Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
‘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...
Lien Fees Working Out in California Workers’ Comp
Jul 2 2013 // Jason Molnar makes a living deep in the trenches of workers’ compensation battles in California, so you’d think when there was a no show from an opponent at an official lien hearing that he’d be relieved...
California’s Low Cost Auto Insurance Program Reduces Rates
Jul 2 2013 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) is reducing rates for the California Low Cost Auto Insurance Program (CLCA) for the second year in a row. With annual premiums starting between $226 and $338, the program helps...
Corelogic in Southern California Buying Marshall & Swift/Boeckh
Jul 2 2013 // Real estate data provider CoreLogic is buying Marshall & Swift/Boeckh and DataQuick Information Solutions for $661 million, helping to broaden its property/casualty insurance services and add to its existing property...
Cardoso Joins the Leavitt Group in Northern California
Jul 1 2013 // The Leavitt Group’s Concord, Calif. office named Paul Cardoso as an account executive in the employee benefits division. Cardoso comes has a background in sales and has worked for various Fortune 500 companies,...
Monarch Names McLeod Vice President in Southern California
Jul 1 2013 // La Crescenta, Calif.-based Monarch E & S Insurance named Stefanie McLeod assistant vice president of personal lines heading up the personal liability division. McLeod has been with Monarch for nearly 11 years. Before...
Marni Wood Joins iUnlimited Investigative Services as a California Senior Claims Consultant
Jul 1 2013 // Sacramento, CA, 7/1/13 – iUnlimited announced today that Marni Wood joined the iUnlimited Investigative Services team serving the Northern California area out of their Sacramento office as an experienced Investigations...
Study: California Low-Wage Workers Cheated Of Awards
Jun 28 2013 // A new study says thousands of low-paid California workers were cheated out of money they won against employers who broke the law. The report, to be released Thursday, says many companies escaped judgment by dissolving and...
Mom Sues Monster Over Teen’s Death in California
Jun 27 2013 // The mother of a teenager who died from cardiac arrhythmia last year is blaming his death on Corona, Calif.-based Monster Beverage Corp., alleging in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that his death was caused by habitually drinking...
Car Thefts Up for First Time in Years
Jun 26 2013 // U.S. auto thefts probably rose in 2012 after eight straight years of declines as criminals took advantage of California’s budget cuts and reduced police forces, an insurance-industry group said. Thefts rose 1.3...
