Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Calif. Governor Green Lights Driverless Cars
Sep 26 2012 // California took the fast lane to the future on Tuesday when Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law that lets self-driving cars onto public roads. Brown rode to the signing ceremony at Google Inc. headquarters in the passenger seat...
SoCal Fire is Reminder Worst Could be Ahead
Sep 25 2012 // A 4-square-mile wildfire in a rural San Diego County community has destroyed roughly a dozen homes and has left one man dead, a sober reminder the state has a large number of high risk homes and that Southern...
BB&T Taps Robinson as Agency Operations Manager in Calif.
Sep 25 2012 // BB&T Insurance named Andrea Robinson agency operations manager for its Pleasanton, Calif. office. Robinson brings 20 years of experience in the insurance industry to her new role. She has experience at both carrier and...
Poms & Associates Names Boore VP in Northern California
Sep 24 2012 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Scott Boore vice president in the employee benefits and risk services groups in its Northern California office. Boore has more than 20...
N.Y. Court Grants Injunction in Aon, Alliant Employee Poaching Case
Sep 24 2012 // A New York court last week granted a new injunction in the ongoing legal fight between Aon and Alliant Insurance Services over alleged poaching of senior executives. The Supreme Court of the State of New York enjoined...
Judge Lets Wal-Mart Discrimination Case Proceed
Sep 24 2012 // A U.S. judge rejected Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s request to dismiss a gender discrimination case filed in California, but said he would rule later about whether the women plaintiffs had enough evidence to be certified as...
People – West
Sep 24 2012 // Denver, Colo.-based Van Gilder Insurance Corp. named Don Woods its new president. Woods is co-founder and CEO of Community Bankshares Inc. and its subsidiaries. Under Woods, Community Bankshares Inc. grew to over $2...
Report: Wildfires Pose Risk to Three Quarter-Million Western U.S. Homes
Sep 24 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic. CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
Calif. Lawsuit Claims Discrimination by In-N-Out Chain
Sep 24 2012 // A lawsuit filed on behalf of two black men in Oakland, Calif. claims In-N-Out Burger didn’t hire them because of their race and age. The suit filed in Alameda County Superior Court asks a judge to order the...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Reform Law at ‘Halftime’
Sep 20 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. When Gov. Jerry...
Poms Names Windom VP of Risk Management in Southern California
Sep 20 2012 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Jerry Windom vice president in the risk management group of the firm’s Woodland Hills office. Windom advises clients on personnel and...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Reform Dominates Conference
Sep 19 2012 // Senate Bill 863, or the more popular usage “SB 863,” was the phrase at the beginning, end or middle of many-a-conversation during the California Workers’ Compensation & Risk Conference on...
