s past bad behavior that has...
Families Sue Helicopter Company in California in Kobe Bryant Crash
Apr 22 2020 // Family members of four passengers killed in a helicopter crash with Kobe Bryant and his daughter have joined the NBA star’s widow in filing wrongful death lawsuits against the companies that owned and operated the...
Alera Group Acquires Barkley Risk Management & Insurance in California
Apr 21 2020 // Alera Group has acquired Barkley Risk Management & Insurance in California. The Barkley team will continue serving clients in their existing roles. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Barkley serves clients...
California Workers’ Comp Bureau to Restrict COVID-19 Experience, Payroll in Rating
Apr 21 2020 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has submitted a special regulatory filing to the California Insurance Commissioner with proposals to address the COVID-19 pandemic. The WCIRB governing...
California Details Nursing Homes with COVID-19 Outbreaks
Apr 21 2020 // California has for the first time released details about nursing homes facing coronavirus outbreaks, with three facilities in Los Angeles among the hardest-hit, as the numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths across the state...
Travelers, Insured Law Firm Spar Over Civil Authority Business Income Loss Claim
Apr 21 2020 // Travelers Cos. has gone to federal court in California seeking a declaratory judgment that it is not obligated to pay any business income losses of a law firm it has insured under two business owner policies. Its law firm...
States Easing Path to Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Coronavirus Workers
Apr 21 2020 // Sympathetic state lawmakers and regulators in states both red and blue promise to make COVID-19 a major cost driver for workers’ compensation insurers. The governors of Kentucky, Arkansas, North Dakota and Florida...
California State Fund to Accept All Essential Worker COVID Claims; Adds to Safety Fund
Apr 20 2020 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund on Monday announced another series of actions designed to support policyholders and workers affected by the COVID-19 crisis, including doubling the size of its newly...
4 Ways COVID-19 Will Change Cannabis and Insurance
Apr 20 2020 // One may not need to be able to read the cannabis leaves to divine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cannabis and insurance. Some good guesses from any insurance professional with their foot in the door of a...
