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Former California Insurance Agent Sentenced for Embezzling Nearly $200K
Jul 26 2021 // Anna Gabriela Garcia, also known as Anna Nuno-Garcia, 48, of Capistrano Beach, Calif., was sentenced in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana after pleading guilty to two felony counts of embezzlement and grand theft...
California’s Largest Wildfire Torches Homes as Blazes Lash West
Jul 26 2021 // Flames racing through rugged terrain in Northern California destroyed multiple homes over the weeked as the state’s largest wildfire intensified and numerous other blazes battered the U.S. West. The Dixie fire, which...
Officials: Lightning Likely Caused 2020 California Forest Fire
Jul 23 2021 // A lightning strike likely ignited a 2020 wildfire in California’s Sierra National Forest, but the U.S. Forest Service said Friday it could not determine an official cause of the fire. September’s Creek Fire...
Bomb Squad Caused Damaging California Fireworks Explosion, Officials Say
Jul 23 2021 // Los Angeles bomb technicians grossly miscalculated the weight of homemade fireworks last month when they detonated them in a containment chamber, likely causing a catastrophic explosion that injured 17 people and rocked a...
PG&E in California’s Will Pay to Bury Power Lines to Prevent Wildfires
Jul 22 2021 // California power company Pacific Gas and Electric said on Wednesday it would bury 10,000 miles of power lines in high-risk fire zones as a safety measure after its equipment caused multiple destructive wildfires over...
People Moves: California Insurance Commissioner Appoints Members to CIGA, COIN Boards
Jul 22 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara made several new appointments, including naming one member to the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan Advisory Committee, one member to the California Insurance Guarantee...
California Commissioner Lowers Workers’ Comp Benchmark
Jul 21 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara lowered the workers’ compensation insurance benchmark rate by 5 cents to $1.41 per $100 of payroll effective Sept. 1. Lara’s decision results in an average...
California Workers’ Comp Report: Private Self-Insured Indemnity Claim Frequency, Paid & Incurred Losses Spiked in 2020
Jul 21 2021 // Workers’ comp claim frequency among California’s private self-insured employers rose in 2020, fueled by a big increase in the incidence of indemnity claims, offsetting a decline in medical-only claim frequency,...
California Healthcare Provider Paying $37M to Settle Whistleblower Lawsuits
Jul 21 2021 // Southern California-based Prime Healthcare Services and two of its doctors will pay $37.5 million to settle whistleblower lawsuits that claimed the hospital system paid kickbacks to one of the physicians and bought his...
PG&E Says Equipment Possibly Linked to Big California Wildfire
Jul 21 2021 // Pacific Gas & Electric reported to California utility regulators that its equipment may have been involved in the start of a fire burning in the Sierra Nevada that is threatening hundreds of homes. PG&E said in a...
Judge Upholds California Insurance Commissioner’s Order to Expand FAIR Plan Coverage
Jul 20 2021 // A Superior Court judge has upheld the California Insurance Commissioner’s authority to order the California FAIR Plan to offer broader coverage options to consumers. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary Strobel has...
In the Face of a Severe California Wildfire Season, is The Oft-Used ‘Mitigation’ Word Too Little Too Late?
Jul 20 2021 // It may have been around 2017 when a true sense of urgency donned on insurers, public officials, residents and regulators in wildfire-prone California, as fires destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 structures in the state,...
M5.1 Earthquake Confirmed off Northern California Coast
Jul 20 2021 // A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck off the Northern California coast late Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. The earthquake just before midnight was about 12 kilometers west of Petrolia in Humboldt County and...
People Moves: Island Insurance Names Kadomoto Assistant Vice President; The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers in California Names Arricale Chief Financial Officer
Jul 20 2021 // Island Insurance Co. has promoted Denise Kadomoto to assistant vice president of accounting and finance. Kadomoto will continue to serve as the company’s controller, a position she has held since 2015. Kadomoto...
Takeaways from Our Conversation on The Impact of California Wildfires on Cannabis Insurance
Jul 19 2021 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv The California wildfire season is shaping up to be an ugly one, with a worsening drought and soaring temperatures in the Western U.S. Wildfires are already blazing across numerous states. As...
California Drivers Charged After Text Messages Detail Alleged Fraud Scheme
Jul 19 2021 // Maricela Pantjoa Vidrio, 31, of Fairfield, Calif., and Areshma Kiran, 35, of Sacramento, Calif., were charged on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly conspiring to misrepresent the facts following an...
California Insurance Company Pressing for its ‘Day in Court’
Jul 19 2021 // U.S. District Court Judge William B. Shubb granted the motion by the California Department of Insurance to dismiss the lawsuit filed by California Insurance Co. against the CDI. Shubb acted in a manner consistent with his...
Cardinal Health, AppleOne Settle California Harassment and Retaliation Suit for $1.45M
Jul 19 2021 // Global health care services and products company Cardinal Health will pay $1.45 million to resolve a racial harassment and retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
17 More Arraigned in $822K California Auto Insurance Fraud Ring
Jul 16 2021 // Another 17 defendants were arraigned for their alleged involvement in an organized auto insurance fraud ring in California in which dealers reportedly purchased damaged vehicles and then filed inflated claims and even...
Uber to Share Sexual Assault Claims Data on Website in Deal with California Regulator
Jul 16 2021 // Uber Technologies Inc. on Thursday reached a preliminary agreement with a California regulator for sharing data on sexual assault and harassment claims on its platform while protecting victims’ privacy and avoiding a...
