Latest California Headlines
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California Temporary Total Disability Rates for 2018 to Increase
Jun 20 2017 // California’s 2018 minimum and maximum temporary total disability rates will increase on Jan. 1, 2018, the state’s Division of Workers’ Compensation announced on Tuesday. The minimum TTD rate will increase...
Lending Club’s Dolan Joins Metromile in California as Chief Financial Officer
Jun 20 2017 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Metromile has named Carrie Dolan chief financial officer. Dolan is joining Metromile to help lead the company’s next phase of growth. Dolan most recently served as CFO of Lending Club, an...
Arrowhead in California Launches Hard-to-Place Workers’ Comp Subsidiary
Jun 20 2017 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. in San Diego, Calif. has launched a workers’ compensation wholesale brokerage arm that provides market access and specializes in harder-to-place risks and multi-state...
Legacy Specialist Compre to Acquire Irish Captive Insurer Equinox CA Europe
Jun 20 2017 // Compre, the independent insurance and reinsurance legacy specialist, today announces it has agreed to acquire Equinox CA Europe, a captive insurer of global engineering and construction conglomerate SNC-Lavalin. The...
Seeman Holtz Acquires Direct Choice in California
Jun 20 2017 // Seeman Holtz Property and Casualty Inc. has acquired Stevenson Ranch, Calif.-based Direct Choice Insurance. With Colby Singer at helm, his team specializes in helping clients find the lowest possible rates for auto, home,...
Supreme Court Limits Out-of-State Residents Joining Class Actions
Jun 20 2017 // The U.S. Supreme Court gave companies a new tool to defeat some legal claims, siding with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in a bid to limit a consumer lawsuit in California over its Plavix blood thinner. The justices, voting 8-1,...
Biglari Holdings Inc. to Acquire Pacific Specialty Insurance Co. in California
Jun 19 2017 // Biglari Holdings Inc. and Pacific Specialty Insurance Co. announced a definitive agreement for a subsidiary of Biglari Holdings to acquire all of the outstanding shares of the parent company of California-based Pacific...
Arrowhead Acquires TriCoast Insurance Services in California
Jun 19 2017 // Brown & Brown subsidiary Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Camarillo, Calif.-based TriCoast Insurance. The announcement was made on Monday by J. Scott Penny, chief...
California Judge Says TV Network Owes $2M in Sex Abuse Cover-Up Lawsuit
Jun 19 2017 // An Orange County, Calif. judge says Trinity Broadcasting Network is responsible for the entire $2 million a jury awarded in an alleged sex abuse cover-up. The judge ruled that TBN is on the hook for the full amount jurors...
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Jun 19 2017 // Topa Insurance Co. has named Olive Chang assistant vice president of reinsurance and programs. Chang will be located in the Calabasas, Calif., office. Her duties include managing reinsurance and programs operation. Chang...
California Division of Workers’ Comp Suspends Psychiatrist for Fraud
Jun 19 2017 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended Pasadena psychiatrist Jason Hui-Tek Yang from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system following his conviction in Riverside...
California High Court to Address Occurrence Caused by Accident
Jun 19 2017 // The California Supreme Court is set to address the issue of whether there is an “occurrence” under an employer’s commercial general liability policy when an injured third party brings a claim against an...
California Business Owner Nabbed in $32M Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Jun 19 2017 // Detectives with the California Department of Insurance arrested Gina Marie Gregori, 55, of Lafayette, for allegedly underreporting payroll and duping insurers out of $32 million. Gregori was charged with 19 felony counts...
California Man Bit by Dog While Rescuing Cat Awarded $1M
Jun 16 2017 // A California man who was bitten by a police dog while trying to rescue a friend’s cat at a construction site two years ago has been awarded $1.1 million by a civil jury. Jurors ruled this week that San Mateo County...
Harbor Gets California Department of Workers’ Comp OK for Telemedicine
Jun 16 2017 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Harbor Health Systems it is one of the first companies to receive approval from the California Department of Workers’ Compensation to offer telemedicine through its medical provider...
Uber’s Plans for Trucking Industry Hit Detours
Jun 16 2017 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s drive to become a major player in the trucking business is off to a bumpy start, with analysts and industry executives questioning what exactly the company can bring to the sprawling...
California-based Uber Loses Officials, Faces Major Changes
Jun 15 2017 // Freewheeling Uber faces major change. Its board is cracking down, its founder and CEO is stepping away indefinitely, and the company itself is coming to grips with measures intended to reform its toxic culture and...
UPS Worker in Northern California Kills 3, Turns Gun on Self
Jun 15 2017 // A UPS driver opened fire with a handgun inside a United Parcel Service Inc delivery center in San Francisco on Wednesday, killing three co-workers before fatally shooting himself as police closed in, authorities and...
Florida Court Rules Property Insurer Liable for Shortfall in Policy Benefits Promised by Agent
Jun 15 2017 // A Florida state Court of Appeal reversed the dismissal of a claim for negligent procurement of property insurance, because, when placing the coverage, the insurer’s agent failed to account for a reduction in...
Report: California Wage Increase Will Require Hike in 2018 Comp Benefits
Jun 14 2017 // California’s State Average Weekly Wage rose more than 3.6 percent to $1,206.92 in the year ending March 31, which the California Workers’ Compensation Institute said will boost temporary total disability and...
