Inszone Insurance Services acquired Van Oppen & Co. 2 in Wyoming. Founded in 2008 by Rick van Oppen, the firm has specialized in serving the needs of the architectural, engineering and environmen...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/30/771507.htm
Capitola Insurance in California has completed its rebranding to Flow Specialty and the specialty wholesaler has added new leadership. David Derigiotis has been named president of brokerage and h...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/30/771290.htm
The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video foot...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/30/771812.htm
A freight train carrying fuel derailed and caught fire Friday near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, forcing the closure of an interstate highway that serves as a key trucking route. Initial pas...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/29/771927.htm
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara made several appointments to the state’s curriculum board and insurance diversity task force. Lara named Aretha Hartley as the newest member of th...
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Warren Buffett’s warning that wildfires have turned utilities across the western US into risky investments is mistaken — at least in California, according to the head of the state’s largest...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/29/771824.htm
The family of a Nigerian business leader who died in a Southern California helicopter crash that killed five others in February filed a lawsuit claiming the flight should have been grounded becau...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/26/769399.htm
Orion180 is expanding its homeowners insurance services to Arizona under a push by the company into the Western U.S. Orion180 currently operates in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Mississippi...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/26/771438.htm
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California submitted its Sept. 1, 2024, pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance, proposing advisory rates on aver...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/26/771670.htm
New legislation aimed at reducing workplace violence in California vastly increases employers’ responsibilities and hands workers’ compensation insurers an unprecedented oversight role that i...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2024/04/25/771384.htm
PCF Insurance Services in Utah closed $400 million in incremental debt financing led by Blue Owl. The financing was materially oversubscribed and was upsized from $300 million to $400 million in ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/25/771427.htm
A federal jury said BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people who were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through a Montana town where thousands h...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/25/771483.htm
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers named Neal Rubin senior vice president, benefits. Rubin is based in Irvine, California. Rubin has more than 40 years of experience in the Southern California...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/25/770422.htm
AM Best placed under review with developing implications the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a” (Excellent) of the...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/24/771066.htm
Omaha National Group Inc. acquired Sutter Insurance Co., a California domiciled carrier. Sutter Insurance has been renamed Omaha National Casualty Co. Omaha National also owns Omaha National Insu...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/24/770385.htm
Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving as a single mother of two to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in Augus...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/24/771283.htm
BNSF Railway attorneys told a Montana jury that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an asbestos-contaminated Montana town, one of the dead...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/23/771014.htm
Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, acquired Advanced Benefits, based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Founded in 1993, Advanced Benefits offers employee benefit programs, ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/23/770466.htm
Commercial auto is a tough topic in any business segment, but it’s tougher still for cannabis businesses. For our latest podcast, we spoke with Griffen Kapulica, broker relationship manager for...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/22/770411.htm
GeoVera Insurance Holdings entered into a definitive agreement to sell its insurance carriers and managing general agent businesses. Upon completion of the deals, a newly formed entity, GeoVera N...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/22/770395.htm
More than half a year after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century burned through a historic Maui town, officials are still trying to determine exactly what went wrong and how to prev...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/22/770829.htm
CRC Group, headquartered in Honolulu, has integrated INSUREtrust, formerly housed in Starwind, into its wholesale brokerage division. This integration bolsters CRC Group’s cyber capabilities an...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/22/770353.htm
Risk Strategies named Bryan Newman private client services leader for the West region. He will manage the region’s sales and service teams and key carrier and third-party relationships. Newman ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/19/768649.htm
Several lawsuits in California were filed against Ovation Fertility, a large network of fertility clinics, were filed by former patients whose embryos were destroyed due to a reported critical er...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/19/770669.htm
California’s already strained property insurance market is facing a new challenge as two more insurers, Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co., plan to withdraw from...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/18/770680.htm
Few people in Florida and California will be surprises to hear that the majority of homeowners in those states have been affected by rising property insurance costs. A survey by Redfin, a U.S. re...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/18/770608.htm
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Stung by paying billions of dollars for settlements and trials, chemical giant Bayer has been lobbying lawmakers in three states to pass bills providing it a legal shiel...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/18/770473.htm
An attorney for two people who died of a rare lung cancer argued this week for a jury to hold BNSF Railway responsible for pollution in a small Montana town near the U.S.-Canada border where thou...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/18/770031.htm
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s governing committee voted on Wednesday to authorize the WCIRB to submit a Sept. 1, 2024 Pure Premium Rate Filing to the Calif...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/17/770521.htm
Maui Fire Department officials defended their initial response to what became the deadliest fire in Hawaii history, saying they stayed at the scene of the Aug. 8 blaze until it was fully extingui...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2024/04/17/770320.htm