All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 8 2021 // A handful of workers’ compensation bills make their way through state Legislature every year that catch the attention of those watching the space – for better or worse.A few bills this year have a pair of industry...
Apr 8 2021 // The California FAIR Plan Association is publicly supporting a bill to amend the California Insurance Code to allow the FAIR Plan to write commercial coverage for permanent structures on farms.The California Fair Access to...
Apr 8 2021 // A California prosecutor has filed 33 criminal charges accusing troubled Pacific Gas & Electric of inadvertently injuring six firefighters and endangering public health with smoke and ash in a 2019 fire blamed on its...
Apr 8 2021 // Sports governing organizations such as those for swimming and gymnastics have a duty to protect young athletes from sexual and other abuse and can be legally liable if they don’t, the California Supreme Court has...
Apr 7 2021 // Brokerslink has entered into a service partnership with B. Riley Advisory Services Group in Los Angeles, Calif. B. Riley’s compliance, risk and resilience practice specializes in business continuity, cybersecurity...
Apr 7 2021 // The son of a California man who choked to death during an amateur taco eating contest at a minor league baseball game is suing the event’s organizers for negligence.Eighteen-year-old Marshall Hutchings’ lawsuit...
Apr 6 2021 // Roughly three dozen pieces of California legislation are directly related to wildfire, and while those bills should hold much interest for the insurance community, there are other bills making their rounds that should draw...
Apr 5 2021 // La Jolla, Calif.-based Palomar Holdings Inc. announced that through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Palomar Specialty Insurance Co. and Palomar Excess and Surplus Insurance Co., the company has successfully closed a $400...
Apr 5 2021 // A California federal court has declined to get involved with a lawsuit that Applied Underwriters and the California Insurance Co. filed against the California Department of Insurance.The case against the CDI is based upon...
Apr 5 2021 // A California bill to establish a statewide medical provider network for employees is raising a few eyebrows.Assembly Bill 1465 would require the administrative director of the state’s workers’ compensation...
Apr 1 2021 // Alaska could face “California-style” blackouts as climate change increases the state’s wildfire risk.That’s according to an article this week in the Anchorage Daily News. The article centers on...
Apr 1 2021 // San Diego, Calif.-based Champion Risk & Insurance Services has hired Kristy Neal as director of operations and Rachel Peretz to lead thee marketing and communications departmentNeal is charged with making the agency...
Mar 31 2021 // The mother of a Black 12-year-old boy is seeking damages against a Southern California school district after her son’s teacher went on a half-hour tirade laced with racism and profanity.Katura Stokes filed a damage...
Mar 31 2021 // California’s U.S. senators and nearly two-dozen representatives are asking the Agriculture and Interior departments to transition their agencies to a year-round wildland workforce because blazes are no longer limited...
Mar 31 2021 // Formerly licensed insurance agent, Mandy Pruitt, 42, of Visalia, Calif., was arraigned today on one count of grand theft after she allegedly stole more than $4,400 from a client and used the money to pay for personal...
Mar 30 2021 // San Diego County has so far spent more than $4 million to settle a dozen lawsuits brought after a sheriff’s deputy admitted to on-duty misconduct with 16 women, a newspaper reported Sunday.The Union-Tribune cited...
Mar 29 2021 // A piece of California legislation to establish a statewide medical provider network for employees is raising a few eyebrows.Assembly Bill 1465 would require the administrative director of the state’s workers’...
Mar 29 2021 // A federal judge overseeing Pacific Gas & Electric’s criminal probation said Tuesday that he is considering requiring the utility to be more aggressive about turning off its electricity lines near tall trees, a...
Mar 29 2021 // A former Uber driver in Central California was found guilty of sexually assaulting and stealing from five passengers.Jurors took less than three hours to convict Alfonso Alarcon Nunez of 13 felonies, including three...
Mar 24 2021 // Angel Maces, 23, of San Jacinto, Calif., was arraigned for felony insurance fraud after allegedly misrepresenting symptoms following a work-related injury in order to receive over $42,000 in undeserved workers’...