Latest California Headlines
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Northern California Town Fights Back After Being Nearly Burned Off Map
Sep 28 2015 // Mountain Ranch is known as a Gold Rush-era, fiercely independent place, where many of its aging residents distrust the government and prefer to take matters into their own hands. The unincorporated hamlet in Calaveras...
California Governor Signs Bill Dealing with Insurance Code
Sep 28 2015 // California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1515, which clarifies and corrects sections in the insurance code. The omnibus bill was authored by the Assembly Committee on Insurance and sponsored by Insurance...
Heffernan Taps Todd Davis in Employee Benefits in California
Sep 28 2015 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has named Todd Davis assistant vice president of employee benefits in its Walnut Creek, Calif. office. Davis will be working with Jani De La Rosa, director of employee benefits, to grow the...
California Gas and Electric Company Seeks to Split Costs on Uninsured Fire
Sep 28 2015 // San Diego Gas and Electric is seeking authority to bill its customers $379 million for legal settlement costs left over from 2007 wildfires that destroyed 1,300 homes and killed two people. In filings with state regulators...
California Court Rules Batmobile Entitled to Copyright Protection
Sep 25 2015 // Batman won’t have to worry about Batmobile knockoffs after a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday the caped crusader’s vehicle is entitled to copyright protection. The Batmobile’s bat-like appearance and...
Networked Brings on Stankowich and Hermsmeyer in California
Sep 25 2015 // Networked Insurance Agents has named Joe Stankowich sales vice president and the key point of contact for independent agency members in California’s San Francisco Bay, East Bay, Silicon Valley and Central Valley...
Car Dealers Sue Volkswagen Over Losses Tied to Diesel Cheating
Sep 25 2015 // Independent car dealerships sued Volkswagen AG in California on Thursday over losses they say they will incur following revelations that the company fitted some diesel models with software to cheat on U.S. vehicle...
How Regulators Caught Volkswagen’s Diesel Deception
Sep 25 2015 // The confession of cheating that’s embroiled Volkswagen AG in one of the biggest scandals in auto industry history came on a cool California morning, on the sidelines of an academic conference focused on green...
Workers’ Compensation Premiums Up 5.3% in First Half of 2015: Demotech
Sep 25 2015 // Workers’ compensation insurers reported a 5.3 percent increase in direct written premiums during the first six months of 2015 versus the same period in 2014, according to actuarial firm Demotech’s review of...
WSS Hires Gregory Brubaker As New Associate Broker for California Office
Sep 25 2015 // Plano, TX, September 25 2015-Western Security Surplus is pleased to announce its hiring of Gregory Brubaker as a new Associate Broker. Starting Monday, September 28th, Gregory will be working with Wendy Clinton in the WSS...
Der Manouel Taps Wood as Marketing Director in California
Sep 24 2015 // Der Manouel Insurance Group in California has named Jim Wood as director of marketing. Wood will work with the DMIG consultants and service staff in finding the carrier solutions for clients. He will also help to develop...
Schermerhorn Named Vice President of Lockton in California
Sep 24 2015 // Lockton Cos. has named Jeff Schermerhorn vice president in its cyber technology practice. Schermerhorn will be based in Lockton’s Los Angeles office. He will offer clients tailored programs to shelter them from the...
Hyundai Fire & Marine Enters California Homeowners Market
Sep 24 2015 // King Insurance has created a strategic partnership with Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. to sell Hyundai’s recently filed, California Homeowner Insurance products. Policies will be sold through King’s...
HUB Names Eggleston Managing Director in California
Sep 24 2015 // Kevin Eggleston has joined HUB California as managing director responsible for the hospitality practice. Eggleston will be based in the HUB California Sacramento office. Eggleston began his career in management positions...
Tropical Rains a Mixed Bag for Southwest Drought Relief
Sep 24 2015 // The tropical Pacific is sending a big dollop of rain into the U.S. Southwest. While it won’t help much in drought-ridden California, it’s another step in the right direction for Arizona and New Mexico. The...
California Blazes Destroy 2,000-plus Homes, Curb Insurer Appetites
Sep 23 2015 // A pair of massive California wildfires that have destroyed more than 2,000 structures are now considered among the most damaging fires in state history, and they could change the way insurers view risk or conduct...
Obama Declares Major Disaster in California Wildfire
Sep 23 2015 // President Barack Obama declared a major disaster Tuesday in a Northern California wildfire that has destroyed at least 1,200 homes and killed at least three people. The declaration issued for the fire that broke out in...
Californians Pushed by Wildfires into High-risk Insurance Market
Sep 21 2015 // There are lots of reasons people live in California’s Modjeska Canyon. Nestled against the mountains and abutting the Cleveland National Forest, the area has abundant wildlife and access to nature, yet is just a 20...
California Judge Slaps Down Uber Bid to Force Arbitration on Driver
Sep 21 2015 // A former Uber Technologies Inc. driver defeated the company’s bid to force her into arbitration, a second victory after California’s labor commissioner said she should have been considered an employee. A San...
Bloomberg View: California’s Wildfires Didn’t Have to Be So Extreme
Sep 21 2015 // Warming temperatures and a historic drought made Northern California’s Valley fire faster to spread and harder to fight. But the bigger culprit, sadly but thankfully, was something under human control: forest...
