INSURANCE

Broker Hit with $300,000 Verdict: A Los Angeles Superior Court jury added a $200,000 punitive judgment to $100,000 previously awarded for damages against a West Covina insurance broker found to have sold worthless auto policies to City Garment Carriers, a small Los Angeles trucking firm. The jury found broker John Brittain and his Brittain Co. agency liable for fraud in the 1990 sale to City Garment of a policy issued by Southern Continental Insurance Co. Ltd., an unlicensed, Caribbean-based insurer that failed and left hundreds of California customers in the lurch. Brittain’s lawyer called the verdict unfair and said he was considering an appeal.