Latest California Headlines
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California Fire’s Rapid Growth Draws Droves of Firefighters
Sep 17 2014 // Just days after a wildfire tore through a small Northern California town and destroyed scores of homes, crews on Wednesday battled another fast-moving blaze in the region that was also threatening residences. Hundreds of...
NFP in California Names Ennis Vice President
Sep 17 2014 // San Jose, Calif.-based NFP National Financial Partners Corp. has announced that Robert Ennis has joined the firm as vice president of employee benefits. Ennis has extensive benefits knowledge and leadership experience. He...
100 Homes Destroyed by Northern California Wildfire
Sep 16 2014 // A wind-driven fire cut through a small California town near the Oregon border on Monday damaging or destroying 100 homes and prompting evacuation orders for at least 1,500 people, authorities said. The town near the base...
Hurricane Odile Brings Storm Surge, Flooding to Mexican Peninsula
Sep 15 2014 // Hurricane Odile, the strongest to hit Baja California Sur in decades, weakened slightly as it battered the Mexican peninsula with high winds and rain. Odile went ashore near the resort city of Cabo San Lucas at about 10:45...
Mexico Issues Hurricane Warning as Odile Strikes
Sep 15 2014 // Mexico issued a hurricane warning for parts of Baja California as Odile struck the resort area of Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip of the peninsula. Mexico declared a red alert along the coastline as well as the mainland...
California Workers’ Comp Kaleidoscope Through Conference-goers Eyes
Sep 12 2014 // Rick Hudson was sitting at his booth at the California Workers’ Compensation & Risk Conference on Thursday scanning emails on his smartphone during a slow period when he was asked what the most significant change...
California Drivers Lose $44B Over Worn-Out Roads Cost, Report Says
Sep 12 2014 // California’s worn-out, congested roads and bridges are costing drivers $44 billion a year, a report released today shows. Higher vehicle operating costs, congestion-related delays and traffic accidents cost $2,458...
Southern California Fire Danger Rises Amid Heat Wave
Sep 12 2014 // Forecasters say a heat wave building across Southern California will elevate fire danger through early next week. The National Weather Service says temperatures will edge upward to around 100 degrees in warmest areas...
California Earthquake Claims First Death
Sep 12 2014 // A 65-year-old woman who suffered a head injury when a television struck her during last month’s earthquake in California’s wine country has died – the first death attributed to the magnitude-6.0 temblor,...
American Apparel Settles California Worker Death Suit For $1M
Sep 11 2014 // American Apparel will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of an employee in a knitting machine accident. The Orange County district attorney’s office announced the settlement Tuesday. The worker’s...
Champion Risk Taps Crawford in California
Sep 10 2014 // San Diego, Calif.-based Champion Risk & Insurance Services L.P. announced that Marc Crawford has joined the firm as a producer. Prior to Champion Risk, Crawford worked for the Leavitt Group, where he handled complex...
EPIC Names McClellan Regional Director in Southern California
Sep 10 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Tiffany McClellan regional director of employee benefits. McClellan will focus on growing EPIC’s employee benefits consulting business in Southern California, recruiting...
Agent Steals More Than $100K From California Businesses
Sep 8 2014 // Isidro Santillan, 53, of Pacoima, Calif., has been arrested and charged with 13 counts of grand theft and three counts of commercial burglary. Santillan allegedly stole more than $100,000 by selling insurance policies and...
Report from California Agency Looks at Millennials, Baby Boomers
Sep 8 2014 // Millennials are driving a greater need for a more flexible auto insurance market, while Baby Boomers are proving new opportunities for independent agents, according to a study from a general agency headquartered in San...
California Chiropractor Charged In Insurance Fraud Scheme
Sep 8 2014 // A Riverside County, Calif. chiropractor is accused of masterminding an elaborate fraud scheme that bilked insurance companies out of millions of dollars. The Press-Enterprise reports Peyman Heidary is charged with heading...
Report: 1-in-6 Construction Workers in California Part of ‘Informal Economy’
Sep 8 2014 // A report by the nonprofit research group Economic Roundtable released over the Labor Day holiday found that one-in-six construction workers in California fell into the state’s “informal economy,” costing...
People – West
Sep 8 2014 // Capital Insurance Group, a regional property/casualty insurer serving the Western U.S., has named L. Arnold Chatterton as president and CEO. The decision by the board of directors and the appointment follows Peter...
California San Andreas Quake Experiment Could Lose Funding
Sep 5 2014 // Scientists seeking to put seismic sensors deep in the San Andreas fault to study the mechanics of earthquakes are in danger of losing their funding, a newspaper reported. The National Science Foundation has said it is no...
Paleo Mega-Drought Bleeds All Over Western U.S.
Sep 4 2014 // A blood-red blotch that stains California kind of looks like its own nation slowly overgrowing the Western region of the U.S. map. Despite the gore, the latest version of the U.S. Drought Monitor map just out today...
Two Plead Guilty in Iowa to Defrauding AIG, Face Decades in Prison
Sep 4 2014 // Former Iowa resident Christina M. Pender and California resident Robert K. Taylor have pled guilty to defrauding insurance company AIG out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...
