Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Business Moves
Mar 5 2012 // Veracity, Stratus Pleasant Grove, Utah-based Veracity Insurance Solutions LLC has acquired Stratus Insurance Services Inc. Of particular interest to Veracity was Stratus’s collective experience in program management....
People
Mar 5 2012 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. has named John Rossetti vice president of the employee benefits group in the firm’s Albuquerque, N.M. office. Rossetti was previously an account...
Smartphone Proof of Insurance Bill for California
Mar 5 2012 // A California legislator has introduced a bill to require auto insurers to issue proof of coverage verification to the mobile electronic devices of insureds if they request it. Assembly Bill 1708, authored by Assemblyman...
States Won’t Oppose Honda Hybrid Settlement
Mar 1 2012 // News sources are reporting that five states that were given a deadline to oppose a class-action settlement between Honda Motor Co. and owners of its cars over fuel efficiency will not do so. The states are California,...
Investigative Unit to Target California’s Serial Labor Law Violators
Feb 29 2012 // California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su’s aim is to send a message to the state’s underground economy. The message is that the principals of companies with shady employment practices, such as those who try to...
Grade Dave Jones, California Insurance Commissioner
Feb 29 2012 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones marked his first full year in office last month by looking back on his and the California Department of Insurance’s accomplishments during 2011. Insurance Journal wants to know from...
California Commissioner Jones Announces Settlement for Earthquake Policyholders
Feb 28 2012 // The California Department of Insurance has settled a noncompliance action against GeoVera Insurance Co. following a 2010 investigation into consumer complaints concerning GeoVera’s underwriting practices. GeoVera...
California Department of Insurance Files Action Against Zurich
Feb 28 2012 // The California Department of Insurance initiated an administrative enforcement action against two insurers – Zurich American Insurance Co. and Zurich American Insurance Co. of Illinois – for using a type of...
Roush Joins B & B in Southern California
Feb 27 2012 // Stephanie Roush has joined Agoura Hills based B & B Premier Insurance Solutions Inc. as an account executive. Roush, who specializes in workers’ compensation and business insurance, joined the B & B after...
$100K Reward in Arson Attack At California Beef Processor
Feb 23 2012 // Fresno County authorities are offering $100,000 for information leading to an arrest in last month’s arson attack California’s biggest beef processor. Sheriff’s officials announced the reward Tuesday. The...
Iowa Judge Orders California Porn Site to Pay $4M In Piracy Case
Feb 22 2012 // A judge has ordered the operators of a popular pornographic website to pay $4 million for copyright infringement to an Iowa-based adult film company – a ruling that should serve as a deterrent to others who pirate...
Grade California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones
Feb 22 2012 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones marked his first full year in office last month by looking back on his and the California Department of Insurance’s accomplishments during 2011. Insurance Journal wants to know from...
Wells Will Determine Groundwater Contamination in Southern California
Feb 22 2012 // Thirty wells are being installed in Burbank and Glendale in an effort to determine the extent of groundwater contamination. Small amounts of cancer-causing chromium 6 left behind by the San Fernando Valley aircraft...
California Legislator Introduces Smartphone Proof of Insurance Bill
Feb 21 2012 // A California legislator has introduced a bill to require auto insurers to issue proof of coverage verification to the mobile electronic devices of insured if they request it. Assembly Bill 1708, authored by Assemblyman...
California Earthquake Authority Kicks off Second Marketing Program for Agents
Feb 21 2012 // The business of selling earthquake insurance to homeowners may have just gotten a bit easier. The California Earthquake Authority has launched its annual “Marketing Value Program,” in which the quasi-private...
Court Upholds Lawsuit Against Northern California Hooters
Feb 21 2012 // A state appeals court has upheld a class-action lawsuit filed by servers at several San Francisco Bay area Hooters restaurants in Northern California. The 1st District Court of Appeal denied a request by the...
Insurance Companies Dodge Billion-Dollar Bullet in California
Feb 21 2012 // Court Limits What Medical Bills Juries Can View Insurance companies, and ultimately California consumers, avoided a windfall sought by the Consumer Attorneys of California to the tune of more than $3 billion dollars per...
5 States May Intervene in California Honda Small Claims Case
Feb 21 2012 // A judge last week granted California and four other states more time to consider objecting to a class-action settlement between Honda Motor Co. and car owners over inflated fuel-efficiency claims about the...
Opening Note: The Right Direction
Feb 20 2012 // The banks are by no means off the hook as a result of the settlement. The recent $25 billion settlement between five of the country’s largest banks, 49 state attorneys general and federal officials over foreclosure...
Opening Note: The Right Direction
Feb 20 2012 // The banks are by no means off the hook as a result of the settlement. The recent $25 billion settlement between five of the country’s largest banks, 49 state attorneys general and federal officials over foreclosure...
