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California Windshield Repairer Ordered To Pay Insurer $1.4M
Aug 11 2014 // The owner of a Sonoma County windshield repair business accused in a fraudulent billing scheme has been ordered to pay Allstate Insurance and the state of California more than $1.4 million. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat...
Drought Weakens Links in Supply Chain Metaphor
Aug 8 2014 // The weakest link in the great global economic cog is the gazillion supply chains that bind us all. At one time these chains were an ironic metaphor. Instead of shackling companies, supply chains were providing ever greater...
California Insurance Broker Pays Off Lawsuit With Buckets of Coins
Aug 8 2014 // A California-based insurance broker settled a lawsuit with a Los Angeles man by dropping off buckets full of thousands of quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies, his attorney said. Andres Carrasco, 76, filed a lawsuit in...
Crystal & Co. Makes Four Leadership Appointments in California
Aug 7 2014 // Crystal & Co. has appointed four executives in the firm’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Shawn Ram has joined as executive managing director and western region head leading California operations in San...
California’s Incomplete Prescription for Reducing Climate Risk
Aug 6 2014 // The California Natural Resources Agency has just released its Final Safeguarding California Plan for Reducing Climate Risk. The roughly 350-page plan is designed to provide policymakers with recommendations about how best...
Southern California Sinkhole Blamed on Storms
Aug 6 2014 // Authorities are blaming the weekend storms for a giant sinkhole that’s gaped open on a Southern California street. The sinkhole, estimated at around 15 feet wide and 20 feet deep, opened Monday afternoon in Redlands...
Wildfires Burn Structures, Threaten Homes In California, Oregon, Washington
Aug 5 2014 // Two wildfires that burned or threatened hundreds of homes in Northern California were bearing down on a small town as they plowed through more than 100 square miles of drought-stricken brush, and Tuesday brought a chance...
Wildfires Prompt California Governor to Declare State of Emergency
Aug 4 2014 // A pair of wildfires burning without restraint about 8 miles apart in northeast California became the focus of state and federal firefighters Sunday as authorities reported that one of the blazes had destroyed eight homes...
ICAT Launches a New California Homeowners Earthquake Product
Aug 4 2014 // BOULDER, CO – (August 4, 2014) – ICAT, a leading provider of property insurance to businesses and residences in hurricane and earthquake exposed regions of the United States, is pleased to announce the launch of its...
AP Finds That Wildfire Citations in California Applied Unevenly
Aug 4 2014 // A review by The Associated Press of California government data has found a wide discrepancy in how state and local fire officials apply fines and citations for failing to clear vegetation in areas prone to wildland...
California Workers’ Comp Officials Continue to Praise Reforms
Aug 4 2014 // Touting California’s still-young workers’ compensation reform law as a “pragmatic middle” compromise that seems to be working, two of the top officials responsible for the system talked up some of...
People – West
Aug 4 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has added Andrea Levin as a vice president in its Petaluma, Calif., office. Levin will report to Mike Ryan, property/casualty practice principal in the North Bay. Her responsibilities...
Portable Persistency and the Prop 103 Roadblock
Aug 1 2014 // The emerging need to develop new insurance products to cover California’s Transportation Network Company operators has spurred a reexamination of the nature of Proposition 103’s quasi-constitutional status. In...
Troubled California Refinery Slated for Overhaul
Jul 31 2014 // Leaders of a San Francisco Bay Area city approved a $1 billion upgrade of Chevron’s troubled 1960s-era oil refinery, the largest in Northern California, after the company agreed to safety and piping upgrades and...
UnitedHealth’s $173M Fine May Be Warning to P/C Insurers
Jul 30 2014 // A decision by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones to fine UnitedHealth Group $173.6 million for violations having to do with the Unfair Business Practices Act, the Unfair Insurance Practice Act and unfair claims...
Drone Nearly Blocks Firefighting Planes in California
Jul 30 2014 // A private drone trying to record footage of a Northern California wildfire nearly hindered efforts to attack the flames from the air, but firefighters made enough progress to allow most of the 1,200 people under evacuation...
IFG Companies Names Doyle Managing Director in California
Jul 29 2014 // IFG Cos. named Dennis P. Doyle as managing director in its property department. Doyle will be based in the Los Angeles, Calif. area and will participate in the opening of IFG’s new office in that region. He will help...
California Wildfire Destroys 13 Homes, Hundreds of Homes at Risk
Jul 28 2014 // Firefighters in Northern California made progress Sunday against a wildfire that has destroyed 13 homes and forced hundreds of evacuations in the Sierra Nevada foothills, while a fire near Yosemite National Park that...
Lane Splitting Guidelines Removed by California Highway Patrol
Jul 25 2014 // The California Highway Patrol has taken down safety guidelines for a criticized but legal driving maneuver in which motorcyclists pass stalled traffic by driving between lanes. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that...
Judge Approves NCAA’s $60 Million Video Game Settlement
Jul 25 2014 // The National Collegiate Athletic Association and Electronic Arts Inc. won a judge’s preliminary approval of $60 million in settlements of athletes’ claims that their images were used in video games without...
