All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 25 2021 // Personal information from students at a California college who requested a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine has been posted online after an apparent data breach.The records from about 130 students at...
Aug 24 2021 // An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.0 shook an agricultural area of southeastern California early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. The quake struck at 7:57 a.m. south of the Salton Sea, about 7...
Aug 24 2021 // More than 13,500 firefighters were working Monday to contain a dozen large California wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to flee to safety.After an extensive review of fire...
Aug 23 2021 // Alliant Insurance Services has acquired Northern California-based ASURA Risk in San Ramon, Calif.Kevin Kilty, principal with ASURA Risk, along with fellow principals Greg Miller and Jon Wheeler, and the entire ASURA team,...
Aug 23 2021 // A judge Friday struck down a California ballot measure that exempted Uber and other app-based ride-hailing and delivery services from a state law requiring drivers to be classified as employees eligible for benefits and...
Aug 23 2021 // Lockton Insurance Brokers LLC named Alex Michon president of its Sacramento, Calif., operations.Michon specializes in managed care and multinational organizations that require complex regulatory compliance. Michon has...
Aug 20 2021 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is offering a 30-day credit extension to policyholders affected by wildfires currently burning in Northern California counties declared states of emergency by Gov.Gavin...
Aug 20 2021 // Formerly licensed insurance agent Robert Stoddard, 66, of San Clemente, Calif., was arrested this week after a California Department of Insurance investigation found he allegedly stole $1.2 million from more than 20...
Aug 20 2021 // Smoke from California’s wildfires choked people on the East Coast. Flames wiped out a Gold Rush-era town. The acreage burned would dwarf the state of Rhode Island.Images of homes engulfed in flames and mountains...
Aug 19 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday issued a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance companies from non-renewing or cancelling residential property insurance policies.The action is intended to aid...
Aug 19 2021 // As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a deepening drought threatens one of the...
Aug 19 2021 // There are over 10,000 firefighters battling unprecedented blazes in California, but that isn’t enough, and the state is having a hard time finding more as flames rage across the western U.S. and Canada.Twelve major...
Aug 18 2021 // A federal judge has thrown out an $87 million lawsuit that a San Francisco school board member filed against the district and her colleagues after they voted to strip her of senior board positions because of tweets that...
Aug 18 2021 // Northern California wildfires that incinerated two mountain communities continued marching through the Sierra Nevada while a utility purposely blacked out as many as 51,000 customers to prevent new blazes.Two weeks after...
Aug 18 2021 // The J. Morey Company Inc. Insurance Agents & Brokers acquired Aihara & Associates Insurance Services Inc. in Los Angeles, Calif.Terms of the deal, which is effective April 1, were not disclosed. Aihara &...
Aug 17 2021 // Thousands of homes in Northern California remain threatened by the nation’s largest wildfire as unstable weather creates a high danger of new blazes erupting across the West.Weekend thunderstorms across the northern...
Aug 16 2021 // California workers’ compensation written premium for the first quarter of 2021 was 13% below that for the first quarter of 2020, according to a quarterly experience report issued by the Workers’ Compensation...
Aug 13 2021 // Wildfires in Montana threatened rural towns and ranchland while victims of a California blaze returned to their incinerated community, even as the U.S. West faced another round of dangerous weather and smoke pollution...
Aug 13 2021 // The California Supreme Court declined to consider reining in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s emergency powers during the coronavirus pandemic, leaving in place a lower court’s ruling that the governor acted within his...
Aug 12 2021 // OLI Insurance Services Inc. acquired Walton and Associates Insurance Services.San Jose, Calif.-based Walton and Associates focuses on a variety of commercial lines and personal insurance products for clients in the Bay...