Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Calif. Governor Green Lights Driverless Cars
Sep 26 2012 // California took the fast lane to the future on Tuesday when Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law that lets self-driving cars onto public roads. Brown rode to the signing ceremony at Google Inc. headquarters in the passenger seat...
SoCal Fire is Reminder Worst Could be Ahead
Sep 25 2012 // A 4-square-mile wildfire in a rural San Diego County community has destroyed roughly a dozen homes and has left one man dead, a sober reminder the state has a large number of high risk homes and that Southern...
BB&T Taps Robinson as Agency Operations Manager in Calif.
Sep 25 2012 // BB&T Insurance named Andrea Robinson agency operations manager for its Pleasanton, Calif. office. Robinson brings 20 years of experience in the insurance industry to her new role. She has experience at both carrier and...
Poms & Associates Names Boore VP in Northern California
Sep 24 2012 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Scott Boore vice president in the employee benefits and risk services groups in its Northern California office. Boore has more than 20...
N.Y. Court Grants Injunction in Aon, Alliant Employee Poaching Case
Sep 24 2012 // A New York court last week granted a new injunction in the ongoing legal fight between Aon and Alliant Insurance Services over alleged poaching of senior executives. The Supreme Court of the State of New York enjoined...
Judge Lets Wal-Mart Discrimination Case Proceed
Sep 24 2012 // A U.S. judge rejected Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s request to dismiss a gender discrimination case filed in California, but said he would rule later about whether the women plaintiffs had enough evidence to be certified as...
People – West
Sep 24 2012 // Denver, Colo.-based Van Gilder Insurance Corp. named Don Woods its new president. Woods is co-founder and CEO of Community Bankshares Inc. and its subsidiaries. Under Woods, Community Bankshares Inc. grew to over $2...
Report: Wildfires Pose Risk to Three Quarter-Million Western U.S. Homes
Sep 24 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic. CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
Calif. Lawsuit Claims Discrimination by In-N-Out Chain
Sep 24 2012 // A lawsuit filed on behalf of two black men in Oakland, Calif. claims In-N-Out Burger didn’t hire them because of their race and age. The suit filed in Alameda County Superior Court asks a judge to order the...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Reform Law at ‘Halftime’
Sep 20 2012 // Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles to look at California’s workers’ compensation reform law in detail and what must be done to implement that law by Jan. 1, 2013. When Gov. Jerry...
Poms Names Windom VP of Risk Management in Southern California
Sep 20 2012 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Jerry Windom vice president in the risk management group of the firm’s Woodland Hills office. Windom advises clients on personnel and...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Reform Dominates Conference
Sep 19 2012 // Senate Bill 863, or the more popular usage “SB 863,” was the phrase at the beginning, end or middle of many-a-conversation during the California Workers’ Compensation & Risk Conference on...
Study: More Than 2 Million California Homes Exposed To High Wildfire Danger
Sep 19 2012 // More than 2 million homes in California face “extreme wildfire hazards,” over 400,000 of which are in Los Angeles County, according to a study issued Wednesday by an insurance industry group. A study by the...
Brown Signs Calif. Workers’ Comp Bill
Sep 18 2012 // California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill to increase disability benefits for injured workers while taking a bite out of the rising cost of workers’ compensation insurance premiums. Lawmakers approved the...
Young Illegal Immigrants May Get Driver’s Licenses
Sep 16 2012 // When 17-year-old Alondra Esquivel needs to get from her rural central California home to classes at Fresno State University 20 miles (32 kilometers) away, she must rely on rides from her relatives or her boyfriend. Most...
Corporate Lawyers Rank California, Illinois, West Virgina Low for Legal Climate
Sep 14 2012 // Lawyers for U.S. companies say California, Illinois and West Virginia have some of the worst legal climates in the country for businesses, according to the latest survey by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform...
Consumer Watchdog Slams Calif. Prop. 33 Campaign over Libya Tragedy
Sep 13 2012 // The battle over an automobile insurance persistency initiative is heating up, with the latest volley over a radio advertisement targeting a military audience that opponents are calling on to be removed following the...
U. of California Sues Facebook, Wal-Mart, Disney Over Patents
Sep 13 2012 // A University of California patent licensee which has sued some of the biggest U.S. companies is taking on three more — Facebook Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the Walt Disney Co. Eolas Technologies Inc. and the...
Henry Named Director of Solar Underwriting for Assurant in Southern California
Sep 11 2012 // Assurant’s solar group named Cindy Henry as the new director of Solar Underwriting and Account Management. Henry will be based in Fountain Valley, Calif. and support the company’s solar insurance business and...
Metrolink Victims in California Claim Inadequate Compensation
Sep 11 2012 // As the fourth anniversary of a deadly Metrolink crash approaches, many survivors of the incident in Southern California say a federal liability cap has left them inadequately compensated. Just a year after a judge rationed...