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Higher Than Usual Number of Items Could be Added at California Surplus Export List Hearing
Oct 16 2019 // Getting items on California’s surplus lines export list is no easy task. Just ask Ben McKay, executive director of the Surplus Line Association of California. McKay can recall only a few coverages that have been...
United Valley Names Rogers Business Development Manager in California
Oct 16 2019 // United Valley Insurance Services Inc. has named Brian J. Rogers business development manager. Rogers has more than 24 years of property/casualty experience. His previous roles include producer, sales leader, sales manager,...
California Fuel Tank Fire Contained, Ending Order for Residents to Take Shelter
Oct 16 2019 // A fire at a San Francisco-area fuel terminal is contained after spewing black smoke high in the air, snarling rush-hour traffic and prompting officials to ask residents to take shelter. Authorities are working to assess...
Western Growers in California Names Reininger Senior Account Manager
Oct 16 2019 // Western Growers Insurance Services has named Marlo Reininger senior account manager. Reininger will work with the WGIS sales team in developing relationships with food and agriculture customers, and identifying risk and...
Willis Towers Watson Adds Lyft’s Hurley in California
Oct 16 2019 // Willis Towers Watson has named Joseph Hurley director or corporate risk and broking. He will work out of Willis Towers Watson’s Silicon Valley tech center in California, where he will lead the firm’s platform...
Great California Shakeout on 30th Anniversary of Massive Loma Prieta Quake
Oct 15 2019 // Millions of Californians are expected to practice how to dropping, covering and holding on when the ground shakes during the Great California ShakeOut on Thursday at 10:17 a.m. The annual earthquake drill will coincide...
California Workers’ Compensation Bureau Testifies on 2020 Advisory Rate Drop
Oct 15 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Monday presented the actuarial basis for an average proposed Jan. 1, 2020 advisory pure premium rate of $1.58, which is 5.4 percent less than the...
Officials: Deadly Los Angeles Wildfire Began Near Base of Electrical Tower
Oct 15 2019 // A deadly wind-driven wildfire that raged across the northern edge of Los Angeles last week started near the base of high-voltage transmission tower owned by electric utility Southern California Edison, company and fire...
California Governor Wants to Hold PG&E Accountable for Mismanaging Power Shutoffs
Oct 15 2019 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Monday that utility Pacific Gas and Electric Co. should be held accountable for mismanaging last week’s widespread power shutoffs and urged the company to provide credits or...
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Adds Armitage in California
Oct 15 2019 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has hired Jim and Taylor Armitage to the Woodland Hills, Calif., office. Both were formerly with Arroyo Insurance. Jim Armitage was a founding member of the Arroyo Insurance group of...
Trident Marine Managers Adds Ramos, Opens California Office
Oct 15 2019 // Trident Marine Managers has named Jeana Ramos director of underwriting. Trident establishes a new office in Lodi, Calif., with the hire of Ramos. Her primary focus will be on commercial marine and excess and surplus...
Californians Bracing for Next Blackout After Massive Outage Ends
Oct 14 2019 // An unprecedented blackout that plunged millions of Californians into the darkness for days is over. And nobody can say when the next will hit. Even as PG&E Corp. declared an end to last week’s shutoffs – a...
California Export List Hearing for Surplus Lines Slated for November
Oct 11 2019 // Parametric earthquake coverage and terrorism coverage are among the potential items on the 2019 Export List hearing being held next month by the California Department of Insurance. Adding a risk or coverage to the export...
California Workers’ Comp Bureau Releases Cost Monitoring Update on Reforms
Oct 11 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California this week issued a prospective estimate of the cost impact of Senate Bill 863, the sweeping workers’ comp reform bill signed into law in 2012. SB...
California Proposes Regulations to Enforce State Privacy Law
Oct 11 2019 // California proposed regulations Thursday that would give consumers more control over how businesses collect and manage their personal information, including requiring a “Do Not Sell My Info” link on...
Food Spoils, Businesses Close as California Power Outages Imposed
Oct 11 2019 // A California dentist canceled dozens of appointments and supermarkets tried to save rotting food on Thursday as electricity was cut to over 600,000 homes and workplaces in a second day of planned power outages to cut...
Wildfire Destroyed Dozens of Homes in Southern California
Oct 11 2019 // Burning trash dumped by a garbage truck caused a fire that by early Friday had destroyed dozens of homes in California’s Riverside County, fire officials said, as wildfires across the state led to power cuts for...
Cannabis Industry: More Regs Will Help Address Vaping Crisis
Oct 10 2019 // In the midst of a vaping crisis that has gripped the nation’s cannabis industry what is needed most right are more regulations. Believe it or not, that was a message from the industry itself. A group of expert...
Burnham Benefits in California Names Spear Vice President
Oct 10 2019 // Irvine, Calif. -based Burnham Benefits has named Margie Spear vice president. Spear has 14 years of industry experience. She previously worked in the benefits department at SeaTech Insurance Agency Inc./Pacific Unified...
More States Now Mandate Employee Training to Prevent Sexual Harassment
Oct 10 2019 // Two years into the #MeToo movement, an unprecedented number of American workers are required to receive mandatory sexual harassment training, the result of a handful of new state regulations aimed at creating safer...
