Latest California Headlines
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California Imposes New Round of Water Cuts to Deal with Severe Drought
Mar 21 2022 // California’s urban water users and farmers who rely on supplies from state reservoirs will get less than planned this year as fears of a third consecutive dry year become reality, state officials announced. Water...
People Moves: Thaler to Chair California Workers’ Comp Institute Board; Belk, Brady, Hansen, Mathis, Steiner, Zender on Executive Committee
Mar 21 2022 // Sharon Thaler, national director of workers’ compensation field underwriting operations at AF Group/CompWest, has been elected to chair the California Workers’ Compensation Institute board for 2022. Thaler was...
California Spraying Company Found Liable for Pesticide Drifts
Mar 21 2022 // A Northern California pesticide spraying company was negligent on at least five occasions its helicopter pilots allowed the toxic chemicals to drift onto neighboring orchards, children playing soccer and a woman standing...
Medical Access in California Workers’ Compensation Examined
Mar 21 2022 // A California Workers’ Compensation Institute study shows injured worker access to medical care for initial treatment was relatively consistent between 2010 and 2020. CWCI used data from more than 1.5 million job...
Investigation Blames California Zip-line Worker Fatality on Safety Failures
Mar 21 2022 // A federal workplace safety investigation found that a 34-year-old worker’s fatal fall might have been prevented had the operator of a Pauma Valley, California, zip-line attraction implemented required safety...
Jury in California Awards $85M in Death of Man Following Arrest
Mar 18 2022 // A jury has awarded $85 million in the death of a man who was restrained by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies in 2015. The federal jury on Tuesday found for the family in a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit...
California State Fund to Return $55M to Businesses
Mar 17 2022 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund on Thursday announced plans to distribute a roughly $55 million dividend to its qualifying policyholders with policies that took effect between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31,...
ALKEME Acquires VPIS Financial Services in California
Mar 17 2022 // ALKEME acquired VPIS Financial Services in Ladera Ranch, California. VPIS is a financial services firm that specializes in wealth management and corporate retirement services. ALKEME is also based in Ladera Ranch, and is...
Actuaries: Climate Change, WUI Building Led to Worsening Wildfires in U.S. and California
Mar 17 2022 // Increasingly large and dangerous wildfires are being driven by the effects of climate change and more building in the wildland-urban interface, and while that notion may not be entirely new, the scope of the increase laid...
County in California Paying $3.8M in Stun Gun Death
Mar 17 2022 // The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed to pay $3.8 million to the family of a man who died after a sheriff’s deputy shocked him with stun gun seven years ago. Relatives of Brian Pickett alleged in a...
People Moves: Alliant in California Names VanZanten VP in Employee Benefits group; Burns & Wilcox Adds New Associates
Mar 17 2022 // Alliant Insurance Services named Kerstin VanZanten vice president within its employee benefits group. VanZanten is based in Orange County, California. VanZanten’s background includes experience in benefits...
Music and Business Industry Specialist Gravitas Insurance Group in California Launches
Mar 17 2022 // Gravitas Insurance Group, an insurance brokerage in Los Angeles, California, designed exclusively to serve the music and business management communities, was launched this week by John Tomlinson. Tomlinson previously...
M.J. Hall Launches Admitted Cannabis Management Liability in California and Arizona
Mar 16 2022 // M.J. Hall & Co. is now offering directors and officers liability, employment practices liability and fiduciary liability insurance coverages to cannabis companies and their executives through an admitted product in...
People Moves: Woodruff Sawyer in California Makes Neuhalfen Commercial Lines Director; Lopez VP and Corporate Securities Attorney
Mar 15 2022 // Woodruff Sawyer named John Neuhalfen director of operations in commercial lines. Neuhalfen will be based in the San Francisco, California office. He spent 15 years at Chubb, where he was most recently a regional vice...
California Commissioner Wants Insurers to Withdraw Russian Financial Support
Mar 14 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday issued a notice to all insurance companies doing business in the state to review their financial holdings and take immediate steps to identify and divest from any...
ALKEME Acquires JB Wright Insurance Services in California
Mar 14 2022 // ALKEME acquired JB Wright Insurance Services in Chino, California. JB Wright operates in all 50 states, and it specializes in personal and commercial lines. Ladera Ranch, California based ALKEME is backed by GCP Capital...
Investigation Blames California Zip-line Worker Fatality on Safety Failures
Mar 14 2022 // A federal workplace safety investigation found that a 34-year-old worker’s fatal fall might have been prevented had the operator of a Pauma Valley, California, zip-line attraction implemented required safety...
Report: Pilot Fought to Save Helicopter Before Deadly California Crash
Mar 11 2022 // The pilot of a police helicopter desperately tried to keep flying before crashing into the ocean off Southern California last month, killing another officer, investigators said in a preliminary report Wednesday. Two...
California Commissioner OKs Higher Commercial Coverage Limits for FAIR Plan
Mar 10 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved increases in the limits of coverage to the California FAIR Plan Association’s commercial programs offered to businesses, no later than May 1. Lara’s...
California Spraying Company Found Liable for Pesticide Drifts
Mar 10 2022 // A Northern California pesticide spraying company was negligent on at least five occasions its helicopter pilots allowed the toxic chemicals to drift onto neighboring orchards, children playing soccer and a woman standing...
