Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Leavitt Group Names Sindle Adviser in Northern California
Oct 10 2012 // The Leavitt Group’s Sacramento, Calif. office named Chris Sindle as an adviser in the professional liability program. Sindle will provide risk management solutions for law firms, including malpractice audits,...
Sullivancurtismonroe Adds Mitchell In Southern California
Oct 10 2012 // SullivanCurtisMonroe Insurance Services LLC named Randall Mitchell as a property-casualty consultant in its Irvine, Calif. office. Mitchell will focus on building out the firm’s real estate and food divisions. He has...
Calif. Settles with Funeral Co. Over End-Of-Life Policies
Oct 10 2012 // California officials have reached a $25 million settlement with a company that sells end-of-life policies through funeral planners, state Controller John Chiang announced. The settlement with Forethought Group Inc., a...
Northern California-based Broker Group to Meet in Shanghai
Oct 9 2012 // The Worldwide Broker Network, a group headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., will hold an owners conference in Shanghai, China on Oct. 17 through Oct. 20 12. The event is expected to draw a gathering of roughly 150 owners and...
Southern California Educator Arrested For Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 9 2012 // A teaching assistant in Southern California has been arrested on several felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud. Gerard Padilla, 45, an employee of the Los Angeles County Office of Education, has been arrested...
California’s Prop. 33 Latest Battle Between Adversaries Joseph, Rosenfield
Oct 8 2012 // Billionaire insurance executive George Joseph has been fighting with consumer advocate Harvey Rosenfield for two decades over California’s landmark automobile insurance law. This November, the two are squaring off...
Court Grants Injunction in Aon, Alliant Employee Poaching Case
Oct 8 2012 // A New York court on Sept. 20 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...
People – West
Oct 8 2012 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. named Tim Troester vice president and branch manager for the newly formed Portland, Ore., branch of U.S. Risk Brokers Inc. Troester’s focus at U.S. Risk will be to develop relationships...
Studies: More Than 2 M California Homes Exposed To Wildfires; Hundreds of Thousands in West at ‘Very High Risk’
Oct 8 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 from an insurance industry group. A separate study shows at least...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Reform Law at ‘Halftime’
Oct 8 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. More articles in...
Business Moves – West
Oct 8 2012 // InsureZone, MSI Fort Worth, Texas-based InsureZone announced it has acquired Denver-based MSI Group, with agencies in 20 states. The purchase adds 63 agencies to InsureZone’s network/cluster program. MSI Group...
Calling Workers’ Comp Experts
Oct 8 2012 // Workers’ compensation reform has arrived — or is arriving to be more accurate — in California. When Gov. Jerry Brown last month signed Senate Bill 863, which is designed to increase disability benefits for...
Tax Group Sues to Block Calif. Firefighting Fee
Oct 7 2012 // A taxpayer group, joined by plaintiffs throughout California, has filed a lawsuit seeking to block a fee that is being assessed on more than 800,000 property owners to raise money for fire prevention. The Howard Jarvis...
Report: Calif. Workers’ Comp Impacted by Recession, Reform, Medical
Oct 7 2012 // A report out Friday by the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute rates California’s workers’ comp system against 15 other states, and the report details several key improvements to the system that...
Calif. State Fund Board: Drop Rates 7%
Oct 5 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund’s board voted on Friday for a 7 percent decrease in its 2013 rates, a move that reflects State Fund’s anticipated savings from a workers’ compensation...
Troubled Calif. Nuke Plant Aims To Restart Reactor
Oct 5 2012 // The operator of California’s troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant on Thursday proposed to restart one of the facility’s twin reactors after concluding it could be run safely despite damage to scores of tubes...
Father and Daughter in Central Calif. Workers’ Comp. Fraud Must Repay Over $600K
Oct 5 2012 // Jerry Buffington, 69, and Cynthia Russell, 47, have pled guilty in Kern County Superior Court to one count each of workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud and eight counts each of tax evasion and were ordered...
Calif. State Fund May Recommend Workers’ Comp Rate Drop in Days
Oct 4 2012 // Editor’s Note: This is the second 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. California’s...
Calif. Jury Awards $10.2M To Dirt Bike Rider For Knee Injury
Oct 4 2012 // A superior court jury in central California has awarded a man $10.2 million in damages that resulted from dirt bike collision in 2007 with another vehicle. Attorneys for Stockton resident Daniel Nixon, 50, say he received...
Best Agency to Work For: West
Oct 4 2012 // This year six agencies in all received top honors as a Best Agency to Work For. The Best Agencies to Work For in 2012 include: Bryan Insurance Agency, Graham, Texas; Meyer & Cook Insurance, Walnut Grove, California;...
