Latest California Headlines
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Frolich Joins Barney & Barney in California
Apr 6 2015 // Barney & Barney Insurance Services LLC has named Carla Frolich a client executive. Frolich will work in the firm’s San Francisco and Walnut Creek, Calif. offices. Barney & Barney’s Bay Area locations...
People – West
Apr 6 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...
California Bill Fixes DMV Addendum Affecting Broker-Agents
Apr 6 2015 // After decades of broker-agents sharing driver motor vehicle records with insurers to underwrite and rate personal and commercial automobile policies, the California Department of Motor Vehicles late last year began...
Facebook Sued by California Woman for Discrimination, Harassment
Apr 6 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 in mid-March in a San Francisco Bay...
NOAA: No Spring Drought Relief for California, Nevada, Oregon
Apr 6 2015 // Californians facing a fourth year of drought conditions — and some other parts of the West – shouldn’t count on any relief in the coming months. In California this doesn’t bode well for chances of a...
IICF Club100 in Hollywood Recognized Insurance Pros for Charity
Apr 6 2015 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s Club100 event at the Avalon Hollywood in Hollywood, Calif., on March 30 drew more than 200 industry professionals to help raise funds for charity. The annual IICF event...
The West Not Yet Fully Won for Ridesharing
Apr 3 2015 // On the heels of last week’s cross-industry compromise on insurance requirements for ride-sharing drivers, and with some legislative sessions drawing to a close, it’s a good time to take a look at where...
Mandatory Water Restrictions Ordered by California Governor
Apr 2 2015 // California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered officials Wednesday to impose statewide mandatory water restrictions for the first time in history as surveyors found the lowest snow level in the Sierra Nevada snowpack in 65 years of...
California Workers’ Comp Committee Votes for Lower Mid-Year Filing
Apr 1 2015 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau Governing Committee voted on Wednesday to authorize the WCIRB to submit a mid-year pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance...
Lumber Liquidators Sued in California Over Formaldehyde Home Test Kits
Apr 1 2015 // Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of supplying consumers with unreliable kits to test for formaldehyde as federal authorities investigate reports the company sold flooring with high levels of the...
NAIC Adopts Ridesharing White Paper for State Policymakers
Mar 31 2015 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners on Tuesday adopted a white paper on insurance coverage for ridesharing that offers several suggestions for how state regulators should deal with insurance...
Experts: California Sex Bias Case Will Embolden Women Despite Verdict
Mar 31 2015 // Observers say a long legal battle over accusations that a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm demeaned women and held them to a different standard than their male colleagues will embolden women in the industry...
California Applicants Attorneys Want Action Based on Workers’ Comp Report
Mar 31 2015 // The California Applicants’ Attorneys Association on Tuesday called for action from Gov. Jerry Brown on reported delays and denials in the treatment of injured workers. CAAA’s call to action is in response to a...
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...
