Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Trittipo Joins Bliss & Glennon in Southern California
Mar 18 2013 // Bliss & Glennon Inc. named John Trittipo assistant vice president in the company’s Redondo Beach, Calif. office. Trittipo is tasked with producing and growing a book of business, primarily comprising general...
Leavitt Group Names Evans, Kelly, Peckinpauch in California
Mar 18 2013 // The Leavitt Group’s Los Angeles office named Amy Evans, James Kelly and Terri Peckinpauch to posts in the agency. Evans is a vice president in the employee benefits division with a focus on middle market clients in...
California Judge Overturns Verdict to ‘Price Is Right’ Model
Mar 15 2013 // A judge has overturned an $8.5 million verdict awarded to a former “Price is Right” model in a pregnancy discrimination case and ruled a new trial is necessary. Judge Kevin Brazile ruled Tuesday that he...
California Senator Proposes 4 a.m Last Call for Alcohol
Mar 15 2013 // Last call at California restaurants, bars and nightclubs could come later under legislation proposed by a state senator from San Francisco. Sen. Mark Leno’s bill would allow cities and counties to petition state...
GJ Sullivan Co. Acquires Network E&S Insurance Brokers’ California Book
Mar 15 2013 // G.J. Sullivan Company Excess & Surplus Lines Brokers has acquired Network E&S Insurance Brokers’ book of California business. David Gorin and Sherri Gust will join GJS E&S, and will operate from...
3 Former Execs Plead Guilty In California Asbestos Case
Mar 14 2013 // Three former executives of a now-defunct nonprofit have been convicted of violating federal asbestos laws when the former Castle Air Force Base in Atwater, Calif. was cleaned up. The Merced Sun-Star reported Rudy Buendia,...
Southern California School District Settles Lewd ‘Tasting Games’ Claims
Mar 14 2013 // The Los Angeles school district will pay millions of dollars to settle claims and lawsuits filed by students and families from an elementary school where a third-grade teacher was accused of spoon-feeding children semen in...
Insurance Weighs in on Working from Home
Mar 13 2013 // Working from home has become a hot topic following Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer’s announced plans in late February to bring telecommuters back into the office, and the issue is being taken up by some insurance firms,...
WBN Owners Conference comes to Northern California
Mar 12 2013 // The Worldwide Broker Network’s Owners Conference in San Francisco from April 17 to 20 is expected to draw 200 industry professionals. The WBN event, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Nob Hill, is part of a tradition of...
Southern California Jury Awards $8.3M In Hip Implant Case
Mar 12 2013 // A jury awarded $8.3 million to a former prison guard who accused Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary of knowingly marketing a faulty hip implant that was later recalled. Jurors found that the ASR XL...
MetLife Moving 2,600 Jobs to North Carolina from Northeast, California
Mar 11 2013 // Insurance giant MetLife Inc. said last week that it will move 2,600 jobs from offices in four Northeast states and California to lower-cost locations in two North Carolina cities, while also getting tax breaks and other...
Scientists Criticize Nuclear Plants Over Safety
Mar 11 2013 // More than one-third of U.S. nuclear power plants suffered safety-related incidents over the past three years, and nuclear regulators and plant operators need to improve inspections to prevent such events, the Union of...
Passing of Torch at CWCI
Mar 11 2013 // Workers’ compensation wonk Alex Swedlow will become the fourth president of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute following the announced retirement of J. Michael Nolan as president of the...
Southern California Hotel Sued Over Corpse in Water
Mar 11 2013 // Two former guests of a Southern California hotel where a 21-year-old woman’s corpse was found floating in a rooftop water tank have sued. A lawsuit was filed in February in Los Angeles Superior Court against the...
People – West
Mar 11 2013 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based CSE Insurance Group President and CEO Pierre Bize announced he will be transitioning out of his current role at the company at the end of 2013. The move comes after 19 years at the helm of CSE....
California Bill Battles Workers’ Comp Claims from Athletes
Mar 11 2013 // A California legislator has introduced a bill that would address a “loophole” in which pro athletes, mostly National Football League players, are getting workers’ compensation benefits despite having...
Jury Nails Firm with $23M in California Nursing Home Death
Mar 8 2013 // A Sacramento Superior Court jury hit Emeritus Corp. with $23 million in punitive damages in the wrongful death and elder abuse lawsuit filed and won by the family of an 82-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease who...
Ex-Southern California Firefighter Sentenced For Fake Workers’ Comp
Mar 8 2013 // Prosecutors say a Los Angeles city firefighter has been sentenced to probation for filing workers’ compensation claims at the same time he was competing in mixed martial arts fighting. The district attorney’s...
Jones on License Fee Hike, Affordable Care Act
Mar 7 2013 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones treaded lightly when discussing a fee increase on insurance licenses to be announced officially next week, but didn’t pull any punches when delivering his thoughts on...
Report Questions Insurer Readiness, Attitudes on Climate Change
Mar 7 2013 // A report out Thursday that details responses to a climate change survey from insurers doing business in California, Washington and New York shows many insurers are prepared to deal with today’s extreme weather...
