Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Leavitt Group Purchases Golf Insurance Services in California
Nov 14 2013 // The Northern California office of the Leavitt Group has purchased Golf Insurance Services from George Peterson Insurance Agency. Golf Insurance Services, located in Rancho Cordova, Calif., specializes in providing...
Obamacare Banking on Enrollment Surge Near Deadlines
Nov 14 2013 // Almost 1 million people who applied for health care on the government insurance exchanges last month left without choosing a plan, a pipeline of potential customers the Obama administration must persuade to return. While...
J&J Reaches $4 Billion Settlement of Hip-Implant Suits: Sources
Nov 13 2013 // Johnson & Johnson will pay more than $4 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits over its recalled hip implants in the largest settlement of U.S. legal claims for a medical device, three people familiar with the deal...
California Lawmaker Removed from Committees Amid FBI Probe
Nov 13 2013 // California State Sen. Ron Calderon was stripped of his committee assignments Tuesday amid a federal investigation involving allegations that he accepted money in return for promoting certain bills. The Senate Rules...
Report Calls for Prior Approval for All States
Nov 12 2013 // Holding automobile insurance regulation in California as an example, the Consumer Federation of America issued a report on Tuesday showing that auto insurance expenditures in America rose by 43 percent on average over the...
California Company Recalls Prepackaged Salad, Sandwich
Nov 12 2013 // More than 90 tons of ready-to-eat salads and sandwiches by a California catering company are being recalled after 26 people in three states were sickened by a bacterial strain of E. coli linked to its products, federal...
5 Southern California Jail Inmates Awarded $740,000 in Force Suit
Nov 12 2013 // A federal jury has awarded $740,000 to inmates who suffered broken bones when guards put down a Los Angeles County jail protest. City News Service reported five inmates were granted the money in an excessive-force lawsuit....
McDonald-Leavitt Names Stout Vice President in California
Nov 8 2013 // The McDonald-Leavitt Insurance Agency in Santa Rosa, Calif. named Brandon Stout vice president in its national restaurant insurance program. Stout specializes in helping clients with high workers’ compensation risks...
California City Says No To Pamplona-Style Bull Run
Nov 8 2013 // One Southern California city has nixed a Pamplona-style bull running event because of safety concerns. The Riverside Press Enterprise reported Lake Elsinore City Manager Grant Yates said Wednesday he denied an application...
Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Expands BOP Product to California
Nov 8 2013 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies (formerly known as GUARD Insurance Group) has begun offering its business owners policy (BOP) and umbrella coverage in California. The company already has a presence in the...
Sutter To Pay $46M To Settle California Anesthesia Case
Nov 6 2013 // One of the California’s largest hospital chains has agreed to pay $46 million to settle allegations that its method for billing for anesthesia services was false and misleading. The San Francisco Chronicle reported...
California Insurance Broker Sentenced For Scamming Tom Hanks
Nov 6 2013 // A Southern California insurance broker who overcharged Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, hundreds of thousands of dollars has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison. City News Service says Jerry Goldman...
Poms Names Jones Vice President in California
Nov 6 2013 // Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Dan Jones vice president in its West Los Angeles office as. Jones has more than 25 years of experience. He specializes in healthcare reform, health risk management, global...
Leavitt Central Coast Names Perez VP in California
Nov 6 2013 // Leavitt Central Coast Insurance Services named Omar Perez vice president of alternative risk and affinity programs. Perez specializes in risk management and self-funded risk financing alternatives for commercial insurance...
NSM Insurance Group Acquires California Broker ELM
Nov 4 2013 // NSM Insurance Group has acquired Executive Liability Managers Insurance Brokers in California. ELM is a 25-year-old professional liability wholesale insurance brokerage with three offices in California. The acquisition...
Eyeing Affluent Market, Crestbrook Ready to Launch
Nov 4 2013 // Well-to-do residents and their insurance agents can soon look forward to another option when it comes to protecting their assets. Crestbrook Insurance has selected what is essentially a start-up insurance company focusing...
NTSB: 2 Dead BART Workers in California Charge of Own Safety
Nov 4 2013 // National Transportation Safety Board investigators say under Bay Area Rapid Transit rules, the two track workers who were killed in a recent accident were responsible for their own safety. James Southworth, the...
California City’s Bid To Close Sriracha Plant Denied
Nov 1 2013 // A judge has refused to order an immediate halt to production of the internationally popular hot sauce Sriracha at a Southern California factory that local residents say is stinking up their neighborhoods with pepper and...
Insurer Alleges Robotic Surgery Firm Lied About Claims
Nov 1 2013 // Intuitive Surgical Inc., the maker of robotic surgery devices targeted by patient lawsuits, was sued by an insurer alleging the company hid the number of legal claims it might face when buying product liability...
FBI: California Senator Tied up in Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 31 2013 // An FBI investigation shows that state Sen. Ronald Calderon accepted bribes from a hospital executive in Southern California who ran an alleged workers’ compensation scheme, the Al Jazeera America news outlet is...
