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Capital Insurance Group in California Officially Acquired by Auto-Owners Insurance
May 28 2019 // Capital Insurance Group is now a member of the Auto-Owners Insurance group of companies after regulatory approvals were cleared and closing documents were signed this week. CIG in February entered into an agreement to be...
PIIB in California Names Bertolini Future President and CEO
May 28 2019 // El Dorado Hills, Calif.-based Pacific Interstate Insurance Brokers has named Tiffany Bertolini the future president of the firm. Current President and CEO Larry Manning will be retiring from his current duties on Dec. 31,...
Log Ride Crash at California Amusement Park Leaves 3 Injured
May 28 2019 // Authorities say three members of a family were injured, one critically, when they were ejected from the log ride at a Southern California amusement park. Fire officials say the ride malfunctioned and one of the log-shaped...
ICW Group in California Names Hartline Vice President of Information Technology
May 28 2019 // ICW Group Insurance Cos. has named Todd Hartline vice president of information technology. Hartline, who will lead the company’s IT function, will be based in the ICW Group corporate headquarters in San Diego and...
Speedy Reactor Cleanups May Carry Both Risks and Rewards
May 24 2019 // Companies specializing in the handling of radioactive material are buying retired U.S. nuclear reactors from utilities and promising to clean them up and demolish them in dramatically less time than usual – eight...
Gorst & Compass in California Names Mulford Senior Transportation Broker
May 23 2019 // Chatsworth, Calif.-based Gorst & Compass has named Kristi Mulford a senior transportation broker/underwriter. Mulford, who is based in San Marcos, has 18 years of commercial auto insurance experience. She was...
Bankruptcy Judge Approves PG&E $105 Million Assistance Fund for Wildfire Victims
May 23 2019 // PG&E Corp. may set up a $105 million housing fund for victims of 2017 and 2018 wildfires in California, which set records for devastation and were blamed on the utility’s equipment, the judge overseeing the...
Feinberg Named Mediator for Bayer Roundup Liability Settlement
May 23 2019 // A U.S. judge on Wednesday appointed prominent attorney Kenneth Feinberg as mediator for court-mandated settlement talks in the federal litigation over allegations that Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer...
California Legislature Mulling Electric Scooter Regulation
May 22 2019 // The California Assembly has approved new rules for electric bikes and scooters. Businesses like Bird and Spin have deployed scooters to cities across California and the country in recent years. Often local governments have...
Johnson & Johnson Hit with $25 Million Talc Verdict; Also Cleared by Another Jury
May 22 2019 // Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay at least $25 million to a woman who said she contracted a rare asbestos-related cancer through decades of daily use of J&J’s Baby Powder or its other talc product, Shower...
Monarch E&S Insurance Services in California Names Romano Vice President
May 21 2019 // Burbank, Calif.-based Monarch E&S Insurance Services hired Matt Romano as vice president to launch the firm’s flood practice. Romano for the last seven years has worked both as a retailer and wholesaler...
Direct Written Premium Fell in California Workers’ Comp System in 2018
May 20 2019 // Total direct written premium in the California workers’ compensation system fell for the second consecutive year in 2018, declining 3.8 percent to less than $12.3 billion as nine of the 10 largest insurer groups in...
Greenlight Re Invests in California Dispute Resolution Business Fairclaims
May 20 2019 // Greenlight Re Innovations has made a strategic investment in FairClaims, an online insurance and consumer dispute resolution startup based in Los Angeles, Calif. FairClaims is the sixth insurance technology business which...
Army Corps of Engineers Raises Risk Assessment on Southern California Dam
May 20 2019 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has changed Prado Dam’s risk characterization from moderate urgency to high urgency, based on a recent assessment. More than 1.4 million people live and work in 29 cities downstream...
California Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Chief’s Message to Comp Community
May 20 2019 // The California workers’ compensation marketplace today remains generally healthy for insurers, employers and injured workers, the chief of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California said in...
15 Calif. Chiropractors Charged in $6M Auto Insurance Scam
May 20 2019 // Fifteen Southern California chiropractors have been charged with a $6 million insurance and kickback scheme involving phony car crash medical claims. Los Angeles County prosecutors announced that the chiropractors are...
NRA to Halt ‘Unlawful Solicitation’ of Carry Guard in California
May 20 2019 // The National Rifle Association has agreed to stop soliciting insurance in California without a license, and made changes to its website and member communication materials to address allegations in a 2018 cease and desist...
Frederick H. DiMeo Acquires Ozwald and Speaker in California
May 17 2019 // The Frederick H. DiMeo Insurance Agency Inc. has purchased the personal lines division of Oakland, Calif.-based Ozwald and Speaker Insurance Services Inc. The acquisition includes the purchase of six books of business,...
California Bill to Expand Customer Ability to Sue over Handling of Data Fails
May 17 2019 // California’s senate blocked a bill on Thursday that would have expanded the ability of consumers to sue companies over their handling of personal data, a win for tech industry groups concerned about wide-ranging...
California’s New Climate and Sustainability Chief in Talks with Insurers
May 16 2019 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Michael Peterson has had about five months to come in and tackle what promises to be unique job. Peterson is California’s deputy commissioner for climate and sustainability. After...
