All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 2 2020 // California regulators are being asked to fine Pacific Gas & Electric nearly $166 million for failing to properly inform customers before it cut power to millions of people last year.The sweeping outages without proper...
Nov 2 2020 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Newfront Insurance has named Jason Vanderyacht a principal and logistics practice leader. Vanderyacht comes from Alliant, where as vice president. He was with Roanoke Trade before that. Jason...
Nov 2 2020 // The race for driverless autonomous vehicles is heating up and in October, Cruise became the first to receive a permit to test cars without anyone in them on the streets of San Francisco from California’s Department...
Nov 2 2020 // California’s insurance commissioner in late October pledged to step up efforts to protect the state’s residents from wildfires and address a pullback of private insurers from the state’s riskiest...
Nov 2 2020 // The law firm CaseyGerry has filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court on behalf of the parents of Le’Sharia Bre’Aun Steele, a 28-year old flight attendant from Alabama who died in San Diego, Calif. after...
Oct 30 2020 // A San Francisco Bay Area city has agreed to pay $7.3 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a man who died after an officer placed him in a controversial neck hold that has since been banned in California in the wake...
Oct 29 2020 // Michael Lynn Cooper, 55, of Ontario, Calif., was charged with multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and grand theft after allegedly misrepresenting the facts of a collision to his insurance company to receive a payout...
Oct 29 2020 // A new report out shows challenges current fire management policies in California, proposes a new framework for understanding the total cost of wildfire in the state and suggests that health impacts from smoke my represent...
Oct 29 2020 // Correction: In an earlier version of this story, the Associated Press misspelled the last name of Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy.Facing extreme wildfire conditions this week that included hurricane-level...
Oct 29 2020 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff Sawyer has named Mark McEvoy its property practice leader. McEvoy is based in San Francisco and will lead the practice nationally. McEvoy has more than 13 years of experience in both...
Oct 28 2020 // The election is nearly here, and while it’s been quite a year all around, things could have been worse for the insurance industry.When the year started, insurance industry lobbyists were facing a big battle, and not...
Oct 28 2020 // Claims adjuster, Agop Sarafian, 65, of La Crescenta, Calif., and chiropractor, Shahe Topjian, D.C. 65, of Granada Hills, Calif., were arrested on felony insurance fraud charges after allegedly conspiring to defraud...
Oct 28 2020 // Southern California Edison said its equipment may have sparked a fast-moving wildfire that forced evacuation orders for some 100,000 people and seriously injured two firefighters on Monday as powerful winds across the...
Oct 28 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has added Christine Foster to the Woodland Hills, Calif., office. Foster has more than 27 years of experience. She was previously with Foster & Associates She has also worked for...
Oct 27 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has issued a notice closing the record for the Jan. 1, 2021 workers’ compensation pure premium rate filing.The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of...
Oct 27 2020 // Crews tried to beat back two out-of-control wildfires in Southern California on Tuesday that have kept tens of thousands of people out of their homes.Fierce winds that drove twin fires through brushy hills near cities in...
Oct 27 2020 // A judge has given final approval to a $78 million settlement by a medical helicopter company that was sued by its California flight crew employees over unpaid overtime and missed breaks.The decision last week by Alameda...
Oct 26 2020 // Large swaths of California had no electricity Monday as utilities tried to prevent the chance of their equipment sparking wildfires while the fire-weary state was buffeted by powerful winds and dangerously dry weather...
Oct 26 2020 // The law firm CaseyGerry has filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court on behalf of the parents of Le’Sharia Bre’Aun Steele, a 28-year old flight attendant from Alabama who died in San Diego, Calif. after...
Oct 23 2020 // Swiss Re Capital Markets has successfully structured and placed the issuance of USD $775 million of insurance-linked securities by Ursa Re II Ltd. to be used for the protection of the California Earthquake Authority.CEA...