Latest California Headlines
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California Commissioner: $160M in Homeowner’s Rate Reductions
Feb 7 2013 // An average of a 12.6 percent insurance rate reductions is in store for California homeowners insured with State Farm General Insurance Co., according to an announcement from California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on...
California Bill Would Force Gun Owners to Buy Insurance
Feb 7 2013 // Democratic lawmakers have proposed legislation that would require California gun owners to buy liability insurance to cover damages or injuries caused by their weapons. Similar bills have been introduced in other states...
Report Suggests Compounders Adapted to California Price Controls
Feb 6 2013 // Think California’s new workers’ compensation reform law addressed just about every aspect of an unwieldy system which, few would argue, desperately needs fixing? Think again. A report on compounding drugs...
McQuillin Joins Navion in Southern California
Feb 5 2013 // Ron McQuillin has joined Navion Insurance Associates as a commercial lines producer. McQuillin will be working out of Navion’s Mission Viejo, Calif. office. McQuillin has been an independent broker since 2006, and he...
California Attorney General Sues BP and ARCO over Gas Stations
Feb 5 2013 // California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has filed a civil lawsuit against BP West Coast Products, BP Products North America Inc. and Atlantic Richfield Company for allegedly violating state laws governing hazardous...
Dealey, Renton Names West President in California
Feb 5 2013 // Oakland, Calif.-based Dealey, Renton & Associates named Morgan West as president. Al Chinn remains as the company’s CEO. West joins DRA from Kibble & Prentice, a USI company, in Seattle, Wash., where he was...
Willis Names Daniels Managing Partner of Northern California
Feb 5 2013 // Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, named Andrew R. Daniels as managing partner of Northern California. The appointment is effective March 18. Daniels will be will be based in San Francisco and will lead...
Chevron Fined $1 Million for California Refinery Fire
Feb 1 2013 // California workplace safety officials have fined Chevron Corp. $1 million in connection with a fire last year at the company’s San Francisco Bay area refinery that sent a cloud of gas and black smoke over residential...
California Department of Insurance: $20M Rate Reduction for Homeowners
Jan 31 2013 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Thursday announced today a 35 percent rate reduction for lender-placed homeowner’s insurance coverage offered by QBE Insurance Corp. The rate reduction will result in an estimated...
CSE Insurance Promotes Schulhofer in California
Jan 31 2013 // The board of directors of CSE Insurance Group approved the promotion of Kelli Schulhofer to senior vice president of field operations and market development. Schulhofer’s promotion is effective Feb 1. She began her...
How Agents Survived a Falling Housing Market
Jan 31 2013 // It has not been easy being an insurance agent specializing in the homebuilders insurance market during one of the worst economic recessions in U.S. history. Survival in the recession meant change and a lot of hard...
Southern California School Leaders Sued Over Teacher Sex Abuse
Jan 31 2013 // The current Los Angeles schools superintendent and five of his predecessors in Southern California have been sued on grounds that they systematically covered up complaints about teacher sex abuse of students over the past...
Crum & Forster Taps Burr as VP of California Workers’ Comp Claims
Jan 31 2013 // Crum & Forster hired George Burr as vice president of California workers’ compensation claims. Burr will manage C&F’s West Coast workers’ compensation claims office located in Orange County,...
Patriot National Names McFadden California Regional Vice President
Jan 29 2013 // Patriot National Insurance Group named Michael McFadden as regional vice president for California. McFadden will oversee all marketing and underwriting responsibilities for California, and will be based at Patriot’s...
EMPLOYERS Names Robertson Medical Director in Southern California
Jan 29 2013 // Reno, Nev.-based EMPLOYERS named Dwight L. Robertson, M.D., medical director. Dr. Robertson will provide physician oversight for the clinical direction of medical services for EMPLOYERS, as well as medical expertise with...
Trial Under Way In Southern California Hip Joint Replacement Suit
Jan 29 2013 // A lawsuit that accuses Johnson & Johnson of knowingly marketing a faulty hip implant that lawyers say left thousands of people with crippling problems or in need of replacement surgeries is underway. The fraud and...
Chevron Paid $10M In Northern California Refinery Blaze
Jan 29 2013 // Chevron Corp. has paid $10 million in claims stemming from the Aug. 6 crude unit fire at its 245,000-barrels-per-day refinery in Richmond, Calif., the company said. So far, 23,900 claims have been made due to the blaze...
Pinnacle Merges with Schumann in Northern California
Jan 28 2013 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Pinnacle Brokers Insurance Solutions Inc. is merging with E M Schumann Risk. The change is effective Feb. 1. Ed Schumann has become part of the ownership and management team at Pinnacle. He will...
People – West
Jan 28 2013 // San Diego, Calif.-based Barney & Barney LLC named four senior executives to principals of the firm in California. The new owners are: Dianne Wingfield and Todd Bennett, executives in the firm’s employee benefits...
Jones, CEA Pay Heed to Northridge Quake Anniversary
Jan 28 2013 // With the anniversary of the Northridge Quake in mid-January, earthquake coverage was on a lot of minds. Jan. 17 marked the 19th Anniversary of an event many Southern Californians well remember. On that day in 1994, the...
