Latest California Headlines
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Several California Hospitals Given Low Patient Safety Grades
May 18 2015 // Nearly 40 percent of California hospitals earned low ratings for patient safety in a recent national assessment. Nonprofit The Leapfrog Group issued a national report card in late-April that gave nearly four in 10...
Students in Deadly California Bus Crash Not Given Safety Instructions
May 15 2015 // The high school students who struggled to escape from a burning tour bus after a collision with a tractor-trailer in California last year that killed 10 never received the required safety instructions from the driver...
El Niño Likely to Last Through Northern Hemisphere Summer: U.S. Forecaster
May 15 2015 // The El Niño climate phenomenon is almost certain to last through the Northern Hemisphere summer, the U.S. weather forecaster said, raising the chance of heavy rain in the southern United States as well as South America,...
Family Sues Southern California Gym Over Dad’s Heart Attack
May 14 2015 // A Los Angeles gym is facing a lawsuit from the three kids of a man who had a heart attack and died while working out. City News Service reports Marc Palotay’s son and two daughters filed the lawsuit earlier this week...
Worldwide Facilities Names Altamirano Property Broker in California
May 13 2015 // Worldwide Facilities Inc. has named Marvin Altamirano a property broker in Southern California. Altamirano has more than nine years of experience in placing complex property risks. He has worked as a property broker since...
California Court Says Staffing Agencies Can’t Self-Insure Workers’ Comp
May 12 2015 // A California Court of Appeals has upheld the state’s decision to exclude temporary staffing agencies from self-insuring for workers’ compensation, a ruling that upholds one of the provisions in the...
Hub International Acquires Assets of Framberger in California
May 12 2015 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Framberger Employee Benefits & Insurance Services Inc. in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agency will become part of the California...
EPIC Acquires Sorci Insurance Brokerage in California
May 12 2015 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has acquired Sorci Insurance Brokerage Inc., a specialist in providing comprehensive workers’ compensation insurance services to new car auto dealers in California. Sorci Insurance...
Self-Driving Cars Getting Hit in California
May 12 2015 // Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies to test them on public roads. Two accidents happened...
Milestones in Leadership Conference in Southern California ‘Experiential’
May 11 2015 // More than 350 business owners and decision makers attended the annual “Milestones In Leadership Summit” in Southern California earlier this month. The event, created by Ronald J. Hoefer, owner and CEO of...
CIG Names Oliver Agency Development Manager for Northern California
May 11 2015 // Capital Insurance Group has named Christine Oliver as agency development manager in its California Bay Area territory. She will work primarily with agents in the East Bay, Monterey Peninsula and the Salinas Valley to...
Equity Risk Partners Names Gilleland Senior Vice President in California
May 11 2015 // Equity Risk Partners has named Kirk Gilleland a senior vice president in property/casualty in the firm’s San Francisco office. Gilleland has more than 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions due diligence,...
Woman Who Lost Silicon Valley Gender Suit Wants $1M in Costs Tossed
May 11 2015 // Former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers junior partner Ellen Pao urged a court to reject the Silicon Valley venture capital firm’s bid for almost $1 million in court costs after it defeated her gender-bias claims...
WSS Senior Broker Andrea Zenner Awarded IBA Outstanding Company Partner of the Year
May 11 2015 // Plano, TX, May 11, 2015 – In an event held in Glendale, California on April 30th, 2015, the IBA awarded Board Member Andrea Zenner their 10th annual Outstanding Company Partner of the Year Award for her having been...
California Commissioner OKs 10.2% Drop in Workers’ Comp Advisory Rates
May 8 2015 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones signed on to a recommendation by the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of an advisory pure premium rate for July that is 10.2 percent lower than those approved...
California Apartment Fire Displaces Hundreds, Causes $850,000 in Damage
May 8 2015 // About 200 residents are assessing the damage after a two-alarm fire emptied their Southern California apartment building for the night, shutting off power and burning units and cars. The Orange County Register reported...
Copyright Claim Against Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Moved to California
May 8 2015 // A lawsuit claiming that Stairway to Heaven was filched from an obscure song by the band Spirit has survived its first legal challenge. The Philadelphia judge in the copyright infringement case against Led Zeppelin ruled...
Small Quake Rattles Remote Southern California Region
May 7 2015 // A small earthquake has rattled the Hemet area of Southern California and hundreds of people have reported feeling it. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the 3.9-magnitude temblor struck shortly about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday...
Unprecedented Water Cutbacks Approved by California Regulators
May 7 2015 // California water regulators adopted sweeping, unprecedented restrictions on how people, governments and businesses can use water amid the state’s ongoing drought, hoping to push reluctant residents to deeper...
California Officer in Ice Bucket Video Faces Insurance Fraud Charges
May 6 2015 // A California officer faces insurance fraud charges after authorities say a video showed her participating in an ice-bucket challenge despite claiming she had a back injury. Los Angeles County prosecutors say a video posted...
