Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Beecher Carlson Names Newell as Managing Director in California
Feb 23 2017 // Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC is expanding its West Coast operations with the appointment of Keith Newell as its managing director. Newell will be primarily based in the firm’s Woodland Hills, Calif. office....
California Surplus Lines Association Elects Ciardello Chairman of the Board
Feb 23 2017 // The members of the Surplus Line Association of California have elected Tom Ciardello, senior executive vice president of Worldwide Facilities LLC, as the chair of the SLA board of directors. Ciardello’s election was...
Hub International Acquires Assets of Employer Resource Group in California
Feb 22 2017 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Employer Resource Group Financial & Insurance Services Inc. in Torrance, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tim Dickins, ERG founder and CEO, will join Hub...
Infogain Names Patterson as Guidewire Head for Insurance Vertical in California
Feb 21 2017 // Infogain has named James Patterson as Guidewire head. Patterson is based in San Diego, Calif. and reports to Girish Kannalli, vice president and general manager of the insurance and healthcare business unit. Patterson is...
California Gas Prices Could Rise Following Local Refinery Blast
Feb 21 2017 // An explosion and fire at an oil refinery in Torrance, Calif. over the weekend forced the partial shutdown of the plant, leading oil traders to expect a spike this week in West Coast gasoline prices. Police and the plant...
17 Million U.S. Homes Worth $4.9 Trillion Are in Environmental Hazard Zones
Feb 20 2017 // Millions of homes and condominiums across the country are in high danger zones for environmental hazards. According to the Environmental Hazards Housing Risk Index, produced by ATTOM Data Solutions, 17.3 million single...
California DIR Suspends 7 Workers’ Comp Medical Providers for Fraud
Feb 17 2017 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations and its Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended seven medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system. The providers...
California Lawmaker Proposes Bill to Allow Later Last Call Times
Feb 17 2017 // Closing times at bars in California could go later if proposed legislation there gets passed. The bill proposed by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat who represents San Francisco, would let municipalities set their own...
Woodruff-Sawyer in California Names Cartwright Practice Leader
Feb 17 2017 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Darren Cartwright claims auditing and consulting practice leader. Cartwright will be responsible for the direction of the claims group, which provides claims...
What Happens if Trump Pulls U.S. Out of Paris Agreement?
Feb 16 2017 // Dam climate change. An opinion piece in the New York Times is offering a tie-in between global warming and the potential disaster unfolding at the Oroville Dam in Northern California. “After five years of...
Hacker Convicted in California of Breaking into More Than 100K Amex Accounts
Feb 16 2017 // A federal jury in Sacramento, Calif. has convicted a hacker accused of breaking into more than 100,000 of American Express accounts and handing off funds to Russia. The Sacramento Bee reported that 37-year-old Mihran...
Wholesale Trading Insurance Names Kiley Managing Director in California
Feb 16 2017 // Wholesale Trading Insurance Services LLC in San Francisco, Calif. has named Chris Kiley managing director and property broker. Kiley has more than 20 years of property broking and underwriting with expertise in real estate...
CoreLogic: $13.3B in Reconstruction at Risk in Northern California Dam Failure
Feb 15 2017 // Roughly 50,047 single- and multi-family residential homes could be damaged with an estimated reconstruction cost value of $13.3 billion if the Oroville Dam in California were to fail completely, according to new data...
Report: California’s Central Coast Accounting for More of State’s Comp Claims
Feb 15 2017 // California’s Central Coast has been accounting for more of the state’s workers’ compensation claims recently, a new report issued today shows. The California Workers’ Compensation Institute has...
8 Cars Burn, 7 People Treated after Parking Fire at California’s Disneyland
Feb 15 2017 // A fire broke out in Disneyland’s main parking structure that burned eight cars and caused seven people to be treated for smoke inhalation, authorities said. No foul play was suspected but authorities haven’t...
Flood Concerns Dismissed by Dam Managers California 12 Years Ago
Feb 15 2017 // Environmental activists and local government officials warned more than a decade ago about the risk of catastrophic flooding below a major Northern California dam – the very scenario that threatened to unfold over the...
EPIC Names Frugoli Vice President in Health Care Group in California
Feb 14 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has named Adam Frugoli vice president of its health care strategy group. He will divide his time between EPIC’s Idaho Falls, Idaho and Sacramento, Calif., offices. Frugoli...
Palomar Specialty Launches Residential Flood Program in California
Feb 14 2017 // Palomar Specialty Insurance Co. has launched Flood Guard, a private flood program in California that uses an advanced and granular proprietary rating system. Palomar used catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide’s...
California Court Says Commissioner Can Prohibit Pass Thru of Advertising Costs
Feb 13 2017 // A California Court of Appeal had decided in favor of California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones in a case against Mercury Insurance Co. and a coalition of insurance industry groups, which sued Jones to challenge his...
Trump Labor Chief Nominee Puzder Dodges Disability Bias Suit for Now
Feb 13 2017 // Labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder, the controversial business leader expected to undergo a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing next week, will be spared an emotionally weighted and concurrent discrimination trial against...
