Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
TeenSafe in California Taps Moore to Lead Outreach to Insurers
Apr 6 2018 // TeenSafe has hired Aaron Moore as the company’s head of channel sales. Moore will work with insurance companies to develop programs to parents of help teens eliminate distracted driving. He will be reaching out to...
Uber Seeks to Have California Suit by Woman Hit on Freeway Thrown out
Apr 6 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc. is trying to fend off a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was seriously injured after her driver ordered her out of the car in the middle of a California freeway. The ridesharing company is asking a...
$332B in Premiums Makes California World’s 4th Largest Insurance Market
Apr 5 2018 // California’s annual insurance premium volume has increased to $332 billion, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced on Thursday. That makes California is the 4th largest insurance market in the world, and the...
M5.3 Temblor Shakes Southern California Area, No Damage So Far Reported
Apr 5 2018 // A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck off the coast of Southern California at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake struck roughly 17 miles off the Santa Cruz Islands and was measured at 6.1...
California Workers’ Comp Committee Votes to Lower Mid-Year Filing
Apr 5 2018 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s governing committee has voted to authorize the WCIRB to submit a lower mid-year pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance...
Alliant Acquires Dumortier Risk Management in California
Apr 4 2018 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Dumortier Risk Management Inc., a Los Angeles, Calif.-based insurance brokerage firm that specializes in hospitality risk management. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Chris...
Shooter’s Family Says They Warned Police She Might Attack YouTube
Apr 4 2018 // The woman identified by police as the attacker who wounded three people at YouTube’s headquarters in California was a vegan blogger who accused the video-sharing service of discriminating against her, according to...
Chubb $380M Q1 Cat Loss Estimate Includes California Wildfires, East Coast Storms
Apr 4 2018 // Chubb Limited released preliminary net loss estimates for the first quarter of 2018 attributable to natural catastrophes, including the California mudslides, of $380 million pre-tax, or $305 million after tax. Losses from...
Georgia-Based Auto Insurer Access Insurance To Be Liquidated
Apr 4 2018 // Insurance regulators in the Southeast are notifying policyholders in their states of a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that is to be liquidated after being placed in...
Bolton & Company in California Names Trugman Associate Vice President
Apr 3 2018 // Pasadena, Calif.-based Bolton & Co. is expanding its education practice group with the promotion of Nicholle Trugman to associate vice president. Trugman has more than 10 years of employee benefits consulting...
EEOC Sues California Hospitality Company for Asthma Disability Discrimination
Apr 3 2018 // A large Southern California hospitality company is being sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly violating federal law by denying a reasonable accommodation to an employee with asthma. The...
Topa in California Names Pavlov Chief Underwriting Officer
Apr 3 2018 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group has named Denise Pavlov chief underwriting officer. Pavlov will report to President and CEO John Donahue, and oversee Topa’s underwriting, products, program development,...
Coffee Sold in California Will Require Cancer Warning, Judge Rules
Apr 3 2018 // Coffee sellers will have to post ominous warnings in California because each cup contains a chemical linked to cancer, a judge ruled. The culprit is a byproduct of the bean roasting process that is a known carcinogen and...
SUV Data Shows Deadly California Wreck May Have Been Intentional
Apr 3 2018 // Authorities say data recovered from the wreckage of the SUV carrying a large family from Washington state shows the deadly crash may have been intentional. The California Highway Patrol says the SUV carrying the family...
California Mudslide Claims Top $421M
Apr 3 2018 // Insurers have received more than 2,000 insurance claims totaling more than $421 million in losses from the deadly Montecito, Calif. mudslide that destroyed or damaged more than 400 homes and businesses and killed 21...
Judge Says in California, Starbucks Coffee Must Have Cancer Warning
Apr 2 2018 // Starbucks Corp. and other coffee sellers must put a cancer warning on coffee sold in California, a Los Angeles judge has ruled, possibly exposing the companies to millions of dollars in fines. A little-known not-for-profit...
Liquidation Order Issued for Auto Insurer with More Than 42K Policies in Pennsylvania
Apr 2 2018 // A Texas court has issued an order of liquidation for Access Insurance Company, an auto insurer that has 42,785 policies in Pennsylvania. This means Pennsylvanians that currently have auto insurance through Access Insurance...
Texas Moves to Liquidate ‘Impaired’ Access Insurance
Apr 2 2018 // Stephanie K. JonesTexas insurance regulators placed into receivership and started the process of liquidating a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that the insurance...
Montrose and Horizontal or Vertical Exhaustion: Is the Long-Tail (Claim) Wagging the Dog?
Apr 2 2018 // The California Supreme Court will again intervene in the protracted saga of insurance litigation stemming from the bodily injury, property damage, and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act...
Georgia-Based Auto Insurer Access Insurance To Be Liquidated
Apr 2 2018 // Insurance regulators in the Southeast are notifying policyholders in their states of a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that is to be liquidated after being placed in...
