Latest California Headlines
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Cal Fire: California Wildfires Have Destroyed 3,500 Structures, Killed 17
Oct 11 2017 // Cal Fire is reporting that 17 people are confirmed to have died in the wildfires throughout the state this week and that at least 3,500 homes and commercial structures have been destroyed by the fast-moving...
Venbrook in California Names Mercer’s Exton Managing Director
Oct 11 2017 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Venbrook has named Lee Exton managing director of employee benefits and total rewards. Exton will oversee all aspects of benefits and total rewards programs. Exton has more than 25 years of human...
California’s $58B Wine Industry Hit by Wildfires
Oct 11 2017 // The fires ravaging Northern California stand to leave the area’s renowned wine industry with damage that will be felt long after the final flames burn out. At least four Napa Valley vineyards have been destroyed or...
California Wildfires Are a ‘Larger Scale Disaster’
Oct 10 2017 // Active wildfires in California have burned an estimated 1,500 homes and commercial structures, scorched more than 115,000 acres and reportedly killed 15 people. Insurers and others who access damage are only beginning to...
Drug Pricing Transparency Law Signed by California Governor
Oct 10 2017 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed state legislation requiring drug companies to report certain price hikes for prescription medicines in a move that could set a model for other states to follow. The law, which aims to...
Wildfires Ravage California’s Iconic Wine Country Region
Oct 10 2017 // Wildfires that tore through northern California’s iconic wine-growing regions have prompted evacuations of more than 20,000 people, killed 11 and damaged some of the most valuable vineyards and wineries in the...
California Governor Jerry Brown Signs Surplus Lines Association Backed Bill
Oct 9 2017 // Assembly Bill 1641, legislation offered and lobbied by the Surplus Line Association of California that is designed to give the California Department of Insurance more flexibility in deciding which coverages to add to the...
Northern California Wildfires Burn Wine Country Homes, Force Evacuations
Oct 9 2017 // Firefighters battled roughly 10 wind-whipped fires across Northern California’s wine country early Monday, triggering a rush by residents to flee the area. Mandatory evacuations were ordered after blazes broke out...
California Department of Insurance Names Yang Deputy Commissioner
Oct 6 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has named Amorette Yang to deputy commissioner of the California Department of Insurance’s community programs and policy initiatives branch. Yang was chief of the branch....
Worldwide Facilities in California Names Answer Financial’s Galaviz CFO
Oct 6 2017 // Worldwide Facilities LLC has named John Galaviz its new chief financial officer. He is based in the firm’s Los Angeles, Calif. headquarters. Galaviz was chief financial officer for Answer Financial prior to joining...
EPIC Names House Broker/Producer in California
Oct 6 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has named Tim House a property/casualty insurance broker/producer in the Fresno, Calif. office. House will be responsible for new business development and the design and management of...
GM Says Driverless Cars Faultless in 6 Accidents in September
Oct 6 2017 // General Motors Co.’s self-driving unit, Cruise Automation, told California regulators its vehicles were involved in six crashes in the state in September, but said none of automated vehicles were responsible. The...
California Division of Workers’ Comp Suspends 8 Medical Providers for Fraud
Oct 5 2017 // The Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended eight more medical providers from participating in California’s workers’ comp system, bringing the total number of providers suspended this year to...
Alera Group Acquires Employer Concept in California
Oct 5 2017 // Alera Group has acquired Employer Concept Insurance Services, based in Irvine, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Employer Concept Insurance Services will join Alera Group through local firm...
USG Promotes O’Brien to Branch Manager in California
Oct 4 2017 // USG has promoted Jenny O’Brien to branch manager in its Irvine, Calif. office. O’Brien will continue to develop USG’s California territory while managing the Irvine branch office. She was formerly a...
The Doctors Co. in California Names Brown Head of Underwriting
Oct 4 2017 // Napa, Calif.-based The Doctors Co. has named Crystal R. Brown senior vice president of underwriting. Brown leads the company’s underwriting operations nationally, reporting directly to Bill Fleming, chief operating...
Worker Safety, Regulation Overload Among Highlights of Drone Expo In California
Oct 3 2017 // Drones may already be impacting the world of workers’ compensation. Fewer workers on communications towers are falling to their deaths, according to Todd Schlekeway, executive director of the National Association of...
Gas Line Explosion in California Desert Destroys Equipment
Oct 3 2017 // Southern California authorities say nobody was hurt when a natural gas line caught fire and exploded, destroying heavy construction equipment in the western Mojave Desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The San...
States May Copy California’s Law to Give Employees Right to File Class Actions
Oct 3 2017 // This week, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether employees have the right to bring class actions against their bosses. With the court’s Republican majority restored this year by President Donald Trump, labor...
Progress Made on California Central Coast Wildfires
Oct 2 2017 // Firefighters made progress on trio of wildfires on California’s Central Coast. Santa Barbara County fire spokesman Mike Eliason said that a marine layer of cooler, wetter air helped fire crews contain 60 percent of...
