Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
2013 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 14 2013 // JANUARY P/C Insurance Joint Industry Forum Jan 15 Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY Insurance Information Institute www.iii.org 2013 Big ‘I’ Winter Meeting Jan 16-20 The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa,...
Worker’s Comp Reforms, Portable Persistency Top West’s 2012 Headlines
Jan 14 2013 // Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines. Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best...
California Court: Parks Not Liable for Bumper Car Injuries
Jan 14 2013 // Amusement parks are not financially responsible for injuries suffered on bumper cars, the California Supreme Court ruled in an opinion published in January. The high court said people who ride bumper cars under normal...
People – West
Jan 14 2013 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Hali Nielson senior vice president of private client services in its Irvine, Calif., office. Nielson will design, implement and manage personal insurance portfolios for high net...
All Risks, Names Chilimidos Vice President in Northern California
Jan 11 2013 // All Risks Ltd. named Darren Chilimidos vice president casualty broker to the San Francisco, Calif. office. Chilimidos has experience specializing in construction risks of all sizes in all states. Other casualty expertise...
California Wholesalers Fret Over Upcoming Legal Decision
Jan 11 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 on Friday. The three-day...
California Insurance Chief Criticizes Anthem Rate Hike
Jan 10 2013 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones called Anthem Blue Cross’ proposed rate hike for some of its small-group members is unreasonable, but the insurer says the increase reflects the rising cost of health...
California Lawsuit Says Jailers Ignored Inmate Vomiting Blood
Jan 9 2013 // The family of a California man who bled to death in the Sacramento County jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming jailers didn’t help the inmate even though he was vomiting blood for 12 hours before he...
Barney & Barney Names Four New Principals in California
Jan 8 2013 // San Diego, Calif.-based Barney & Barney LLC named four senior executives as principals of the firm in California. The new owners are: Dianne Wingfield and Todd Bennett, executives in the firm’s employee benefits...
