Latest California Headlines
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California Wholesalers Fret Over Upcoming Legal Decision
Jan 28 2013 // A pending legal battle that could expose wholesalers in California to more lawsuits was the centerpiece of talk at the California Insurance Wholesalers Association conference in San Diego in mid-January. During the...
California AG Sues Apparel Makers in China and India over Pirated Software
Jan 24 2013 // California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris filed lawsuits on Thursday against two international apparel manufacturers for gaining an unfair advantage over American companies by using pirated software in the production of...
Atlas Taps Petersen, Perilman and Alaoui in California
Jan 23 2013 // San Diego, Calif.-based Atlas General Insurance Services named Andrew Petersen executive vice president of business development, Brad Perilman as chief financial officer and Taib Alaoui as business development manager for...
Freeman Joins Barney & Barney in Southern California
Jan 23 2013 // San Diego, Calif.-based Barney & Barney LLC named David Freeman director of property/casualty sales. Freeman, who will be based in San Diego, will oversee a team of client executives in San Diego, Orange County,...
Father Sues Central California County Over Death Of Son
Jan 23 2013 // A father suing Fresno County claims social workers in the central California region didn’t protect his 10-year-old son who was killed by his mother’s boyfriend. Trial begins Tuesday in Joseph Hudson’s...
Southern California Molest Victim Sues Boy Scouts Of America
Jan 22 2013 // A man who was sexually abused by a Boy Scouts camp counselor more than a decade ago in San Diego County has sued the organization and his abuser. City News Service says the man, who’s now 29, sued last week. He and...
Report: Insurers Boost California Economy $29.4B
Jan 18 2013 // Insurers directly contributed $29.4 billion to California’s 2010 gross state product, or for 1.6 percent of the state’s GSP, according to the report issued on Friday by the Insurance Information Network of...
California-based NAS Taps Troester As VP of Entertainment and Sports
Jan 18 2013 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has hired Tim Troester as vice president of entertainment and sports. Troester was formerly with US Risk Insurance Group Inc., and Hays Cos. NAS’ Entertainment and Sports...
California Study: Safer If Illegal Immigrants Get Driver’s Licenses
Jan 17 2013 // A California study shows driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants would make streets safer. The Department of Motor Vehicles report says unlicensed drivers in the state, most of them illegal immigrants are nearly...
Leavitt and Konecki Combine in Southern California
Jan 17 2013 // Solana Beach, Calif.-based Konecki Insurance Brokerage has combined operations with the Leavitt Group’s San Diego office. In the combined operations, John Konecki will serve as executive vice president in the...
Chicago Closer to Settling Police Misconduct Suits for $32M
Jan 17 2013 // A Chicago City Council committee has preliminarily approved settlements in two police misconduct cases that would cost the city nearly $33 million, including $22.5 million for a California woman that apparently would be...
Strongwood: Brandeis, Oslie and Dubois to Executive Posts in California
Jan 16 2013 // David Brandeis has been named chief operating officer for Monterey, Calif.-based Strongwood Insurance Holdings, while Larry Oslie was promoted to executive vice president of business development and Laura Dubois was made...
Suit Claims Blue Cross Of California Discriminates In HIV Cases
Jan 16 2013 // Blue Cross of California is being sued over a new program that bars AIDS patients from using local pharmacies to get their medications. The group Consumer Watchdog sued the insurer last week in San Diego on behalf of a...
Keck Joins Woodruff-Sawyer in Northern California
Jan 15 2013 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. named Kristina Keck to the firm’s employee benefits practice as an account executive for retirement plans. Keck will serve as a lead consultant in the capacity of...
EPIC Adds Stanger to Employee Benefits in Southern California
Jan 14 2013 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Janice Stanger an account executive on its Los Angeles benefits consulting team. As an account executive at EPIC, Stanger will provide client service leadership, including overall...
Burnham Benefits Names Vreeland VP in Southern California
Jan 14 2013 // Burnham Benefits Insurance Services named Janet Vreeland as a vice president in Southern California. Vreeland has more than 25 years of experience, and will focus on growing Burnham’s clientele in the Southern...
SCM Names Hernandez Associate VP in Southern California
Jan 14 2013 // SullivanCurtisMonroe Insurance Services LLC named Gabriela Hernandez associate vice president in its benefits division in Southern California. Hernandez joins SCM from Willis. She has 25 years’ experience in the...
Victims’ Relatives Sue Rivera’s Company Over Crash In California
Jan 14 2013 // Relatives of four passengers killed last month with Jenni Rivera in a plane crash in Mexico filed a lawsuit against Rivera’s company alleging the singer was negligent when she hired a faulty Learjet 25. The civil...
Can California’s San Andreas Break At Once? Study Says Maybe
Jan 14 2013 // A new study suggests certain earthquake fault segments long thought to be stable may rupture and cause a mega-quake. That’s what happened during the 2011 magnitude-9 quake in Japan that triggered a tsunami and during...
Ship Safety Rules To Be Reconsidered for Bay Bridge in Northern California
Jan 14 2013 // Days after an oil tanker struck a San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge tower, the Coast Guard is calling for reconsideration of rules that allow large ships to sail in fog near the span in Northern California. The San Jose...
