Latest California Headlines
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Protector Holdings Acquires Oasis South in California
Mar 31 2015 // Protector Holdings, a joint venture of Edgewood Partners Insurance Center and Dowling Capital Partners, has acquired Oasis South Insurance Services in California. With eight locations across California’s San Diego...
After Pao’s Loss, Silicon Valley Facing More Bias Suits
Mar 30 2015 // Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ decisive victory over Ellen Pao’s gender bias suit doesn’t mean Silicon Valley giants are off the hook. More lawsuits alleging gender discrimination, sexual...
Light Rail Train Hits Car in California Partially Derails, 21 Hurt
Mar 30 2015 // A light rail train slammed into a car at a crossing in front of the University of Southern California, seriously injuring the driver and the train’s operator. Nineteen passengers on the train suffered lesser...
California Broker Nabbed for Pocketing More Than $500K From Safety Program
Mar 30 2015 // Arthur Cade, 60, a licensed insurance broker-agent in California, was arrested on three felony counts of grand theft for stealing more than $100,000 from a Los Angeles Unified School District program and more than $400,000...
Woman Loses California Gender-Discrimination Suit
Mar 30 2015 // A jury soundly rejected Ellen Pao’s claims of gender discrimination by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in a case that riveted Silicon Valley for weeks and exposed how women fare in the male-dominated world of...
Tempest Brewing Around California Uninsured Motorist Coverage
Mar 27 2015 // A tempest is brewing around California’s otherwise functional system of uninsured and underinsured automobile insurance. At an informational hearing held in the great Shakespearian tradition of dialogue capped by...
California Senate Approves $1B Water Plan Amid Drought
Mar 26 2015 // The state Senate has approved a $1 billion proposal to speed up spending on water projects in drought-stricken California. The Senate this week voted 35-1 on the package to accelerate infrastructure spending. An...
Suit: Vegas Strip Casinos Hid Resort Fees
Mar 26 2015 // A class action lawsuit filed in a California federal court alleges The Venetian and The Palazzo casino-resorts hid daily resort fees from travelers booking rooms at the Las Vegas Strip properties. The lawsuit filed earlier...
California Company Among Those to Recall Frozen Spinach
Mar 26 2015 // Three organic food companies that use spinach in their food have recalled hundreds of thousands of items over listeria concerns. Organic food company Amy’s Kitchen, in Petaluma, Calif., has voluntarily recalled about...
California, Others Seek Full Funding For West Coast Quake Warning
Mar 26 2015 // Three dozen members of Congress from California, Oregon and Washington are pressing for full funding of a West Coast earthquake early warning system. The group this week sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee...
California Bill Seeks Reports on Water Infrastructure Vulnerability to Quakes
Mar 25 2015 // At the start of a fourth-straight year of drought, California state Sen. Bob Hertzberg has introduced a bill requiring regional water-management officials to report the vulnerability of their water systems to an...
King Insurance in California Names DeGazon Underwriter, Program Manager
Mar 25 2015 // San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based King Insurance has named Andre DeGazon a senior professional liability underwriter and program manager. DeGazon has 20 years of experience. He was formerly a professional liability senior...
Goodwin Named President of Republic Indemnity in California
Mar 25 2015 // Encino, Calif.-based Republic Indemnity Company of America has named Allen Goodwin president. He succeeds Dwayne Marioni, who retired earlier in early March. Goodwin joined the company in 2011 as senior vice president of...
Prop 103’s Authors Argue for Changing Prop 103
Mar 25 2015 // Scottish poets from the 18th Century are rarely credited for their insights into California politics. Yet the architects of Proposition103, California’s 25-year-old attempt to rigidly control prices in the...
Heffernan Names Holmberg Assistant Vice President in California
Mar 24 2015 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has named Seth Holmberg assistant vice president of health benefits in its Walnut Creek, Calif. office. Holmberg will be responsible for business development for the employee benefits...
Officers in California Awarded $4M For Post-Shooting Discrimination
Mar 24 2015 // A jury has awarded a total of $4 million to two Los Angeles, Calif. police officers who sued the department alleging discrimination and retaliation after the shooting of an unarmed autistic man five years ago. The jury...
Two California Insurers Agree to Change Use of Death Master File
Mar 24 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced multi-million dollar settlement agreements with Guardian Life and Pacific Life related to their use of the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File...
Facebook Sued by California Woman Discrimination, Harassment
Mar 23 2015 // A former Facebook employee is suing the company on allegations that she was discriminated against, harassed and belittled during her brief employment there. Chia Hong filed the lawsuit this week in a San Francisco Bay Area...
Judge In California Gender Bias Case Oks Punitive Damages
Mar 23 2015 // A judge in a high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit will allow a former partner at venture firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers to seek punitive damages, adding to the potential pricetag for the firm if it loses...
Business Moves
Mar 23 2015 // Integro, Design Insurance Agency Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has acquired Design Insurance Agency Inc., a specialist brokerage providing professional liability coverage and risk management services...
