Latest California Headlines
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California Issues Moratorium on Insurers Non-Renewing or Cancelling Following Wildfires
Nov 5 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday announced a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance companies non-renewing or cancelling residential property insurance policies, a move he says is aimed at...
Newfront Insurance in California Adds Tennis in Employee Benefits
Nov 5 2020 // Newfront Insurance in San Francisco, Calif., has named Dana Tennis a principal and employee benefits producer. Tennis was previously with Marsh & McLennan Agency as a client sales executive. She was a business...
MJ Hall & Co. Adds Scottish American’s Buchanan in California
Nov 5 2020 // MJ Hall & Co. has named Stephanie Buchanan a lead broker specializing in commercial lines in the Stockton, Calif., office. Buchanan joins the team with experience in commercial lines brokerage, social media and...
Capital Insurance Group in California Names Doll President and CEO
Nov 5 2020 // Monterey, Calif.-based Capital Insurance Group has named Andy Doll president and CEO. Doll will take the helm of CIG beginning Jan. 1, 2021. Doll currently serves as senior vice president and chief operating officer at...
California Health Group Settling for $31.5M Over Drug Billing
Nov 4 2020 // A non-profit California health care chain will pay more than $31.5 million to settle allegations that it overbilled Medi-Cal for drugs bought through a federal program, authorities said. Memorial Health Services, based in...
Washington Commissioner Winning Sixth Term, Prop. 22 in California Passes
Nov 4 2020 // Incumbent Mike Kreidler was leading Republican challenger Chirayu Patel in the race for Washington insurance commissioner as vote counting continued on Wednesday. Kreidler, who’s seeking a sixth term in office, had...
Hippo in California Adds Wijnberg to Board as Independent Director
Nov 4 2020 // Palo Alto, Calif.-based insurtech Hippo has named Sandra Wijnberg to its board as an independent director. Wijnberg has experience in insurance, private equity and board governance. She currently serves as audit committee...
California Insurance Co. Hits Commissioner with Anti-SLAPP Motion
Nov 3 2020 // California Insurance Co. has filed an “Anti-SLAPP” motion the company says is to protect its First Amendment rights in its ongoing legal battle with the California Department of Insurance and Insurance...
CRC Group Acquires W. Brown & Associates in California
Nov 3 2020 // CRC Group has completed its acquisition of W. Brown & Associates Property & Casualty, an Irvine, Calif. -based surplus lines broker and MGA. Brown & Associates will be part of CRC Group’s Commercial...
California Voters Deciding Fate of Gig Economy Workers
Nov 3 2020 // Trend-setting California votes on the future of the gig economy on Tuesday, deciding whether to back a ballot proposal by Uber and its allies that would cement app-based food delivery and ride-hail drivers’ status as...
California’s Temporary Total Disability Rates for 2021 Increasing
Nov 2 2020 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that the 2021 minimum and maximum temporary total disability rates will increase on Jan. 1, 2021. The minimum TTD rate will increase from $194.91 to $203.44...
R.E. Chaix & Associates Acquires National Advantage in California
Nov 2 2020 // R.E. Chaix & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. has purchased the assets of National Advantage Insurance Services Inc. in Tustin, Calif. National Advantage Insurance Services specializes in commercial auto,...
$166M in Fines Recommended for PG&E Over California Outages
Nov 2 2020 // California regulators are being asked to fine Pacific Gas & Electric nearly $166 million for failing to properly inform customers before it cut power to millions of people last year. The sweeping outages without proper...
Newfront in California Adds Alliant’s Vanderyacht to Run Logistics Practice
Nov 2 2020 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Newfront Insurance has named Jason Vanderyacht a principal and logistics practice leader. Vanderyacht comes from Alliant, where as vice president. He was with Roanoke Trade before that. Jason...
California Permits GM’s Driverless Car to Cruise Streets of San Francisco
Nov 2 2020 // The race for driverless autonomous vehicles is heating up and in October, Cruise became the first to receive a permit to test cars without anyone in them on the streets of San Francisco from California’s Department...
California Pledges to Protect Homeowners from Insurer Withdrawals Due to Wildfires
Nov 2 2020 // California’s insurance commissioner in late October pledged to step up efforts to protect the state’s residents from wildfires and address a pullback of private insurers from the state’s riskiest...
Wrongful Death Suit Filed in California Over Woman Who Died After Ingesting Marijuana
Nov 2 2020 // The law firm CaseyGerry has filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court on behalf of the parents of Le’Sharia Bre’Aun Steele, a 28-year old flight attendant from Alabama who died in San Diego, Calif. after...
California City to Pay $7M to Family of Man Killed by Officer
Oct 30 2020 // A San Francisco Bay Area city has agreed to pay $7.3 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a man who died after an officer placed him in a controversial neck hold that has since been banned in California in the wake...
California Street Racer Charged with Auto Insurance Fraud, Grand Theft
Oct 29 2020 // Michael Lynn Cooper, 55, of Ontario, Calif., was charged with multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and grand theft after allegedly misrepresenting the facts of a collision to his insurance company to receive a payout...
Scientists Want New Framework for Understanding California Wildfire Costs, Risks
Oct 29 2020 // A new report out shows challenges current fire management policies in California, proposes a new framework for understanding the total cost of wildfire in the state and suggests that health impacts from smoke my represent...
