Latest California Headlines
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Barney & Barney Names Four New Principals in California
Jan 8 2013 // San Diego, Calif.-based Barney & Barney LLC named four senior executives as principals of the firm in California. The new owners are: Dianne Wingfield and Todd Bennett, executives in the firm’s employee benefits...
Bolton & Co. Acquires Preferred Specialty in Southern California
Jan 8 2013 // Pasadena, Calif.-based Bolton & Co. acquired Preferred Specialty Insurance Services, an independent insurance agency providing insurance services in the San Gabriel Valley. As part of the transaction, effective Dec....
Tanker Hits Bay Bridge in Northern California
Jan 7 2013 // A tanker struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Monday, the Sacramento Bee newspaper is reporting. There were no immediate reports of leaks and the bridge was open to traffic, according to the story, which reported...
G2 Insurance Taps Buchanan and Heyneker in Northern California
Jan 7 2013 // David Buchanan and Toni Heyneker have joined G2 Insurance Services in Northern California. Heyneker joined as director of operations. Heyneker, who has 33 years of experience in insurance, spent much of her career in...
EPIC Names Parreira Principal in Central California
Jan 7 2013 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Terri Parreira as a property and casualty insurance producer and principal in its Fresno, Calif. office. Parreira is ninth new team member in EPIC’s Fresno office in the past...
California Attorney General Sues Conocophillips, Phillips 66
Jan 7 2013 // California Attorney General Kamala Harris is suing ConocoPhillips and its spinoff, Phillips 66, over underground tanks used to store gasoline at more than 500 gas stations in the state. Harris alleges the companies have...
DIR Gets Ball Rolling on California Workers’ Comp Reform
Jan 4 2013 // The Department of Industrial Relations on Friday announced its new regulations implementing provisions of California’s workers’ compensation reform law. The law, Senate Bill 863, will take effect in several...
Midwestern Taps Laughlin for California Workers’ Comp Expansion
Jan 4 2013 // Midwestern Insurance Alliance LLC named Keith Laughlin vice president of underwriting for its California workers’ compensation division. Laughlin will be part of MWIA’s expansion into the California...
EPIC Acquires Homeplace Insurance Brokers in Southern California
Jan 4 2013 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center entered into an agreement to acquire Ontario, Calif.-based Homeplace Insurance Brokers Inc. The Ontario team will report to Dan Ryan, EPIC’s managing principal in Orange...
Murder Witness Sues California National Guard for Retaliation
Jan 2 2013 // A sergeant is suing his employer, the California Army National Guard, for alleged retaliation after he testified in the murder trial of a colleague who was later convicted of killing a pregnant recruit. City News Service...
California Court: Parks Not Liable For Bumper Car Injuries
Jan 2 2013 // Amusement parks are not financially responsible for injuries suffered on bumper cars, the California Supreme Court ruled in an opinion published Monday. The high court said people who ride bumper cars under normal...
Worker’s Comp Reforms, Portable Persistency Top West’s 2012 Headlines
Dec 31 2012 // Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines. Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best...
Brown & Riding in California Merges with Travis-Pedersen
Dec 28 2012 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Brown & Riding and Chicago, Ill.-based Travis-Pedersen have inked a deal that creates a large property/casualty wholesaler. The companies began discussions about combining their complementary...
R-T to Acquire Workers’ Comp Wholesaler IFIS in California
Dec 28 2012 // R-T Specialty LLC entered into a definitive agreement to acquire West Coast workers’ compensation specialist International Facilities Insurance Services. Chicago, Ill.-based R-T is the brokerage arm of Ryan Specialty...
Toyota Claimants Not Part of $1.1 Billion Settlement Face Uphill Climb
Dec 28 2012 // Toyota Motor Corp. eliminated a huge obstacle with a U.S. settlement over unintended acceleration in its cars and trucks, leaving it to fight smaller cases that will be harder for plaintiffs to prove and less likely to...
Thousands of Drivers Caught In Northern California Cell Phone Crackdown
Dec 26 2012 // Nearly 3,000 drivers were caught breaking cell phone rules during a crackdown in Sacramento County in Northern California. California was one of two states to receive grants for high-visibility law enforcement pilot...
Toyota to Settle Acceleration Cases for More Than $1 Billion
Dec 26 2012 // Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed to spend $1.1 billion to settle sweeping U.S. class-action litigation over claims that millions of its vehicles accelerate unintentionally, as the Japanese automaker seeks to move past the...
Southern California Jury Awards $4.5 Million to Filipino Teachers
Dec 20 2012 // A federal jury awarded $4.5 million to Southern California Filipino teachers who paid large fees to obtain U.S. jobs through a placement agency. Jurors on Monday found that Los Angeles-based Universal Placement...
Carriers ‘Uncertain’ About California Workers’ Comp Reform
Dec 19 2012 // Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles to look at California’s workers’ compensation reform law, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2013. Insurance carriers, along with the many stakeholders...
U.S. Slaps Japanese Company on California Nuclear Power Plant Work
Dec 19 2012 // A Japanese company that manufactured the troubled steam generators at a key nuclear power plant in southern California might be looking for fixes with the wrong test equipment, U.S. federal regulators have disclosed. A...
