All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 3 2024 // Firefighters battling a California wildfire burning east of San Francisco have increased containment on the fire, but hot weather is in the forecast for the next few days.Nearly 500 firefighters, along with several air...
Jun 3 2024 // “The guys did get stung on a regular basis. Everyone got stung at least a couple of times.” — Fire Chief Travis Leary, of Clinton, Maine, said of first responders who had worked to ensure that the 15...
Jun 3 2024 // Neptune Flood, Charles River DataPrivate flood insurer Neptune Flood reported it acquired Charles River Data, a Boston-based data science consulting group. Charles River Data was founded by data scientists from Google and...
Jun 3 2024 // An investigation that began after an employee was found dead in a company owned semi-truck led to the arraignment of a California man on three felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud.Heigo Kubar, 84, of Fresno,...
Jun 3 2024 // Zurich North America, headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, named Kara Higginbotham head of professional liability and cyber for U.S. national accounts, leading a team of underwriters who serve Zurich’s largest U.S....
May 31 2024 // The California Supreme Court has 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:...
May 30 2024 // The heat dome that led to record-high temperatures in Mexico is forecast to expand northward and bring higher temperatures to parts of the Western U.S., according to AccuWeather.Meteorologists say 82% of Mexico was...
May 29 2024 // Insurers are praising new trailer bill language in the California budget that promises to expedite the home and auto insurance rate filing approval process.California Gov. Gavin Newsom first made the proposal to speed up...
May 29 2024 // A Yuma man has been arrested for allegedly starting a wildfire in a national wildlife preserve in southwest Arizona near the California border, according to authorities.Yuma County Sheriff’s officials said...
May 29 2024 // Tesla Inc. has reached a deal to resolve a lawsuit over the death of a Model S passenger in a fiery 2016 crash, marking the second time in two months the electric-vehicle maker has avoided a jury trial in California over a...
May 29 2024 // Katie Pope The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers named Katie Pope vice president, executive lines. Pope is based in Los Angeles. Pope began her insurance career at Lockton, where she was most recently an account executive....
May 28 2024 // Families of four of the five Marines killed when their Osprey crashed in California in June of 2022 filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the aircraft’s manufacturers failed to address known mechanical failures that...
May 28 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services acquired Nam International Insurance Services Inc. in Fremont, California. Nam was founded in March 2003 by Parvinder Janda to serve the insurance needs of individuals and businesses in the...
May 24 2024 // The California Senate approved a bipartisan package of 15 bills this that would increase penalties for organized crime rings, expand drug court programs and close a legal loophole to make it easier to prosecute auto...
May 24 2024 // The husband-and-wife owners of a janitorial company were arraigned on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud after an investigation allegedly found the couple underreported payroll for their company by more than $2.4...
May 23 2024 // California could eventually join the European Union in requiring all new cars to alert drivers when they break the speed limit, a proposal aimed at reducing traffic deaths that would likely impact motorists across the...
May 22 2024 // The owners of two Northern California mushroom farms where a farmworker killed seven people in back-to-back shootings last year will pay more than $450,000 in back wages and damages to 62 workers, the Labor Department...
May 22 2024 // Gallagher’s Cyber practice remains laser focused on emerging technology and the potential for increased risks as organizations begin to use them. Throughout 2024, we’re concentrated on evolving compliance...
May 22 2024 // U.S. auto safety investigators said on Monday they have launched an investigation into the April crash of a VinFast 0TL.F, VFS.O VF 8 electric vehicle in Pleasanton, California, in which a family of four died.The National...
May 21 2024 // California’s top state court on Tuesday will consider a labor union’s challenge to a ballot measure allowing app-based services such as Uber and Lyft to classify drivers in the state as independent contractors...