Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Calif. Workers’ Comp Reform Law at ‘Halftime’
Oct 8 2012 // Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles to look at California’s workers’ compensation reform law in detail and what must be done to implement that law by Jan. 1, 2013. More articles in...
Business Moves – West
Oct 8 2012 // InsureZone, MSI Fort Worth, Texas-based InsureZone announced it has acquired Denver-based MSI Group, with agencies in 20 states. The purchase adds 63 agencies to InsureZone’s network/cluster program. MSI Group...
Calling Workers’ Comp Experts
Oct 8 2012 // Workers’ compensation reform has arrived — or is arriving to be more accurate — in California. When Gov. Jerry Brown last month signed Senate Bill 863, which is designed to increase disability benefits for...
Tax Group Sues to Block Calif. Firefighting Fee
Oct 7 2012 // A taxpayer group, joined by plaintiffs throughout California, has filed a lawsuit seeking to block a fee that is being assessed on more than 800,000 property owners to raise money for fire prevention. The Howard Jarvis...
Report: Calif. Workers’ Comp Impacted by Recession, Reform, Medical
Oct 7 2012 // A report out Friday by the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute rates California’s workers’ comp system against 15 other states, and the report details several key improvements to the system that...
Calif. State Fund Board: Drop Rates 7%
Oct 5 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund’s board voted on Friday for a 7 percent decrease in its 2013 rates, a move that reflects State Fund’s anticipated savings from a workers’ compensation...
Troubled Calif. Nuke Plant Aims To Restart Reactor
Oct 5 2012 // The operator of California’s troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant on Thursday proposed to restart one of the facility’s twin reactors after concluding it could be run safely despite damage to scores of tubes...
Father and Daughter in Central Calif. Workers’ Comp. Fraud Must Repay Over $600K
Oct 5 2012 // Jerry Buffington, 69, and Cynthia Russell, 47, have pled guilty in Kern County Superior Court to one count each of workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud and eight counts each of tax evasion and were ordered...
Calif. State Fund May Recommend Workers’ Comp Rate Drop in Days
Oct 4 2012 // Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles to look at California’s workers’ compensation reform law in detail and what must be done to implement that law by Jan. 1, 2013. California’s...
Calif. Jury Awards $10.2M To Dirt Bike Rider For Knee Injury
Oct 4 2012 // A superior court jury in central California has awarded a man $10.2 million in damages that resulted from dirt bike collision in 2007 with another vehicle. Attorneys for Stockton resident Daniel Nixon, 50, say he received...
Best Agency to Work For: West
Oct 4 2012 // This year six agencies in all received top honors as a Best Agency to Work For. The Best Agencies to Work For in 2012 include: Bryan Insurance Agency, Graham, Texas; Meyer & Cook Insurance, Walnut Grove, California;...
SullivanCurtisMonroe Adds Crouch as Vice President In Southern California
Oct 3 2012 // Irvine, Calif.-based SullivanCurtisMonroe Insurance Services LLC named Canaan Crouch as a vice president in its Irvine office. Crouch comes from ACE Environmental, where he was an assistant vice president and northwestern...
Agriculture Pest Targeted In Southern California
Oct 3 2012 // Agriculture officials are targeting crop-destroying Oriental fruit flies in Southern California’s Santa Clarita Valley. Mature Oriental fruit flies were discovered on Sept. 18 and Sept. 19 in various valley locations...
Calif. Rating Bureau Drops Workers’ Comp Advisory Rates
Oct 1 2012 // After a review of a workers’ compensation overhaul bill signed two weeks ago by Gov. Jerry Brown, the Workers’ Compensation Rating Bureau submitted a filing on Monday to lower the pure premium advisory rate for...
Lawsuit Accuses Calif. Company of Sex Harassment
Oct 1 2012 // Federal officials have filed a lawsuit against a California electric company alleging it allowed discrimination and sexual harassment of female employees. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against...
BART Installs Quake Early-Warning System in Northern California
Oct 1 2012 // A new earthquake early-warning system installed by Bay Area Rapid Transit will detect earthquakes precious seconds before the ground starts shaking, allowing trains to be slowed down in an effort to prevent...
Calif.’s Brown Record ‘Solid’ on Insurance Legislation
Sep 28 2012 // Gov. Jerry Brown saw over a dozen bills related in some way to insurance come across his desk, with a bill to approve driverless cars, a bill to overhaul California’s workers’ compensation system among...
Heffernan Taps Peckinpaugh For VP in Southern California
Sep 28 2012 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers named Terri Peckinpaugh to its Santa Ana, Calif. office as vice president of Heffernan Professional Practice Insurance Brokers. Peckinpaugh specializes in lawyer’s professional liability...
Yates Adds Whitehouse and Lopes in Southern California
Sep 27 2012 // Tustin, Calif.-based managing general agent Yates and Associates has added two new producers and has opened a new office in Westlake Village. Caleb Whitehouse is a senior underwriter/broker and Esteban Lopes is an...
Foster Joins Barney & Barney in Northern California
Sep 27 2012 // Barney & Barney LLC named Scott Foster to its San Francisco, Calif. office. Foster will work with a team of Barney & Barney professionals in the San Francisco Bay area, offering commercial property and casualty...
