All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 17 2024 // Strong winds drove a wildfire that forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 visitors to a recreation area and threatened nearby properties over the weekend.Flames burned through dry brush along Interstate 5 north of Los...
Jun 17 2024 // The California Supreme Court resolved a question about insurance coverage for COVID-19 business shutdowns in the issue of a virus exclusion in a ruling that is consistent with the vast majority of courts nationwide: the...
Jun 14 2024 // Apple on Thursday was hit with a proposed class action accusing the tech giant of paying more than 12,000 female employees in California less than men with comparable jobs.The lawsuit filed in state court in San Francisco...
Jun 14 2024 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office reached a $658,948 settlement with a Los Angeles residential care facility. The settlement was to compensate 34 workers who were reportedly not paid for all hours worked....
Jun 14 2024 // Ricardo Lara California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara appointed Alycia Anderson, Kelly Huang and Marquita Thomas to the state’s Insurance Diversity Task Force. The task force oversees the department’s...
Jun 13 2024 // For two decades, a California law has helped workers sue the world’s biggest companies. Drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. won a $20 million settlement, Google employees secured $27 million over complaints of...
Jun 13 2024 // Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price’s Consumer Justice Bureau has sued multiple home insurance carriers in California, including Farmers Insurance Exchange, alleging they’re operating a scheme that...
Jun 12 2024 // Rate increases do not necessarily erode customer satisfaction with auto insurers, according to the J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Auto Insurance Study.The consumer intelligence company reported that when customers have a high level...
Jun 12 2024 // As lobbyists for businesses and labor groups negotiate with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration on how to amend a unique California labor law that allows workers to sue their bosses, the two sides seem to agree on at...
Jun 12 2024 // A pair of businessmen were arraigned on multiple felony counts including insurance fraud, grand theft, and tax fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found they allegedly underreported over $29.2...
Jun 11 2024 // Tesla Inc. failed to persuade an administrative judge to dismiss claims by a California regulator that the company overstated its vehicles’ self-driving capabilities — one of several ongoing regulatory...
Jun 11 2024 // A U.S. appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by Uber and subsidiary Postmates to revive a challenge to a California law that could force the companies to treat drivers as employees rather than independent contractors who...
Jun 10 2024 // California’s Central Valley will have another round of searing temperatures that will boost energy demand this week, reaching a high of 103F (39C) in Sacramento on Tuesday.A heat advisory is in place for the state...
Jun 10 2024 // Elon Musk and his companies are embroiled in dozens of lawsuits, ranging from fatal crashes blamed on Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot system to civil rights complaints over the treatment of employees.Tesla’s board and...
Jun 10 2024 // Lax oversight by California’s transportation agency contributed to a destructive blaze last year that consumed a vital section of a Los Angeles freeway used by hundreds of thousands of commuters, according to a state...
Jun 7 2024 // A California city has been awarded a grant to study insurance protections from sea level rise.The City of Imperial Beach received an $848,000 grant to develop flooding adaptation strategies to help prepare residents for...
Jun 7 2024 // Emerald Bay Risk Solutions and Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. have launched a commercial earthquake facility that provides difference in conditions insurance policies for medium to large businesses. Arrowhead EQ...
Jun 5 2024 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Combined Benefits Inc., Combined Commercial Insurance Services LLC., and Combined Employer Services Inc. Donny Woo, CEO, and Jonathan Zhao, vice president of payroll, and the...
Jun 4 2024 // California’s first big fire of the season is nearly fully contained, as rising temperatures across the West this week are increasing the risk of wildfires.The Corral fire, burning east of San Francisco in San Joaquin...
Jun 3 2024 // Severe heat will raise the risk of brush and grassfires from central and northern California, also bringing a moderate to and high risk of wildfires in parts of Arizona and New Mexico, a forecast out on Monday shows.The...