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Failure of Uber Settlement Opens Door for Wage Claims
Aug 22 2016 // The rejection of a $100 million settlement with drivers comes with plenty of silver linings for Uber Technologies Inc. The gray cloud for the ride-hailing company is that a dozen or so lawsuits that would have been...
‘Star Trek’ Actor’s Family Sues Fiat Chrysler in California over Rollaway Death
Aug 22 2016 // The parents of the late “Star Trek” movie actor Anton Yelchin sued Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV for negligence and product liability in early August over the rollaway crash of a Jeep Grand Cherokee that killed...
Estimated Cost of Southern California Gas Leak Reaches $717M
Aug 22 2016 // Southern California Gas Co. reported that costs related to the massive leak of natural gas from its Aliso Canyon storage facility near Los Angeles have risen to $717 million. The new estimate is contained in the release of...
People – West
Aug 22 2016 // Westlake Village, Calif.-based Aptus Risk Solutions Inc. has named Gary Evans vice president of sales and business development. Evans has 20 years of experience in sales and client service with various risk consulting and...
Judge Nixes $100M Driver Settlement But Uber May Win in End
Aug 19 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. may come out ahead by failing to win court approval of a $100 million settlement with drivers. A San Francisco federal judge rejected the agreement on Thursday, a turn of events that would typically...
Monstrous Southern California Wildfire Displaces More than 80,000
Aug 18 2016 // It tore through canyons and flew over ridges in every direction with astonishing speed, sending flames 80 feet skyward and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. The Southern California wildfire that began as a...
USGS: Small Quakes Jolt Southern California Suburbs
Aug 17 2016 // A small earthquake rattled a populated swath of Southern California but there were no reports of damage or injury. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 3.0 quake hit at 12:17 a.m. Tuesday about a mile from Yorba...
See More Heat, Fire Danger in Store for Southern California
Aug 16 2016 // More high heat and elevated fire danger is in store for much of Southern California, especially interior areas. The National Weather Service says the scenario is due to an upper-level high-pressure system combined with...
Wildfire Destroys More than 100 Homes in Northern California
Aug 15 2016 // A wildfire stuck a Northern California town still recovering from a massive fire nearly a year ago, destroying more than 100 homes and forcing thousands to flee, authorities said Monday. Gusts kicked up flames on Sunday...
U.S. Risk Acquires Continental Marine in California
Aug 12 2016 // U.S. Risk L.L.C. has acquired Continental Risk Insurance Services. Continental Risk is a Lodi, Calif.-based wholesale insurance broker. Continental places marine insurance for both commercial and personal marine-related...
Climate Change And Gisele, The Law of the Land
Aug 11 2016 // When the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Rio highlighted climate change, it wasn’t hard to imagine the buzz – positive and negative – that would be generated. The show included references to rising sea...
California’s PG&E Found Guilty of Obstructing Investigators
Aug 11 2016 // A federal jury found California’s largest utility guilty of violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and then misleading investigators about...
Data Centers’ Use of Water for Cooling Has Investors Concerned
Aug 11 2016 // Data centers, used by governments and large corporations to house their computer systems, have one big environmental problem: They get hot. To keep them from overheating, large data centers can pump hundreds of millions of...
Program Administrator Launches in California
Aug 10 2016 // Prospect General, a newly formed program administrator in La Jolla, Calif., has launched its operations, a website, two products and is currently appointing insurance agents and brokers. President Ryan O’Connor...
Woodruff-Sawyer Names Diebel Account Executive in California
Aug 10 2016 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Patrick Diebel an account executive in surety in the firm’s San Francisco, Calif. office. Diebel will consult on client and surety credit relationships, business and continuity...
California Commissioner Asks Consumer Watchdog to Retract News Release
Aug 10 2016 // California Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday asked Consumer Watchdog to retract a news release about State Farm that he said “includes inaccurate statements and is misleading.” The Consumer Watchdog news...
Questionable Ferrari Loss Leads to Claim Withdrawal
Aug 10 2016 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Shannon Navejas, special investigator 2 with Mercury Insurance, shares how a claim for a 2000 collector edition Ferrari valued at $188,000 went up in smoke as a result of a thorough...
Crystal & Co. Names Borges Director in California
Aug 10 2016 // Shannon Borges has been hired as a director at Crystal & Co. Borges is based in Newport Beach, Calif.. He specializes in employer benefits and executive management insurance coverage, with a focus on identifying and...
Alliant Names Beacock First Vice President in California
Aug 10 2016 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Julie Beacock first vice president within its Newport Beach, Calif.office, Beacock will be part of Alliant’s West Coast employee benefits team and will work with a portfolio...
California Administrative Law Judge Orders State Farm to Refund $85M
Aug 9 2016 // An administrative law judge at the California Department of Insurance found that State Farm overcharged customers $85 million and ordered the carrier to issue refunds and reduce rates. The judge determined that since July...
