Latest California Headlines
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Schinnerer Names Falecki Forest & Logging Practice Leader in California
Jun 3 2015 // Victor O. Schinnerer & Co. has named Steve Falecki vice president and forest and logging practice leader. Falecki will lead Schinnerer’s forest and logging underwriting unit housed in Sacramento, Calif. He will...
Alliant Insurance Services Names Strassner Managing Director in California
Jun 2 2015 // Alliant Insurance Services has named Jeffrey Strassner a managing director in surety in its construction services group. Strassner is based in the Los Angeles, Calif. office. He is charged with expanding the commercial...
California Bill Would Intercept Insurance Claims to Fund Child Support
Jun 1 2015 // California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would intercept more insurance payments and use them to pay beneficiaries’ overdue child support. About a quarter of insurance companies now voluntarily participate in...
Small Earthquake Rattles Southern California Desert
Jun 1 2015 // The U.S. Geological Survey says a light earthquake struck Southern California on Sunday morning. The magnitude 4.1 quake occurred at 6:02 a.m. Sunday at a depth of about 7 miles. The quake was located about 7 miles...
California Man Who Lost Eye to Taser Sues Police For $25M
Jun 1 2015 // A 31-year-old man has filed a $25 million lawsuit against a California police department, saying he lost his left eye after Fairfield police used a Taser gun on him. Jerome Hill stated in his complaint that police hit him...
Family Sues Southern California Gym Over Dad’s Heart Attack
Jun 1 2015 // A Los Angeles gym is facing a lawsuit from the three kids of a man who had a heart attack and died while working out. Marc Palotay’s son and two daughters filed the lawsuit in May seeking automatic defibrillator...
Beer Bikes Bill Advances in California Legislature
Jun 1 2015 // California lawmakers have advanced a bill that would allow so-called beer bikes to operate on streets, but leaves cities to decide if alcohol is allowed on board. The Senate in late May unanimously passed the bill by Sen....
California Court Says Staffing Agencies Can’t Self-Insure Workers’ Comp
Jun 1 2015 // A California Court of Appeals has upheld the state’s decision to exclude temporary staffing agencies from self-insuring for workers’ compensation, a ruling that upholds one of the provisions in the...
Burns & Wilcox Brokerage Taps Olson in California
May 28 2015 // Burns & Wilcox Brokerage has named Karl Olson vice president and professional liability regional practice leader in its San Francisco team. Olson will be responsible for delivering professional liability brokerage...
NAS Launches Residential Care Facilities Program in California
May 28 2015 // NAS Insurance has launched a professional and general liability insurance program for owners of residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs). The coverage is designed to help California RCFE owners comply with the...
2 California Men Nabbed for $1.4M Mobile Phone Insurance Scam
May 28 2015 // Jason Kwon, 32, of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., and David Chang, 32, of Burbank face 41 felony counts of insurance fraud, grand theft and identity theft for allegedly submitting fraudulent claims totaling $1.3 million to...
Sirius XM to Face Class Action in Turtles Copyright Suit
May 28 2015 // A U.S. judge in California allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed on Wednesday against satellite-radio company Sirius XM Holdings Inc over the payment of royalties for songs produced before 1972, in a case that is being...
First Major California Insurer to Offer Ridesharing Endorsement
May 27 2015 // Farmers will become the first large California insurer to start offering a ridesharing insurance product on Thursday. In an announcement made at the Los Angeles office of California Department of Insurance today,...
California Sandwich Maker Recalls 213,000 Pounds of Meat
May 27 2015 // Fast-food restaurant Lee’s Sandwiches has recalled 213,000 pounds of meat because it bore unauthorized United States Department of Agriculture marks of inspection, despite having not been inspected properly. The...
California Man Accused of Insurance Inspection Invoice Scam Nabbed
May 26 2015 // A California man was arrested in Arizona on charges that he scammed hundreds of people in three states in a fire insurance inspection scheme. Robert Musich, 46, was being held on bond following his arrest in Lake Havasu...
More Than 7,700 Gallons of Oil Sopped Up from California Coast
May 22 2015 // More than 7,700 gallons of oil has been raked, skimmed and vacuumed from a spill that stretched across 9 miles of California coast, just a fraction of the sticky, stinking goo that escaped from a broken pipeline, officials...
Swarm of Small Quakes Shake Southern California Desert
May 22 2015 // A swarm of small earthquakes have struck a sparsely populated area of the Southern California desert, but there were no reports of any damages or injuries. The first, a magnitude-4.0 quake, struck at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday at...
EPIC in California Names Lamison Director of Benefits Technology
May 21 2015 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Myesha Lamison director of benefits technology as a part of EPIC’s employer services platform team. Lamison will be based in EPIC’s San...
Cleanup Continues for Oil Pipeline Spill Along Southern California Coast
May 21 2015 // California Governor Jerry Brown declared an emergency in Santa Barbara County after a Plains All American Pipeline LP oil conduit leaked as much as 2,500 barrels of crude along the state’s southern coastline. About...
Northern California Children’s Home Hit With Abuse Lawsuit
May 20 2015 // A group of former foster children alleging abuses at the Valley of the Moon Children’s Home in Northern California dating back to 20 years ago has filed a lawsuit against the facility. The lawsuit was filed earlier...
