Latest California Headlines
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California Gas Leak Follows Years of Lax Regulation of Aging Storage Wells
Jan 25 2016 // Long before a natural gas storage well sprung a disastrous leak near Los Angeles, Calif., utilities and national industry groups were raising alarms about the danger of aging underground storage infrastructure. The leaking...
JLT Specialty Names Hernandez Senior Vice President in California
Jan 25 2016 // JLT Specialty USA has named Cari Hernandez senior vice president for its entertainment and hospitality practice. Hernandez will be based in JLT’s Los Angeles, Calif. office, where she will manage the needs of clients...
Doyle Joins Leavitt Group in Central California
Jan 25 2016 // Salinas, Calif.-based Leavitt Central Coast Insurance Services has hired Deana Doyle as a personal agent. Doyle focuses on insurance for home and auto and is licensed in property/casualty and life and health. Doyle worked...
Expert Sounds off on Legal, Insurance Issues of Self-Driving Cars
Jan 25 2016 // Hilary Rowen, a partner in the law firm of Sedgwick LLP in Sacramento, Calif., for the last three years has been analyzing and following the insurance issues relating to the emergence of autonomous vehicles, particularly...
California Construction Company Owner Nabbed for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 25 2016 // The owner of a Northern California construction firm was arrested in mid-January on nine felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud and tax evasion totaling $187,707 in losses. William Huffman, 47, of...
People – West
Jan 25 2016 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group has promoted Anthony Manzitto to chief operating officer and executive vice president. He was chief underwriting officer. Manzitto will be responsible for underwriting, human...
China’s Insurance Marketplace Explained in California Symposium
Jan 25 2016 // Few people in the world could probably offer the sort of perspective on China’s developing insurance industry as economist Qixiang Sun. Sun is the dean of the school of economics at Peking University, and director of...
The Changing Surplus Lines Landscape
Jan 25 2016 // The changing excess and surplus insurance landscape was an oft discussed topic at a recent California meeting, with experts describing the challenges and opportunities going forward. “The business that we have and...
California Commissioner OKs New insurance Products to Fill Ridesharing Gap
Jan 21 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones approved a new insurance product by USAA designed to close the gap in insurance coverage for drivers driving for all ridesharing companies. The product is now available to...
California Commissioner Orders Changes to FAIR Plan
Jan 21 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones issued an order directing the California Fair Access to Insurance Requirements Plan to make several changes in the wake of last year’s severe fire season. The order...
Britton Gallagher Expands Life Sciences Division in California with Wright
Jan 21 2016 // Britton Gallagher has named Tina Wright an account manager on its life sciences team. Wright will be based in San Diego, Calif. and will focus on developing solutions for issues facing life science clients. Wright has a...
Plan to Burn off Leaking Methane in California Scrapped
Jan 21 2016 // Air quality regulators agreed on Wednesday to scrap a proposal to capture and burn off some of the methane spewing into the air from a subterranean pipeline rupture that has forced thousands of Los Angeles residents from...
EPIC Taps Rappleye as Producer in California
Jan 20 2016 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has hired Cameron Rappleye as a property/casualty insurance broker/producer in the Sacramento, Calif. office. Rappleye will be responsible for new business development and the design and...
Grants Now Available to Strengthen Older California Homes
Jan 20 2016 // California homeowners have until Feb. 20 to apply for up to $3,000 in funding for retrofits to protect their homes from catastrophic earthquake damage. The Earthquake Brace + Bolt program today opened the registration...
Former California Insurance Commissioner, Past NAIC President Barger Dies
Jan 19 2016 // Richards D. Barger, a former insurance commissioner and a former president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, died on Sunday. The cause is not yet known. He was 87. Barger, who went by the name Dick,...
Alliant in California Names Novotnaj Director of Health Informatics
Jan 19 2016 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Kryz Novotnaj vice president and national director of health informatics in its employee benefits group. Novotnaj will be based in the Walnut Creek, Calif. office, and he will lead...
Burnham Benefits in California Names Bergsto Account Manager
Jan 15 2016 // Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services has named Alicia Bergsto an account manager. Prior to Burnham Bergsto was an associate consultant with Health Net Inc., where she worked in partnership with senior...
Weather Service: Tornado Hit Southern California in Last Week’s El Niño Storms
Jan 15 2016 // The National Weather Service says a small tornado touched down in Ventura County, Calif. during last week’s powerful El Niño-driven storms. Meteorologists conducting a storms survey determined the tornado swept...
Exxon Deficiencies Found In California Refinery Blast, Probe Shows
Jan 15 2016 // An explosion at an ExxonMobil oil refinery in California last year could have been prevented if managers had taken into account aging safety equipment and shut down a key, spark-generating part of the refinery before...
Self-Driving Cars Still Need Human Help in California Tests
Jan 14 2016 // Futuristic self-driving cars traveling along California roads have needed plenty of old-fashioned human intervention to stay safe. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles this week released reports filed by seven...
