Latest California Headlines
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Mitsubishi Blamed In California Nuclear Plant Closure
Jul 19 2013 // Southern California Edison says it is seeking to hold Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Mitsubishi Nuclear Energy Systems liable for defective steam generators that forced the closure of the San Onofre nuclear power...
Minnesota Participating in Insurance Climate Change Survey
Jul 18 2013 // Minnesota has joined California, New York, Connecticut and Washington state in requiring insurers to respond to the Climate Risk Survey adopted in 2009 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners...
California Wholesalers Group Adds Associates
Jul 18 2013 // The California Wholesalers Association is adding four associate members to its ranks. CIWA elected to revise its bylaws and allow for more associate members. The new associate members are: Arthur Davis; Beth Hannon; Colby...
All Risks Taps McDonough in Northern California
Jul 17 2013 // Independent wholesaler All Risks Ltd. named Rick McDonough and his West Coast production team to All Risks’ San Francisco location. In addition to McDonough, the brokerage team leader, joining the office are brokers...
Conn.-Based Insurers Now Required to Participate in NAIC Climate Risk Surveys
Jul 17 2013 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Leonardi today announced that Connecticut-based insurance companies will now be required to complete the annual Climate Risk Survey that was initially adopted in 2009 as a...
California Governments Seek $1B In Lead Paint Cleanup
Jul 17 2013 // Ten California cities and counties are suing leading paint manufacturers, seeking to force them to remove lead paint from millions of homes at a cost of $1 billion. The San Jose Mercury News reported that the trial...
Georgia’s Ink Underwriting Acquires California’s Pioneer Programs
Jul 16 2013 // Newly-formed Ink Underwriting in Kennesaw, Georgia, said it has acquired Pioneer Programs Insurance Solutions, a Pasadena, California-based niche insurance program administrator for the construction and long term care...
Hub Names Viesha Senior Vice President in Northern California
Jul 16 2013 // Hub International Insurance Services named Viesha Treadwell senior vice president of their San Francisco Commercial Division. Treadwell will be responsible for business development and sales. Treadwell and her team will be...
Fraud Fear Raised In California’s Health Exchange
Jul 15 2013 // Consumer groups are worried that California’s uninsured could fall victim to fraud, identity theft or other crimes by some of the very people who are supposed to help them. More than 21,000 enrollment counselors will...
‘SharkNado’ Impact on Los Angeles $100B!
Jul 12 2013 // It was a doozy. Flying, biting killer sharks literally whipped into a frenzy by freak tornadoes wreaked havoc on Los Angelenos. The catastrophe played out on the Syfy Channel on Thursday night, lighting up Twitter as the...
Leavitt Group to Buy United Valley; a Collective 150 Agencies in West
Jul 12 2013 // United Valley Insurance Services and Leavitt Group Enterprises have agreed to a merger, giving the two firms a collective 150 insurance agencies and counting under one owner. The deal was announced late Friday. Under the...
San Bernardino Bondholder, Insurer Support Bankruptcy Filing
Jul 12 2013 // San Bernardino should be allowed to stay in bankruptcy, bond insurer Ambac Assurance Co. and a bondholder owed $50 million said in court papers opposing other creditors’ efforts to strip the California city of...
California Department of Insurance Settles with Zurich over Workers’ Comp
Jul 11 2013 // The California Department of Insurance announced a settlement with Zurich American Insurance Co. and Zurich American Insurance Co. of Illinois over what CDI alleged was improper use of workers’ compensation insurance...
DIR: California’s Alternative Security Program Frees $7.7 Billion
Jul 10 2013 // Christine Baker, director of the Department of Industrial Relations, on Wednesday approved the implementation of the 2013/14 Alternative Security Program, which Baker said frees up $7.7 billion in capital that provides...
One Risk Names Wakamoto-Lee Vice President in California
Jul 10 2013 // Pleasanton, Calif.-based One Risk Group LLC named Sue Wakamoto-Lee vice president in its employee benefits practice. At One Risk Group, Wakamoto-Lee will be responsible for client services and business development. Her...
California Officials Probe Another Farmworker Death
Jul 10 2013 // California workplace safety officials are investigating the death of a second farmworker as possibly heat-related. The state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health said on Monday that a 37-year-old farmworker...
California Fraud Fugitive Caught After Taunting Tweet
Jul 10 2013 // “Catch me if you can.” San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said Wanda Podgurski sent that taunting tweet after skipping trial in January while facing charges of insurance fraud. But then...
Tropical Storm Chantal May Form in Atlantic This Week
Jul 7 2013 // Tropical Storm Chantal strengthened as it moved west across the Atlantic toward the Lesser Antilles, including the islands of Martinique and Saint Lucia, on a track that may take it east of Florida, the U.S. National...
Personal Data Of 2.5M People Compromised In California
Jul 3 2013 // Data breaches put the personal information of 2.5 million people in the California at risk, according to a report released Monday. State Attorney General Kamala Harris released the report showing 131 breaches of consumer...
Southern California Painter Awarded $58M For Bar Beating
Jul 3 2013 // A 43-year-old house painter so badly brain damaged that he cannot speak has been awarded $58 million for a beating in a bar that left him with half his skull permanently bashed in. Antonio Lopez Chaj (CHAI) appeared at a...
