Latest California Headlines
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Suit: Vegas Strip Casinos Hid Resort Fees
Mar 26 2015 // A class action lawsuit filed in a California federal court alleges The Venetian and The Palazzo casino-resorts hid daily resort fees from travelers booking rooms at the Las Vegas Strip properties. The lawsuit filed earlier...
California Company Among Those to Recall Frozen Spinach
Mar 26 2015 // Three organic food companies that use spinach in their food have recalled hundreds of thousands of items over listeria concerns. Organic food company Amy’s Kitchen, in Petaluma, Calif., has voluntarily recalled about...
California, Others Seek Full Funding For West Coast Quake Warning
Mar 26 2015 // Three dozen members of Congress from California, Oregon and Washington are pressing for full funding of a West Coast earthquake early warning system. The group this week sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee...
California Bill Seeks Reports on Water Infrastructure Vulnerability to Quakes
Mar 25 2015 // At the start of a fourth-straight year of drought, California state Sen. Bob Hertzberg has introduced a bill requiring regional water-management officials to report the vulnerability of their water systems to an...
King Insurance in California Names DeGazon Underwriter, Program Manager
Mar 25 2015 // San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based King Insurance has named Andre DeGazon a senior professional liability underwriter and program manager. DeGazon has 20 years of experience. He was formerly a professional liability senior...
Goodwin Named President of Republic Indemnity in California
Mar 25 2015 // Encino, Calif.-based Republic Indemnity Company of America has named Allen Goodwin president. He succeeds Dwayne Marioni, who retired earlier in early March. Goodwin joined the company in 2011 as senior vice president of...
Prop 103’s Authors Argue for Changing Prop 103
Mar 25 2015 // Scottish poets from the 18th Century are rarely credited for their insights into California politics. Yet the architects of Proposition103, California’s 25-year-old attempt to rigidly control prices in the...
Heffernan Names Holmberg Assistant Vice President in California
Mar 24 2015 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has named Seth Holmberg assistant vice president of health benefits in its Walnut Creek, Calif. office. Holmberg will be responsible for business development for the employee benefits...
Officers in California Awarded $4M For Post-Shooting Discrimination
Mar 24 2015 // A jury has awarded a total of $4 million to two Los Angeles, Calif. police officers who sued the department alleging discrimination and retaliation after the shooting of an unarmed autistic man five years ago. The jury...
Two California Insurers Agree to Change Use of Death Master File
Mar 24 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced multi-million dollar settlement agreements with Guardian Life and Pacific Life related to their use of the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File...
Facebook Sued by California Woman Discrimination, Harassment
Mar 23 2015 // A former Facebook employee is suing the company on allegations that she was discriminated against, harassed and belittled during her brief employment there. Chia Hong filed the lawsuit this week in a San Francisco Bay Area...
Judge In California Gender Bias Case Oks Punitive Damages
Mar 23 2015 // A judge in a high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit will allow a former partner at venture firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers to seek punitive damages, adding to the potential pricetag for the firm if it loses...
Business Moves
Mar 23 2015 // Integro, Design Insurance Agency Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has acquired Design Insurance Agency Inc., a specialist brokerage providing professional liability coverage and risk management services...
Insurance Clusters Not Immune from Trade Secret Liability
Mar 23 2015 // An insurance cluster — sometimes called an alliance, network or aggregator — is a group of agents and brokers combined under a common association for mutual support and the ability to market their individual...
Increased Chance of Big One in Long-Term Quake Forecast for California
Mar 23 2015 // Chances that California will experience a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years has increased from 4.7 to 7.0 percent, according to an earthquake forecast by the U.S. Geological Survey and its partners. The...
People – West
Mar 23 2015 // The members of the Surplus Line Association of California have named Denis Brady, president of Burns & Wilcox Brokerage in San Francisco, chair of the SLA board of directors. Brady’s election was finalized after...
IICF Club100 in Hollywood Recognized Insurance Pros for Charity
Mar 20 2015 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s Club100 event at the Avalon Hollywood in Hollywood, Calif. on Thursday night drew more than 200 industry professionals to help raise funds for charity. The annual IICF...
Sugar Bowl in California Suspends Skiing as Drought Takes Toll
Mar 20 2015 // Yet another Northern California ski resort is closing early due to a lack of snow amid the state’s historic drought. Sugar Bowl resort near Truckee in the Sierra Nevada says Sunday will be the last day of the season....
California Judge Tosses Pyramid-Scheme Suit Against Herbalife
Mar 20 2015 // A California judge dismissed a lawsuit by Herbalife shareholders who claimed that the business structure and marketing practices of the weight loss and nutritional supplements company violated the law and that they lost...
Beacon Pointe Acquires Albert Heeg in California
Mar 19 2015 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Beacon Pointe Advisors has acquired Albert Heeg Investment Management Co. Alameda, Calif.-based Albert Heeg joins Beacon Pointe’s institutional consulting services group, which specializes...
