Latest California Headlines
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GEICO Names Jacobi Assistant Vice President in California
May 1 2015 // GEICO has named Greg Jacobi assistant vice president of underwriting in its San Diego, Calif. regional office. Previously, Jacobi served as assistant vice president of underwriting for the company’s Dallas regional...
Several California Hospitals Given Low Patient Safety Grades
May 1 2015 // Nearly 40 percent of California hospitals earned low ratings for patient safety in a recent national assessment. The Los Angeles Times reported that nonprofit The Leapfrog Group issued a national report card Wednesday that...
Data Stolen on 900 Southern California Mental Health Patients
May 1 2015 // Authorities say personal information on 900 Los Angeles County mental health patients was stolen but it’s unclear if any of it was misused for ID theft. The Los Angeles Times reported documents with Social Security...
California Jury Awards Woman $13M For Asbestos Exposure From Talcum
May 1 2015 // A Los Angeles, Calif. jury has awarded $13 million to a 73-year-old woman who contracted a deadly disease from using asbestos-containing talcum powder manufactured by Colgate-Palmolive Co. The verdict Tuesday in Superior...
ICW Group in California Names Engell Head of Data And Analytics
Apr 30 2015 // San Diego, Calif.-based ICW Group Insurance Cos. in California has named Danny Engell vice president of enterprise strategic planning and analytics. In this newly created position Engell will report to President and CEO...
Small quake Strikes Southern California, No Damage Reports
Apr 30 2015 // A magnitude 3.4 earthquake hit Carson, Calif. early Thursday, but no damage was reported. The quake was widely felt from downtown Los Angeles to Long Beach. It hit at 7:01 a.m. at a depth of 9.1 miles, according to the...
WCRI: Medical Payment Per Claim in California Fell Following Reforms
Apr 30 2015 // The average medical payment per claim for treating injured workers fell by 5 percent in California in 2013, according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. The findings could reflect some early impact...
California’s Brown Wants to Battle Drought With Fine For Water Wasters
Apr 30 2015 // California businesses and residents that waste the most water as the state copes with a drought should face $10,000 fines, Gov. Jerry Brown said, as his administration rejected calls from cities to relax its mandatory...
California Governor’s Aggressive Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
Apr 30 2015 // California would aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 under an ambitious plan announced by Gov. Jerry Brown. The governor’s executive order goes further than a federal proposal also aiming to curb...
Playboy Verdict Leads to Malpractice Suit in California
Apr 30 2015 // Playboy Enterprises Inc. claims Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP committed malpractice by not advising it to settle a retaliatory-firing lawsuit. The case is anything but salacious. Catherine Zulfer initially sued...
Bumble Bee, 2 Managers Charged in Oven Death of California Worker
Apr 29 2015 // Bumble Bee Foods and two managers have been charged by Los Angeles prosecutors with violating safety regulations in the death of a worker who was cooked in an industrial oven with tons of tuna. Jose Melena was performing...
California Suburban Wildfire Sparked by Power Tool
Apr 29 2015 // Los Angeles fire officials say a brush fire in California that that briefly threatened homes in a heavily populated suburban neighborhood was caused by sparks from a power tool that a homeowner was using to clear...
Mud Run in Southern California Canceled Due To Drought
Apr 29 2015 // A popular mud run in Southern California has been canceled because officials don’t want to expend the water during the state’s historic drought. The Riverside Press-Enterprise newspaper reported that it would...
California Pot Dispensary Owners Nabbed For Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 28 2015 // The owners of the Green Cactus Collective Medical Marijuana Dispensary in Palmdale, Calif., were arrested on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud. Tiffany Shorter, 26, and Jabe Satterfield, 77, failed to carry...
Patient Death at California Mental Facility Results in Suit
Apr 28 2015 // A California mental health facility is being sued by the family of Kevin Turner, who was found suffocated in his bed last year. The San Luis Obispo Tribune reported the lawsuit against Atascadero State Hospital says Turner...
Truckers at Major California Port Strike Over Wages
Apr 28 2015 // Truck drivers who haul goods from the busiest port complex in the United States walked off the job Monday in a dispute over their wages and employee status, months after another West Coast labor conflict cost major delays...
Fire at Southern California Business That Killed 3 Under Investigation
Apr 27 2015 // Arson and homicide investigators are looking into the cause of an early morning fire over the weekend at a Southern California business where three people died. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials say...
Hub Names Jellen Managing Director of Entertainment Practice in California
Apr 27 2015 // Hub International Ltd. has named Robert Jellen as managing director of Hub’s Los Angeles, Calif.-based entertainment practice. Hub also added Seth Cohen, vice president, and Dany Rodriguez, account executive, to...
Employers Names Brown Senior Vice President in California
Apr 24 2015 // RENO, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc. has named Lori A. Brown senior vice president and deputy general counsel. Brown is based out of the company’s San Francisco and Walnut Creek, Calif. offices. She is the...
Suit Says Southwest Failed in Medical Emergency Over California
Apr 24 2015 // A woman filed a wrongful-death lawsuit this week against Southwest Airlines, claiming crew members mistook her husband’s medical emergency for unruly behavior aboard a California flight and didn’t assist...
