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Man Sentenced to 2 Years for $250K Insurance Fraud Scheme in California
Oct 7 2019 // Kenneth X. Huang, 41, was sentenced last week to two years in federal prison, three years supervised release, and ordered to pay $259,594 in restitution over a reported fraud scheme involving insurance in California. A...
Hub Acquires Assets of California-Based LBE Insurance Services
Oct 7 2019 // HUB International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Chatsworth, Calif.-based LBA Insurance Services Inc. Lior Avishay, president of LBA, and his colleagues will be joining Hub in Los Angeles. Terms of the deal were not...
Retrial for Founder in California Warehouse Fire That Killed 36
Oct 7 2019 // The founder of an artists’ work-live collective in the San Francisco Bay Area where a fast-moving fire trapped and killed 36 partygoers three years ago will be tried again on manslaughter charges, prosecutors said...
Supreme Court Rejects Sempra’s Bid to Recover $379M from 2007 California Wildfire Payouts
Oct 7 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by Sempra Energy’s San Diego Gas & Electric Co to recover $379 million from customers related to damages it was forced to pay out in litigation after the...
Update on Lawsuits Targeting Vaping; Litigation Expected to Grow
Oct 7 2019 // Several deaths and potentially hundreds of illnesses tied to e-cigarettes, which allow users to inhale nicotine vapor, often flavored, without smoking, have been reported by U.S. health agency. Lawsuits on behalf of young...
People & Places
Oct 7 2019 // National Credit and political risk insurance brokerage specialist BPL Global has appointed Donnie DiCarlo as executive vice president. He will be based in New York and is charged with expanding BPL’s client base in...
22 New California Laws Take Aim at Wildfire Danger
Oct 4 2019 // California is adopting nearly two dozen laws aimed at preventing and fighting the devastating wildfires that have charred large swaths of the state in recent years and killed scores of people. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom...
AssuredPartners Acquires Tutton Insurance Services in California
Oct 2 2019 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired Tutton Insurance Services Inc. in Santa Ana, Calif. The team of 57 will remain under the operational leadership of owner Bill Tutton. Tutton Insurance Services provides commercial and...
Mercury Paying $41M in Decades-Long Court Battle With California Insurance Department
Oct 2 2019 // Mercury Insurance Co. has agreed to pay more than $41 million to end a two-decade long battle with the California Department of Insurance battle over the Los Angeles-based carrier improperly tacking fees onto auto...
Pep Boys Settles California Environmental Suit for $3.7M
Oct 2 2019 // The Pep Boys auto parts chain will pay $3.7 million to settle allegations that it illegally disposed of used motor oil and other hazardous waste at its California stores. The settlement announced Monday resolves a lawsuit...
Cavignac & Associates in California Adds Sousa to Construction Practice
Oct 1 2019 // San Diego, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates has named Jacquelyn Sousa an account manager for the agency’s construction practice. Sousa’s scope of responsibilities includes evaluating and addressing client...
Tornado, Hail, Snow Sweep Through California
Oct 1 2019 // The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down in a California field as thunderstorms swept through the central part of the state. Cellphone video posted online shows the towering vortex spinning...
Roamnet in California Adds Amorelli as Marketing Manager
Oct 1 2019 // Ontario Calif.-based Roamnet Insurance Marketing has hired Anthony Amorelli III as the new marketing manager. He will reporting to Anthony Amorelli, the firm’s president, and be responsible for new business...
Exam Doesn’t Find Cause of California Dive Boat Fire
Sep 30 2019 // U.S. investigators who examined the burned-out wreckage of a scuba diving boat have not been able to determine what ignited a fire that killed 34 people off the California coast, a law enforcement official said Friday, but...
Study Examines California Workers’ Comp Hospital Inpatient Stays
Sep 30 2019 // The number of California workers’ compensation inpatient hospital stays fell 1.9 percent between 2017 and 2018, for a net decline of nearly 31 percent since 2010, a new study shows. A study from the California...
Former California Insurance Agent Arrested for Grand Theft
Sep 30 2019 // Ex-insurance agent Yolanda De La Torre, 35, of Whittier, Calif., was arrested on Friday on one felony count of grand theft and one felony count of identity theft after allegedly collecting over $13,000 in insurance...
Update on Lawsuits Targeting Vaping; Litigation Expected to Grow
Sep 30 2019 // Several deaths and potentially hundreds of illnesses tied to e-cigarettes, which allow users to inhale nicotine vapor, often flavored, without smoking, have been reported by U.S. health agency. Lawsuits on behalf of young...
Death Toll from Northern California Wildfire Back Down to 85
Sep 26 2019 // The number of those who died in California’s deadliest wildfire is back down to 85 after authorities determined that a bone fragment previously classified as unidentified belongs to a victim named in January. The...
Families of Injured Patients File California Ballot Measure to Raise MICRA
Sep 26 2019 // Several families of inured patients on Thursday filed proposed initiative for the November 2020 ballot to raise California’s medical malpractice cap. The cap is set by the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act,...
C3 Risk & Insurance Services in California Names Milligan Managing Director
Sep 25 2019 // C3 Risk & Insurance Services has named Mike Milligan managing director. Milligan was previously a principal at Barney & Barney. C3 is a California-based, privately-owned insurance brokerage.
