Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Climate Change Easy Bet to Be Hot Topic at Insurance Regulators’ Meeting
Mar 31 2016 // Mark down the Climate Change and Global Warming Working Group as the odds-on favorite committee to produce the most interesting chatter during the National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting next week in The...
Alliant Names Dobbs Vice President in Real Estate Group in California
Mar 30 2016 // Real estate specialist Mark Dobbs has joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president within the company’s real estate group. Los Angeles, Calif.-based Dobbs will focus on organizations with portfolios spanning...
Take1 in California Now a Lloyd’s Cover Holder
Mar 29 2016 // Take1 Insurance announced that it is now a cover holder with Lloyd’s of London to provide excess liability coverage capacity of up to an additional $5 million in limits. Minimum rates start at $750 per each million...
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Adds Southern California Aviation Team
Mar 28 2016 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has established a regional aviation insurance team that operates out of the Santa Ana, Calif. office. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions offers a range of aviation insurance products, from physical...
Investor Group Urges California to Delay Retirement Plan
Mar 25 2016 // California should delay action on a proposed state-run retirement savings plan for private-sector employees because it could end up leaving taxpayers on the hook, the Investment Company Institute said in a letter Thursday...
Judge Grants VW More Time for Diesel Fix
Mar 25 2016 // Volkswagen AG was given four more weeks to reach an agreement with regulators for getting 600,000 diesel vehicles off U.S. roads as it faces hundreds of lawsuits for rigging pollution control systems to cheat emissions...
VW May Miss Court Deadline for Diesel Fix with U.S. Regulators
Mar 24 2016 // Volkswagen AG will probably miss a Thursday court deadline to reach a comprehensive agreement with U.S. authorities over its tainted diesel engines, possibly exposing the carmaker to daily fines and other sanctions. While...
ACIC’s Sektnan Named Chair of Civil Justice Association of California
Mar 23 2016 // Association of California Insurance Companies President Mark Sektnan has been named chairman of the board for the Civil Justice Association of California. Sektnan will serve a two-year term. His duties will include...
Thompson Named Iroquois Group General Manager in Southern California
Mar 23 2016 // Bruce Thompson has joined The Iroquois Group as a regional manager in Southern California. His background is in property/casualty, as well as life insurance, and includes experience as a producer, agency owner, and carrier...
California Workers’ Compensation Institute Elects 2016 Board
Mar 22 2016 // Susan Gordon, head of workers’ compensation underwriting at Zurich North America, was elected board chair of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute for 2016. Gordon was elected at CWCI’s 52nd...
CSAA Exec Named California Insurance Guarantee Association Chair
Mar 22 2016 // Jeff Huebner, vice president of treasury for CSAA Insurance Group, has been named chairman of the board of governors for the California Insurance Guarantee Association. Huebner joined CSAA Insurance Group in 2001 as...
Woodruff-Sawyer Taps Richards in Southern California
Mar 22 2016 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Kyle Richards an associate producer in the Southern California office. Richards will develop new client relationships. His specialties include real estate, technology and...
EPIC Names McDonnell Managing Principal in California
Mar 21 2016 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Brian McDonnell a managing principal, and the formation of a national construction specialty group. McDonnell will be based in EPIC’s Concord, Calif. office and report to...
Noonan Named Principal of Cavignac & Associates in California
Mar 21 2016 // Matthew Noonan has been named principal of San Diego, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates. He joins Jeff Cavignac, Jim Schabarum, Scott Bedingfield, Patrick Casinelli and Matthew Slakoff in part ownership of Cavignac...
Farmers CEO Remembers Joplin Tornado at California Gala
Mar 21 2016 // Jeff Dailey, CEO of Farmers Insurance, turned what could have been a mere acceptance speech into a lesson-filled personal account of his first time seeing the devastation wreaked by the May 2011 tornado in Joplin,...
Famed California Seismologist Retiring From USGS
Mar 21 2016 // Seismologist Lucy Jones, the face of earthquake science and safety in Southern California, is retiring from the U.S. Geological Survey. Jones said in a Twitter posting Friday that she’s leaving federal service but...
HOT Markets: Drones, Cyber and More
Mar 21 2016 // Looking for new sales and opportunities in 2016? Here are a few of the top market sectors that just might deliver hot opportunities for agents and brokers in the property/casualty insurance industry this year. Sky’s...
California Bill Would Enable Independent Contractors to Unionize
Mar 21 2016 // A longshot proposal introduced in mid-March would make California the first state to allow rideshare drivers and all other independent contractors to unionize. The legislation came one week after the U.S. Chamber of...
Former California Agent Admits to Embezzling from Clients
Mar 21 2016 // Julie Diane Shinar, 44, of Long Beach, Calif., was convicted of theft by embezzlement in Long Beach Superior Court in early March. Shinar was ordered to serve three years of formal probation and pay $29,158 in restitution...
People – West
Mar 21 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has hired Steve Hall as a property/casualty insurance broker/producer. Hall will be based in EPIC’s Concord, Calif., office and report to Curt Perata, regional director of...
