Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Genstar Capital in Northern California Creates Earthquake Insurance Platform
Mar 12 2014 // Mid-market private equity firm Genstar Capital Management LLC has partnered with an insurance industry veteran to create a new platform company, Palomar Insurance Holdings, which will initially serve as a provider of...
Consumer Group Recommends Ways to Mitigate Uninsured Motorists Dilemma
Mar 11 2014 // Most uninsured motorists in the U.S. are responsible, safe drivers who simply cannot afford to purchase liability coverage with their income but who still need to drive for their work, according to a consumer advocacy...
Barney & Barney in Southern California Names Five New Principals
Mar 11 2014 // San Diego, Calif.-based Barney & Barney has promoted five senior executives to principals of the firm. The new principals, all of whom are based in California, are: Sara Bennett, an executive in the property/casualty...
M6.9 Quake Strikes off Northern California Coast
Mar 10 2014 // A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Eureka in Northern California, shaking regions as far away as San Francisco and parts of Oregon, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake, which...
Kasdorf Joins Redwoods-Leavitt in California
Mar 10 2014 // Marla Kasdorf has joined Redwoods-Leavitt in Northern California. Kasdorf will focus on employee benefits, life insurance and health insurance. Her prior insurance experience includes helping seniors with their health and...
Brewing Boom
Mar 10 2014 // Microbrewers Make Their Mark The craft beer industry has been chipping away at the U.S. domestic beer market throughout the past decade. And the pace of growth in this specialty niche is not expected to stop anytime...
Southern California Edison Sued Over $140,000 Pot Power Bill
Mar 10 2014 // Two women are suing Southern California Edison, claiming their electricity was cut off for refusing to pay a nearly $140,000 bill racked up by a marijuana grower. The suit filed in Los Angeles alleges breach of the service...
California High Court Assigns Liability in Liquor Cases
Mar 10 2014 // California’s high court has ruled that hosts who charge admission to parties may be held legally responsible if a drunken underage guest is hurt or injures someone else. The state Supreme Court said in the unanimous...
California Farmers Hire Dowsers to Find Water
Mar 10 2014 // With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches. Practitioners of dowsing use rudimentary...
Former California State Fund Executive Fined for Conflict of Interest
Mar 10 2014 // A former top executive at California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has admitted to charges of a conflict of interest in awarding contacts to a software firm while he was at State Fund, it was made public in...
CWCI and WCIRB: SB 863 Lowered Surgical Center Payments in California
Mar 10 2014 // Average facility fee payments to ambulatory surgery centers fell 26 percent per episode and 28 percent per procedure since fee schedule changes mandated by Senate Bill 863 were adopted last year. That’s according to...
California Almond Farmers Face Tough Choices Amid Drought
Mar 10 2014 // With California’s agricultural heartland entrenched in drought, almond farmers are letting orchards dry up and in some cases making the tough call to have their trees torn out of the ground, leaving behind empty...
People – West
Mar 10 2014 // The Leavitt Group has hired Jim Lineweaver, a client advisor, in its Tacoma, Wash., office. Lineweaver has 25 years of insurance experience. He specializes in large manufacturing risks, forest products, transportation,...
Cost Savings in California Workers’ Comp Reform May Fall Short
Mar 7 2014 // California’s sweeping workers’ compensation reform is working for the most part, but some of the savings may not materialize thanks to pressure on the system, according to Dave Bellusci, executive vice...
Phone Giant AT&T Sued by California Yellow Pages Firm
Mar 7 2014 // A California Yellow Pages company has filed a lawsuit against AT&T in a dispute over phone book advertising. The lawsuit filed by Fresno-based Valley Yellow Pages says a rival phone book run by AT&T is offering...
California Storms Didn’t End Drought, Says Task Force
Mar 5 2014 // The state’s Drought Task Force says two recent storms that washed over drought-stricken California were welcome, but that the state still needs a lot more rain. California Natural Resources Agency Secretary John...
Burnham Names Vilas Vice President in Northern California
Mar 5 2014 // Burnham Benefits Insurance Services Inc. is expanding into the Sacramento area and has named Steve Vilas as vice president. Vilas will spearhead expansion efforts in the region, he will establish a new office in Sacramento...
California Sinkhole Leaves Citizens Unscathed
Mar 4 2014 // Ventura County sheriff’s deputies say Southern California traffic was safely diverted around a 20-foot-wide sinkhole at an Oxnard intersection. The 10-foot-deep hole opened Sunday at Ventura Road and Hemlock Street....
California Farmers Hire Dowsers To Find Water
Mar 3 2014 // With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches. Practitioners of dowsing use rudimentary...
‘Vulnerability’ in California Insurance Exchange
Feb 28 2014 // More than three months after it opened for business, California’s online health insurance marketplace had what federal officials described as a potential security flaw in its computer system and one that had already...
