Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mitilier Joins EPIC in Southern California
Jun 23 2015 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Vanessa Ruiz Mitilier a senior consultant and producer in the firm’s Southern California employee benefits consulting practice. Mitilier will be based in EPIC’s...
Most Drivers Mum About Ridesharing, Although Many Agents Ask
Jun 23 2015 // Roughly three quarters of ridesharing drivers don’t have ridesharing insurance, and nearly eight-in-10 conduct their ridesharing activities covertly and keep their insurer or agent in the dark. Two informal polls...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Monument LLC in Pennsylvania
Jun 22 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced today that it has acquired Monument LLC, a program administrator headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with an additional office in Newport Beach, California. Terms of the...
Navion Names Meisl Director of Marketing in California
Jun 22 2015 // Navion Insurance Associates Inc. has named Pam Meisl director of marketing and distribution. Meisl will be working out of the firm’s Anaheim Hills, Calif. office. She has 23 years of insurance industry experience....
$40M Jury Award in Suit Over California TGI Friday’s Killing
Jun 22 2015 // A Southern California jury awarded $40 million to the parents of a man who was stabbed to death in a TGI Friday’s restaurant. The panel found that the restaurant’s operator was 55 percent responsible for the...
Barney & Barney Names Quigley P/C Director in California
Jun 22 2015 // Barney & Barney Insurance Services LLC has named Sam Quigley director of property/casualty. Quigley will work in the firm’s Orange County, Calif. office, where he will focus on building the firm’s presence...
Glatfelter Public Practice Names Watkins Sales Executive in California
Jun 22 2015 // Glatfelter Public Practice has named Martin Watkins a sales executive for California water-related accounts. Watkins will work in the Stockton, Calif. office and focus on developing business with water entities – those...
Uber Expected to Ride Out Employee Ruling, Maintain High Valuation
Jun 22 2015 // A California ruling requiring Uber to classify a San Francisco-based driver as an employee instead of an independent contractor could potentially change how sharing-economy companies operate, but it is unlikely to dent...
Southern California Forest Fire 17 Sq. Miles And Growing
Jun 19 2015 // The huge fire burning in the San Bernardino National Forest east of Los Angeles has grown by another thousand acres and has now scorched more than 17 square miles of mountains. The U.S. Forest Service says the blaze...
How Ruling That Drivers Are Employees Upends Uber Business Model
Jun 19 2015 // If you’re a freelance writer who occasionally sells articles to a website, are you actually an employee? If you live in California, I think the answer might be — yes? The California Labor commissioner has ruled...
Probe Under Way in California Balcony Collapse as Victims Mourned
Jun 18 2015 // A group of Irish and Irish-American young men and women were enjoying their last blast summer in California before cracking down with college and careers, a rite of passage tens of thousands from the Emerald Isle have...
LP Insurance Hires Bolman in Northern California
Jun 17 2015 // LP Insurance Services Inc. has named Virginia Bolman a claims & contracts specialist in its risk management services division in Sacramento, Calif. Bolman is responsible for contract review, compliance and risk...
Will Uber Employee Status Ruling in California Impact Its Business Model?
Jun 17 2015 // An Uber driver is an employee not a contractor, according to a California Labor Commission ruling on Wednesday that opens the door to more scrutiny over the rideshare giant’s business model. Earlier in the day some...
Ground Gained Large Wildfire in Northern California
Jun 15 2015 // Firefighters made progress late Sunday in battling a lightning-sparked Northern California wildfire that has been burning in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest for five days, officials said. Light winds helped firefighters...
DUIs, Traffic Violations From Court Under in California Corruption Probe
Jun 15 2015 // Hundreds of Orange County court cases are being scrutinized amid suspicions that someone was paid to fix DUI and other traffic violations by falsifying court records. The FBI and county prosecutors are investigating, and...
$4M Fire-Prevention Grant Ignites Passions in Northern California
Jun 15 2015 // City officials accepted a $4 million federal grant to chop down trees in the ritzy Oakland hills, a decision that ignited debate over how best to prevent deadly wildfires in the affluent Northern California region. The...
California Bill Would Intercept Insurance Claims to Fund Child Support
Jun 15 2015 // California lawmakers advanced a bill that would intercept more insurance payments and use them to pay beneficiaries’ overdue child support. About a quarter of insurance companies now voluntarily participate in the...
First Major California Insurer to Offer Ridesharing Endorsement
Jun 15 2015 // Farmers became the first large California insurer to start offering a ridesharing insurance product in late-May. In an announcement made at the Los Angeles office of California Department of Insurance, California Insurance...
California Assembly Advances Earthquake Safety Bills
Jun 15 2015 // The California Assembly is advancing a pair of bills designed to help buildings withstand earthquakes. The legislation approved unanimously earlier this month would expand financial incentives for seismic...
Finston Named General Counsel of California Department of Insurance
Jun 12 2015 // John Finston was named general counsel for the California Department of Insurance. Finston, who has served as deputy commissioner for corporate and regulatory affairs for three years, will replace outgoing General Counsel...
