Latest California Headlines
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Court Upholds California Department of Insurance $27.5 M Fine Against Mercury
May 8 2019 // A California Court of Appeal upheld a $27.5 million fine the California Department of Insurance issued against Mercury Insurance Co. for charging illegal fees that should have been disclosed as premiums, a violation of...
California Psychologist And Doctor Charged With Fraudulent Workers’ Comp Evaluations
May 7 2019 // A California psychologist and doctor have been charged for allegedly submitting fraudulent insurance claims for workers’ compensation medical legal evaluations in an attempt to steal tens of thousands of dollars from...
Alera Group Acquires Shomer Insurance Agency in California
May 7 2019 // Alera Group has acquired Shomer Insurance Agency Inc. in Los Angeles, Calif. Terms of the deal were not announced. Shomer offers insurance and risk management programs to clients throughout California. The firm specializes...
United Valley Adds Two New Members in Southern California
May 6 2019 // United Valley Insurance Services Inc. has added two new members in Southern California: PIASC Insurance Services of Commerce and Cal Overseas Insurance Services of Brea. PIASC provides business insurance products to the...
15 California Chiropractors Charged in $6M Auto Insurance Scam
May 6 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...
California to Review Sex-Abuse Responses of 12 Dioceses
May 6 2019 // The California attorney general’s office will review how all 12 Roman Catholic dioceses in the state handled allegations of child sexual abuse that have resulted in payouts of hundreds of millions of dollars to...
A Case for Updated Insurance Licensing Exemption Regulations
May 6 2019 // Harken back to 2002 — a time when iPhones, Android phones, even Blackberries, had yet to be introduced. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were years away from their debuts, and streaming content on Netflix was still a...
Recent Commission Ruling Highlights Need for National Workplace Violence Prevention Standard
May 6 2019 // A federal commission decision that an employer had a duty to protect a social services worker who was stabbed to death by a client, even though the company did not violate any specific safety standard, reinvigorated...
Telemedicine Takes Workers’ Comp Into the Future
May 6 2019 // The use of telemedicine may be in its nascent stages within the workers’ compensation system, but the starting line has definitely been crossed with employers and workers’ comp insurers embracing the ability to...
PG&E in California 1Q Earnings Beat Wall Street Expectations, Profit of $136M
May 3 2019 // Pacific Gas & Electric Co.on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $136 million. The San Francisco, Calif.-based company said it had profit of 25 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were...
House Passes Climate Now Act, But What’s The Next Step?
May 2 2019 // The U.S. must take an active role in mitigating climate change on the global stage. So says the U.S. House of Representatives, which voted today on H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act. The bill, which passed 231-190,...
Alliant Acquires North County Insurance in California
May 2 2019 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Escondido, Calif.-based North County Insurance. Joseph Giamanco, president of North County Insurance, and the rest of the team will join Alliant and continue to service clients...
PG&E Seeks Court Approval for $105M Fund to Aid California Wildfire Victims
May 2 2019 // PG&E Corp. is seeking court approval for a $105 million fund to help house victims of the wildfires blamed on the bankrupt California power provider. PG&E in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco on...
Tesla Sued over Fatal Crash Allegedly Caused by Autopilot Malfunction
May 2 2019 // Tesla Inc. was sued over a fatal crash on a California highway allegedly caused when the Autopilot system of a 2017 Model X malfunctioned and steered the car into a concrete barrier. The case was filed just two days after...
NRA to Halt ‘Unlawful Solicitation’ of Carry Guard in California
May 1 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...
California Man Vows to Proceed with California Clergy Abuse Suit
May 1 2019 // A man who says he was molested by his parish priest decades ago vows to proceed with a lawsuit targeting all Catholic bishops in California after a judge dismissed part of the suit. The so-called “nuisance”...
PG&E Still Has No Estimate on Compensating California Wildfire Victims
May 1 2019 // Pacific Gas & Electric Corp.’s top financial executives said during a bankruptcy meeting Monday they still haven’t determined when the utility can start compensating victims of recent wildfires started by...
Relation Insurance Services in California Adds McKechnie and Hall
Apr 30 2019 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Relation Insurance Services has named Chris McKechnie has been named to the role of Chief Financial Officer, Tim Hall Executive Vice President and Head of M&A. The company also announced the...
California Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Chief’s Message to Comp Community
Apr 29 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...
L.A. County Sues Southern California Edison for Wildfire Damage
Apr 29 2019 // Los Angeles County sued Southern California Edison and parent company Edison International on Thursday to recover more than $100 million in costs and damages from a wind-driven wildfire that may have been sparked by one of...
