Latest California Headlines
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California Agent Allegedly Steals $65K from Small Business Owners
May 16 2019 // California Insurance agent Francis Okyere, 67, self-surrendered this week at the Los Angeles County Superior Court after being charged with four felony counts of grand theft. The charges arose from an investigation by the...
California Dioceses Creating Abuse Compensation Program
May 16 2019 // Six Roman Catholic dioceses in California are creating a program to compensate people who were sexually abused by priests as children, in return for them promising not to sue. The program announced Tuesday includes the...
Alera Group Acquires HighRidge Insurance Services in California
May 16 2019 // Alera Group has acquired HighRidge Insurance Services in Westlake Village, Calif. HighRidge will join Alera Group through California firm Capital City Benefits & Insurance Services and will operate under that...
Investigators Blame PG&E Lines for Deadliest Wildfire in California History
May 15 2019 // State fire investigators have determined that transmission lines owned by Pacific Gas & Electric Co caused the deadliest and most destructive wildfire on record in California, a blaze that killed 85 people last year,...
Cavignac & Associates in California Names Sherod Account Executive
May 15 2019 // San Diego, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates has named Natalie Sherod an account executive within its commercial department. Sherod is charged with maintaining relationships with existing clients, handling renewals...
Newfront Insurance in California Names Daoussis Head of Program Innovation
May 15 2019 // Newfront Insurance in San Francisco, Calif. has named Mike Daoussis a principal and head of program innovation. Daoussis will focus on building programs for Newfront. Daoussis has more than 43 years of experience in the...
$2 Billion Verdict Far From End of Roundup Litigation Challenges for Bayer
May 15 2019 // Bayer shares continued to fall on Tuesday after a California jury on Monday awarded more than $2 billion in damages to a couple who alleged that the company’s glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup caused their...
BIG Independent Group Awards 2019 “BIGGIES” at convention
May 15 2019 // Ontario, CA, May 15, 2019 – The BIG Independent Group, a leading association of independent agent and brokers, was pleased to bestow its BIGGIE Awards for the 10th year in a row. The 2019 awards, distributed at the...
Burnham Benefits in California Promotes Tunnell to Partner
May 14 2019 // Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services Inc. has promoted Raymond Tunnell to partner. Tunnell has nearly 30 years of experience in employee benefits consulting. He has been with Burnham Benefits since...
California Commissioner to Hold Hearing on Auto Insurance Groups And Premiums
May 14 2019 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara plans to hold an investigatory hearing into how insurers’ use of occupational, educational, and other groups for setting automobile insurance rates affects insurance...
Woodruff Sawyer Restructures Northern California Management Liability Leadership
May 14 2019 // Woodruff Sawyer announced that Seth Pfalzer and Erin Stephenson have taken new leadership roles in the Northern California management liability practice. Pfalzer has been named Northern California management liability...
California Jury Blames Roundup for Couple’s Cancer, Awards $2 Billion
May 13 2019 // A California jury on Monday awarded more than $2 billion to a couple who claimed Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused their cancer, in the largest U.S. jury verdict to date against the company in...
California May Go Dark This Summer; Most Aren’t Ready
May 13 2019 // A plan by California’s biggest utility to cut power on high-wind days during the onrushing wildfire season could plunge millions of residents into darkness. And the vast majority isn’t ready for it. The plan by...
Unlicensed Insurance Agent in California Gets Jail Time for Theft
May 13 2019 // An unlicensed insurance agent in California has been sentenced in Fresno County Superior Court to 95 days in jail and five years of probation after pleading no contest to grand theft, the state insurance department...
$10B Fund for California Fire Costs May Dry Up by 2030
May 10 2019 // California has for months been weighing the idea of a fund that utilities could dip into when facing crippling costs tied to wildfires. On Wednesday, state lawmakers got a feel for how big that fund would have to...
Shootout with California Insurance Department Yet Another Headache for the NRA
May 10 2019 // Controversy has swirled around the National Rifle Association of late. Infighting that led to the ouster of Oliver North as the group’s president, its tenuous financial landscape and an investigation launched by the...
Insurance Department: Claims from Deadly California Wildfires Top $12B
May 9 2019 // Insurance claims have topped $12 billion for the November wildfires in California, making them the most expensive in state history. The figure released on May 8 by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara covers the fire that...
Judge Tells PG&E’s Board to Tour Wildfire-Ravaged California Town
May 8 2019 // A federal judge has ordered board members of Pacific Gas & Electric to tour the Northern California town of Paradise, which was leveled by a wildfire that may have been caused by the utility’s equipment. The...
Insured Losses from November 2018 California Wildfires Top $12B
May 8 2019 // Insured losses from the most destructive wildfire month in California’s history climbed $614 million in the first three months of the year, pushing total claims over $12 billion as of April, the California Department...
Court Upholds California Department of Insurance $27.5 M Fine Against Mercury
May 8 2019 // A California Court of Appeal upheld a $27.5 million fine the California Department of Insurance issued against Mercury Insurance Co. for charging illegal fees that should have been disclosed as premiums, a violation of...
