Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Offshore Fracking Reports Sought By EPA
Jan 10 2014 // Federal environmental regulators will start requiring oil and gas operations off the Southern California coast to report chemicals discharged into the ocean from fracking. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on...
California’s EPIC Acquires Georgia’s McCart Group as Part of National Expansion
Jan 9 2014 // EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant based in San Francisco, said it has acquired The McCart Group of Duluth, Georgia. The McCart Group...
Alliant in California Launches Alliant Americas
Jan 9 2014 // Alliant Insurance Services has launched Alliant Americas. The new organization will expand Alliant’s middle market presence through strategic acquisitions and investments. Alliant Americas’ acquisition criteria...
Gorst & Compass Taps Chesnutt For Northern California Expansion
Jan 8 2014 // Gorst & Compass Insurance is opening an office in Northern California and has hired Brad Chesnutt to expand the Gorst & Compass brand into the region. Chesnutt joins Gorst & Compass as senior...
Wells Fargo in California Rebrands Special Risks to Safehold
Jan 8 2014 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Wells Fargo Insurance is rebranding its special risks group to Safehold Special Risk Inc. The new entity combines the division’s five practices: Wells Fargo Special Risks, Digital Risk,...
Final Order Issued In $1.15 Billion California Lead Paint Case
Jan 8 2014 // Sherwin-Williams Co., NL Industries Inc. and ConAgra Grocery Products LLC were ordered by a judge to pay $1.15 billion to replace or contain lead paint in millions of homes after losing a public-nuisance lawsuit brought by...
EPIC Taps Employee Benefits Pro Davis in California
Jan 6 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Sama Hershey Davis in it employee benefits consulting practice in California. Hershey Davis has 15 years of experience in healthcare, benefits consulting, human resources,...
Ascension Names Lopez to Executive Post in Northern California
Jan 2 2014 // Ascension Insurance Inc. named Keri Lopez to an executive leadership position for their Northern California benefits operations. Lopez will also continue to work with select mid to large clients, designing and managing...
Southern California Bus Company Ordered to Cease Operations
Dec 30 2013 // The U.S. Department of Transportation ordered a Los Angeles-based bus company to cease operations after federal safety investigators said they discovered its vehicles were allowed on the road with serious safety defects...
Sharks, Beer Among Most Popular Headlines in West
Dec 27 2013 // For years newshounds have endeavored to figure out a way to predict what stories will prove most popular with readers. While a few web news aggregators have had some measure of success and have steadily drawn in readers...
California Servers Awarded $5.7M In Age Discrimination Suit
Dec 27 2013 // A jury has awarded nearly $5.7 million to four servers who alleged they were fired from a Los Angeles restaurant because of their ages. City News Service reported Superior Court jurors last week awarded damages to the...
White House Rebranding Obamacare for ‘Young Invincibles’
Dec 24 2013 // Last summer, White House officials planning a nationwide push to urge young adults to enroll in new health insurance plans had a big problem: Polls showed that many young, healthy people who could be key to the success of...
California Mom Agrees To Settle Suit Over Child Autopsy Photo
Dec 23 2013 // A woman who sued San Diego County over the release of an autopsy photo of her 2-year-old son has settled the privacy case for $125,000. A lawyer for Brenda Marsh tells U-T San Diego that she settled the case before state...
Insurance Questions, Lawsuits Arise in Wake of Target’s Data Breach
Dec 22 2013 // U.S. retail giant Target Corp. is busy dealing with the aftermath of the massive data breach that exposed account details of some 40 million credit and debit cards. Already, at least two lawsuits seeking class-action...
Milliman to Acquire McGinn Actuaries in California
Dec 20 2013 // Seattle, Wash.-based Milliman Inc., a consulting and actuarial firm, has acquired McGinn Actuaries Ltd., an Anaheim, Calif.-based consultancy specializing in multiemployer pension plans. In addition to serving the...
Wildfire in California’s Big Sur 79% Contained
Dec 20 2013 // Rain and higher humidity on Thursday helped firefighters battling a wildfire in California’s Big Sur region that has destroyed an estimated 22 homes. The fire in the Los Padres National Forest was 79 percent...
Former California Broker Charged With Identity Theft And Forgery
Dec 19 2013 // Former insurance agent Eugene Shy-Ren Hsu, 31, of West Covina, Calif., was arrested by Department of Insurance officers and charged with multiple felony counts. The charges include grand theft, forgery, and identity theft...
California’s $1.1B Paint Ruling Could Prompt More Suits
Dec 19 2013 // Paint makers could face a surge of lawsuits after a California state court judge ordered three companies to pay $1.1 billion to help government agencies get rid of lead from an estimated 5 million homes in the state. The...
Rate Hikes in California Workers’ Comp: SNL Financial
Dec 18 2013 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc. hiked rates by 15 percent on its California workers’ compensation business in 2013, and it is not alone. SNL data shows multiple companies took rate during the first half of 2013. The...
Paint Manufacturers Held Liable for $1.1 Billion in California Lead Paint Case
Dec 18 2013 // Sherwin-Williams Co., NL Industries Inc. and ConAgra Grocery Products LLC were ordered by a judge to pay $1.1 billion to replace or contain lead paint in millions of homes after losing a public-nuisance lawsuit brought by...
