Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Transit Operator in Northern California OKs $1M Settlement
Feb 2 2017 // Bay Area Rapid Transit has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the agency of violating waste and hazardous-materials laws. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the transit agency agreed to...
2 California School Districts Will Settle Teacher Sex Case for $5M
Feb 2 2017 // Two California school districts will pay most of a roughly $5 million settlement to a girl who was sexually abused by a former high school teacher. Jeremy Monn is serving a seven-year sentence after being convicted in 2015...
As Super Bowl Approaches a Former NBA Player Reflects on Cumulative Injury
Feb 2 2017 // Most of us who sit down with our beverages and snacks to watch one of the biggest events in pro sports on Sunday won’t have things like workers’ compensation and cumulative injury on our minds. Just Brady vs....
PPIB in California Promotes Rogers and Le to Underwriter Posts
Feb 1 2017 // Professional Program Insurance Brokerage of Novato, Calif. has promoted Joanna Rogers and Khanh Le to the position of underwriter. Rogers has been with PPIB for three years learning underwriting and serving as executive...
Research Shows California Homeowners Lack Understanding of Retrofitting
Feb 1 2017 // A new study on California homowners shows a general awareness of earthquakes and other natural hazards, but that those owners did not necessarily take action to mitigate risks, and many didn’t know whether their home...
Homes in California’s Hollywood Hills Hit by Mud, Debris Flow
Feb 1 2017 // The backyard of a Hollywood Hills, Calif. home has crumbled, sending mud and debris down a hill, across a street and into the front yards of two other houses. Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erick Scott says the...
California High Court Gives Insurance Commissioner Vast New Powers
Feb 1 2017 // President Donald Trump’s spate of executive orders has jump-started a national debate about the wisdom of executive edicts, especially those that stray into the area of lawmaking. While presidential orders grab the...
California Utility Ordered to Run Thousands of Ads over Deadly Blast Conviction
Jan 31 2017 // California’s largest utility must pay a $3 million fine and run thousands of TV commercials publicizing its pipeline safety violations as punishment for its criminal convictions in a deadly natural gas explosion in...
Building of $7B Legal Pot Economy Underway in California
Jan 31 2017 // The future of California’s legal marijuana industry is being shaped in a warren of cubicles tucked inside a retired basketball arena, where a garden of paper cannabis leaves sprouts on file cabinets and a burlap sack...
California Surplus Lines Are Now A Bigger Chunk of the Commercial Market
Jan 27 2017 // The phrase “new normal” might be a cliché, but it was too hard for Ben McKay, executive director of the Surplus Lines Association of California, to avoid using when describing the state’s excess and...
Beazley Adds Life Sciences Underwriter Amis in California
Jan 27 2017 // Beazley has hired life sciences underwriter Marc Amis in its San Francisco, Calif. office. Amis comes from Chubb, where he was a senior life sciences underwriter for the Western region. He was previously a regional...
California Jury Awards $1.25M in School Bathroom Break Suit
Jan 27 2017 // A jury has awarded $1.25 million to a former San Diego, Calif. high schooler who was denied a bathroom break and forced to urinate in a bucket. The girl, then 14, used the bucket in a Patrick Henry High School supply room...
CSAA Insurance Group in California Names Yoo Claims Executive
Jan 27 2017 // Walnut Creek, Calif. CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer, has named Kevin Yoo as the company’s new claims executive. Yoo will lead the claims organization, including four claims operations centers across the country,...
California Judge Denies State Farm’s Request to Delay Rate Reduction Order
Jan 27 2017 // Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal has denied State Farm’s request for a temporary restraining order in an attempt to delay California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ enforcement of his order directing the...
California Homeowner Registration Starts for 2017 Brace + Bolt Program
Jan 26 2017 // The 2017 Earthquake Brace + Bolt program opened registration this week for $6 million in grants for seismic retrofits. This represents a 25 percent increase in funding over last year to help California homeowners protect...
California-Based Sierra Nevada Issues 36-State Recall of Select Beers
Jan 25 2017 // California-based Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. announced a recall on Jan. 22 of certain 12-ounce bottles of its pale ales, IPA’s and other beers after detecting a packaging flaw that could cause a piece of glass to break...
California Insurance Commissioner Prevails in Insurance Industry’s Legal Challenge
Jan 24 2017 // In a 7-0 decision, the California Supreme Court has affirmed the authority of Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones in a legal challenge brought by the insurance industry, the California Department of Insurance...
Intense Storms, Flooding Wallop California
Jan 24 2017 // The tail end of a punishing winter storm system lashed California with thunderstorms and severe winds Monday after breaking rainfall records, washing out roads and whipping up enormous waves. At least four people died and...
Texas Stamping Office: Upward Trend Continues for Surplus Lines
Jan 24 2017 // Overall, 2016 ended on a positive note for the U.S. excess and surplus lines insurance industry, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). Nationally, nearly $26 billion in surplus lines insurance...
Dennis Joins EPIC Insurance in Southern California
Jan 24 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has hired Duane Dennis as a senior consultant and principal in the firm’s Southern California Employee Benefits Consulting Practice. Dennis will be responsible for business...
