Latest California Headlines
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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...
Topa Insurance in California Names Abrams Team Leader
May 5 2015 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Co. has named Tina Epstein Abrams a commercial wholesale brokerage team leader. As team leader, Abrams leads the underwriting teams in property/casualty. Abrams has more than 30...
Scientists Say Drilling at Oil Field Not a Factor in Southern California Quakes
May 5 2015 // Scientists say the earthquakes to hit central Los Angeles recently have not been related to Inglewood Oil Field drilling. The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday’s light earthquake was the third in three weeks along...
Lawmakers in California to Weigh in on Rules For Medical Pot Shops
May 4 2015 // The California Legislature is considering multiple – and conflicting – plans to impose the first major statewide restrictions on medical marijuana dispensaries and growers. The debate over the billion-dollar industry...
Lawmakers in California to Weigh in on Rules For Medical Pot Shops
May 4 2015 // The California Legislature is considering multiple – and conflicting – plans to impose the first major statewide restrictions on medical marijuana dispensaries and growers. The debate over the billion-dollar industry...
3.9M Quake Shakes Buildings Across Southern California
May 4 2015 // A small earthquake has rattled the greater Los Angeles area, shaking buildings and waking residents over the weekend. There were no reports of injuries or damage. The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a...
IFG Cos. Names Denton Executive Managing Director in California
May 4 2015 // IFG Cos. has named Michael R. Denton executive managing director in property. He is based in IFG’s Irvine, Calif. office. Denton assumes responsibility for leading and managing the brokerage property division,...
Earthquake Fault Puts California at Risk for Tsunami
May 4 2015 // Scientists say the earthquake fault that runs through the coastal city of Ventura, Calif., can produce strong shaking and dangerous tsunamis, prompting state officials to study whether to revise hazard maps. The new...
California Workers’ Comp Premium Up 11% in 2014; Combined Ratio Still Exceeds 100
May 4 2015 // California written premium for calendar year 2014 was roughly $16.5 billion, 11 percent above 2013 and 88 percent above the written premium reported for 2009, according to a report from the California Workers’...
People – West
May 4 2015 // Lloyd’s of London named Richard Magrath regional director for its Western U.S. region. Magrath will be based in Los Angeles, Calif., with responsibility for market development activities in California, Oregon,...
CDI: True Religion Subcontractor Underreported $78M in Payroll
May 4 2015 // The owners of sewing companies subcontracted by True Religion Brand Jeans were arrested in mid-April on 18 felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud totaling more than $11 million in losses. Sung Hyun...
