Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Costliest State for Workers’ Comp, Report Shows
Oct 20 2014 // A state-by-state ranking of workers’ compensation premiums, one that states reportedly use as a motivational call to improve their systems, seems to call for even more reform of California’s recently reformed...
People – West
Oct 20 2014 // Salt Lake City, Utah-based The Buckner Co. has named Robert F. Atwell as the firm’s healthcare practice leader. Atwell’s primary focus will be on serving the region’s healthcare community. Atwell has 40...
Mandates, Subsidies and Political Semantics
Oct 17 2014 // When the U.S. Supreme Court decided the fate of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate in 2012, the nation was gripped by an intimate and personal political drama worthy of Broadway or, at least, General...
Homeowners Sue Golf Course For Negligence in California Fire
Oct 17 2014 // A group of homeowners has sued a golf course owner for negligence, stemming from a wildfire that destroyed eight houses, two businesses and an apartment complex near San Diego. The lawsuit filed last week in San Diego...
States’ Efforts on Climate Change Adaptation: Half Full or Half Empty?
Oct 16 2014 // Who hates that glass-half-full analogy? I’m guessing more than half of you, but let’s not let that stand in the way of using the clichéd-to-death philosophical quandary to illustrate a point being made by a...
WSS Lets Lions Loose in Southern California
Oct 16 2014 // When Richard Polizzi, chairman of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc. in Pasadena, Calif., adopted the lion as part of his logo, he never imagined just how popular that little company mascot would become in the...
California Has Another Great ShakeOut
Oct 16 2014 // At 10:16 a.m. on Thursday employees at Golden Bear Insurance Co. were all under their desks practicing good risk management. Oct. 16 marked another Great ShakeOut event in California. According to California Insurance...
Sindle Joins Hub International Commercial Division California
Oct 16 2014 // Hub International Insurance Service Inc. has named Christopher Sindle a sales consultant in the commercial division based in Folsom, Calif. In addition to his commercial brokerage production role, Sindle will serve as a...
California No-Bid Health Contracts Draws Probe
Oct 15 2014 // California’s health insurance exchange is facing calls for a state investigation of its contracting practices, while a state senator urged the agency to account for deals that steered millions of dollars to a firm...
EPIC in California adds Walker as Director of Healthcare Compliance
Oct 15 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Christopher Walker director of healthcare compliance and associate general counsel in employee benefits. Walker will be based in EPIC’s San Francisco, Calif. headquarters...
Experts: Insurance Distribution Future Online and Personalized
Oct 14 2014 // The future of insurance distribution was discussed at the CPCU Society’s annual All Industry Day in California on Tuesday. The day-long conference at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City included panels on the...
EPIC Co-founder Dan Francis to Leave the California Firm
Oct 14 2014 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Edgewood Partners Insurance Center Co-founder and Executive Chairman Dan Francis is leaving, the firm announced on Tuesday. His departure is effective Nov. 1, according to EPIC. “In...
Brandt Joins Esurance in California as Chief Claims Officer
Oct 14 2014 // Esurance has Eric Brandt managing director and chief claims officer. Brandt will oversee the strategic direction and management of Esurance’s claims function. Brandt will report to Gary Tolman and be based at...
Dearth of Insurance Coverage Complicates San Francisco Quake Risk
Oct 14 2014 // The San Francisco region will probably be struck by an earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.7 in coming decades, and most of the billions of dollars of damages wouldn’t be covered by insurance. A worst-case,...
California’s Industrial Director Challenges Workers’ Comp Report
Oct 13 2014 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations Director it taking a bit of umbrage with a study released last week that showed the state was ranked as the costliest for workers’ compensation. Despite major...
RMS: ‘Big One’ in Northern California Could Cause $200B in Losses
Oct 13 2014 // Earthquake risk in the San Francisco Bay Area is on the rise while earthquake insurance penetration statewide has dropped significantly since the Loma Prieta earthquake that rocked the Bay Area 25 years ago, causing nearly...
CSAA Insurance in California Names Meyer COO
Oct 10 2014 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer, has named Greg Meyer chief operating officer. Meyer most recently served as the senior personal lines executive at Tower Group and president of its reciprocal...
California Costliest State for Workers’ Comp, Report Shows
Oct 9 2014 // A state-by-state ranking of workers’ compensation premiums, one that states reportedly use as a motivational call to improve their systems, seems to call for more reform of California’s recently reformed...
Guerena Joins Woodruff-Sawyer in Southern California
Oct 9 2014 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Ron Guerena senior account executive and vice president in the firm’s Southern California property/casualty practice. Guerena will work on building the practice’s client...
Eleven Southern California Schools to Undergo Asbestos Testing
Oct 9 2014 // An Orange County school district will test every room in its 11 schools for asbestos after questions were raised about whether students were exposed to carcinogenic dust during construction projects earlier this school...
