Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Thousands of Gallons Spilled from California Oil Pipeline
May 25 2016 // Hazardous materials crews are cleaning up as many as 21,000 gallons of oil after a pipeline rupture in Northern California. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Shell Pipeline Co. officials say a response team is...
Family of MLB Star Gwynn Sues Tobacco Companies in California
May 25 2016 // The family of the late baseball star Tony Gwynn, a Hall of Famer who played with the San Diego Padres, has filed a lawsuit in California accusing makers of dipping tobacco of causing his death from cancer by getting him...
Report Calls Out Insurers for Half-a-Trillion Dollars in ‘Dirty Energy’ Investments
May 24 2016 // Leading U.S. insurers have nearly half-a-trillion dollars invested the fossil fuel energy and the electric and gas utility sectors, according to a report out today that urges state insurance regulators and board members of...
Labor Unions Searching for Strategies to Join the Gig Economy
May 24 2016 // The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers trumpeted an agreement reached earlier this month to represent New York Uber drivers, saying it “gives organized labor an opportunity to shape the new...
Herring Named Field Rep in California for Berkshire Hathaway GUARD
May 23 2016 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Cos. has named Traci Herring a senior field representative in Northern California. Herring is responsible for identifying prospects for appointments while providing information about...
Former California Claim Adjuster Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $289K
May 23 2016 // Elizabeth Louise Brown, 48, of Canyon Country, Calif., a former claims adjuster with Explorer Insurance, pleaded guilty to two counts of insurance fraud with a white collar crime enhancement penalty for crafting an...
People – West
May 23 2016 // Leavitt Group in Utah has named Rachael Woolsey vice president of personal lines. Leavitt Group also named Kelly Pareti director of voluntary benefits enrollment. Pareti will work with employee benefits agencies to provide...
Schwarzenegger Used Risk for Good
May 23 2016 // It turns out characters like Conan the Barbarian, the cyborg from Terminator and Dutch the protagonist in the original “Predator” movie, know a thing or two about risk. Definitely the actor who portrayed them...
Earthquake Resilience & The Big One
May 23 2016 // Most people aren’t prepared for the big one. If there was one common theme at a three-day earthquake conference in downtown Long Beach, Calif., that was it. The National Earthquake Conference that took place in early...
CDI: Trucking Company Owners Cheated Workers’ Comp Carrier out of Millions
May 23 2016 // A pair of California trucking company owners were arrested for cheating their workers’ compensation insurer out of millions of dollars. Alvin Shin Chen, 54, and Fiona Xilin Chen, 46, both of La Canada Flintridge,...
California Regulators Reopening Settlement over San Onofre Nuke Plant
May 23 2016 // California regulators said earlier this month they will re-examine a settlement that made consumers responsible for covering some $3.3 billion in costs for closing the San Onofre nuclear power plant. The Public Utilities...
Transportation Department Blames Pipeline Company for California Oil Spill
May 20 2016 // Numerous lapses in safety measures, judgment and planning by Plains All American Pipeline LP led to and worsened a major oil spill last year that fouled miles of shoreline and ocean near Santa Barbara, Calif., the U.S....
California Workers’ Comp Reforms May Have Decreased Medical Payments
May 19 2016 // Elements of California’s workers’ compensation reform law passed in 2012 may have contributed to the state’s 2013 and 2014 decreases in medical payments per workers’ comp claim, according to a study...
Wood Gutmann & Bogart in California Gets New Brand Identity
May 18 2016 // Wood Gutmann & Bogart Insurance Brokers in Tustin, Calif. adopted a new logo and created an insignia as part of new look for the firm. The firm said it worked with employees and partners to develop a brand identity...
Monarch E&S Opens New California Office, Names Five New Employees
May 18 2016 // Monarch E&S Insurance Services has opened a second San Diego County, Calif. office, this one in San Marcos. Five new employees will work out of the office. The employees are: Michelle Mitchell, senior...
Early Alert Quake System Could be Operating in California by 2018
May 18 2016 // California Gov. Jerry Brown will seek state funds to help establish a system that issues alerts that an earthquake is occurring – with an eye on rolling out a limited system by 2018, a newspaper reported this week. The...
Alliant Names Umbright Workers’ Comp Claims Advocate in California
May 18 2016 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Jennifer Umbright to its Sacramento, Calif. office of as a workers’ compensation claims advocate within the company’s Alliant Americas division. Umbright will advise a...
California Health Inspectors Find Infection Control Lapses at 2 L.A. Hospitals
May 17 2016 // California health inspectors dispatched to two Los Angeles hospitals following “superbug” outbreaks involving a hard-to-clean medical scope found numerous safety violations that appeared to put more patients at...
Zenith to Provide Workers’ Comp for California Mutual Water Companies
May 16 2016 // Zenith Insurance Co. will serve as the workers’ compensation reinsurer and service provider for the California water system and water-related entities program recently formed by Alteris Insurance Services, Inc. and...
Did Uber Driver Settlement Lawyer Win at Expense of Drivers?
May 16 2016 // The lawyer who struck a $100 million deal with Uber Technologies Inc. is being accused of greed by some of the drivers covered by the accord who want her bumped. “She has single-handedly stuck a knife in the back of...
