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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...

More Evacuations in Northern California Wildfire

Sep 4 2014 // Crews battling a wildfire in a far Northern California forest have expanded a mandatory evacuation order and expect another day of gusty winds and dry conditions that could push the fire over containment lines and into...

California Judges Recommend $1.4B Safety-related Penalty Against PG&E

Sep 4 2014 // California regulatory judges recommended a $1.4 billion penalty on Tuesday _ the largest safety-related levy ever against a public utility in the state _ for a fiery 2010 gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people in...

Hay Prices Soaring Thanks to California Drought

Sep 4 2014 // The cost of feeding California’s horses and cows is skyrocketing as the state’s persistent drought sends hay prices to historic highs. Tracy Underwood of the Santa Rosa Equestrian Center told the Press-Democrat...