Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Executive Life Insurance Settlement Ends 16 Years of Litigation
Jul 10 2015 // A settlement has been reached with the last remaining defendant in a 16-year-old lawsuit brought by the California Department of Insurance that arose out of the 1991 liquidation of Executive Life Insurance Co. The French...
Uber Fighting California Driver Lawsuit
Jul 10 2015 // Uber is arguing that a lawsuit filed by drivers should not proceed as a class action with the ride service citing statements of support from hundreds of other Uber drivers in a case that could decide whether they are...
California Agents Get Creative to Sell Rideshare Endorsement
Jul 9 2015 // Kathy Lamm, an insurance agent in Costa Mesa, Calif., over the past month has been busy selling a ridesharing endorsement that Farmers Insurance Group introduced in California in late May. Lamm started spreading the word...
Small Number Causing California Worker’s Comp Review Excess
Jul 8 2015 // A small number of physicians are responsible for a large portion of the independent medical review of worker’s compensation cases in California, a process that could be costing payers in excess of $100 million, a...
Google Tests Driverless Cars in Texas City
Jul 8 2015 // Google Inc. has selected Texas as the latest testing site for its self-driving car project, the company announced Tuesday. A modified Lexus SUV has already been seen on Austin roads, with safety drivers on board, according...
Jury Awards Former Southern California Police Dispatcher $315K
Jul 8 2015 // A police dispatcher in Southern California who alleges she was fired for reporting an officer accused of raping and sexually assaulting other dispatchers has been awarded more than $315,000. The Sun reported a jury’s...
Communities Near Southern California Fire at Risk for Floods
Jul 7 2015 // U.S. Forest Service officials say those living in areas around a 49-square-mile wildfire will be at risk for flooding and debris flows long after the flames are extinguished. The Press-Enterprise in Riverside reported that...
California Fire That Threatened Homes is Fully Contained
Jul 6 2015 // A wildfire that might have been started by fireworks and burned more than 320 acres while threatening homes in the California city of Vacaville was 100 percent contained Sunday, officials said. The fire started Saturday...
Lovell Minnick Invests in Worldwide Facilities in California
Jul 6 2015 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Worldwide Facilities LLC has received a large investment from private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners. Following the deal Worldwide Facilities will continue to be majority-owned by its...
7 in California and Washington Charged with 100+ Counts of Auto Insurance Fraud
Jul 6 2015 // Seven people in California and Washington were arrested for allegedly conspiring to defraud eight insurance companies by submitting fraudulent auto insurance claims totaling more than $175,000. Detectives from the...
California Funds Incentives for Earthquake Protection
Jul 6 2015 // When California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the 2015-2016 budget, it included $3 million in funding to expand the Earthquake Brace and Bolt program and clarified that the program’s grants are income-tax exempt at the...
Wildfire Report Shows 2 Million California Homes at Risk as Drought Continues
Jul 6 2015 // A report issued in June shows California has more than 2 million homes at “high” or “extreme” wildfire risk, as the multi-year drought continues to stoke fears among some experts of a potentially...
People – West
Jul 6 2015 // Monterey, Calif.-based Capital Insurance Group has named Andrew Doll vice president and chief actuary. Doll began his insurance career as an actuarial analyst in 1990. Following that he began working for a national...
RIC in California Names Gans Chief Operating Officer
Jul 2 2015 // Santa Rosa, Calif.-based RIC Insurance General Agency Inc. has named Jeff Gans chief operating officer. Gans reports to Gary Kitchen, president and CEO. Gans joined RIC in February 2015 as vice president of business...
Bill in California Responds to Cheerleader Lawsuits
Jul 2 2015 // They boost their teams from the sidelines and promote them by appearing in calendars and at fan events, but some sports cheerleaders say they are still not considered team employees and are paid what amounts to less than...
California Insurance Guarantee Association in Whistleblowing Suit
Jul 2 2015 // Danny Ly, the former controller for the California Insurance Guarantee Association, has filed a lawsuit against the association that charges it fired him after he blew the whistle about alleged financial irregularities,...
New Insurance Rules for California Ridesharing in Effect Today
Jul 1 2015 // A new law requiring that ridesharing drivers and companies have liability insurance coverage during all three periods in which they use the ride-sharing application goes into effect today. The rules are in effect under...
Students Sue University of California Over Sex Assault Claims
Jul 1 2015 // Three current and former University of California, Berkeley students sued the school on Monday, accusing administrators of not doing enough to investigate their sexual assault claims and hand out punishment. The three...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Losses and Expenses for 2014 Rise, Ratios Fall
Jul 1 2015 // Insurer losses and expenses rose in 2014 from the year before but ratios fell, a California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau report on workers’ comp losses and expenses for 2014 shows. The report...
Court Upholds California Broker’s License Revocation for Sexual Misconduct
Jun 30 2015 // The Court of Appeal upheld a decision by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones to revoke the broker-agent license of Wellman Dale Shew, 55, of Fresno. When the California Department of Insurance learned that Shew...
