All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 23 2020 // In May 2012, Hanson and Michael Rowe noticed an overpowering smell, like rotten eggs, seeping from an abandoned gas well on their land in Kentucky. The fumes made the retired couple feel nauseous, dizzy, and short of...
Jun 23 2020 // A U.S. federal appeals court on Monday blocked California from requiring that Bayer AG label its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup with a cancer warning, handing the company a victory in its ongoing litigation over the...
Jun 22 2020 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Worldwide Facilities has named Brad Perilman a senior executive vice president for mergers & acquisitions. Perilman will lead Worldwide Facilities’ M&A activities. His...
Jun 22 2020 // PG&E Corp. said its Chapter 11 reorganization plan has been confirmed by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, bringing the power provider one step closer to emerging from...
Jun 19 2020 // Fairfield, Calif.-based GeoVera Insurance Holdings Ltd. has named John L. Forney CEO and member of the board of directors.The move is effective July 1. Forney succeeds Kevin Nish, who has served as GeoVera’s...
Jun 19 2020 // A Southern California restaurant owner who was among five injured when an underground transformer exploded during an Oktoberfest celebration last year is suing Southern California Edison.Flames shot into the sky from the...
Jun 19 2020 // An appellate judge on Wednesday stayed a lower court’s order barring Gov. Gavin Newsom from issuing directives that might conflict with state law, freeing him to take additional executive actions during the...
Jun 18 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced the newest members of the California Department of Insurance’s Curriculum Board and the California Insurance Guarantee Association’s Board of...
Jun 17 2020 // Backers of a controversial bill in California, which they say is designed to increase insurance coverage in high-risk wildfire areas by amending Proposition 103, believe it has the right timing and plenty of momentum to go...
Jun 17 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara today issued an order adopting emergency workers’ compensation regulations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.The new regulations go into effect on July 1. The...
Jun 17 2020 // Pacific Gas & Electric is expected to plead guilty to 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter during a court hearing in which the nation’s largest utility will be confronted with its history of neglect and...
Jun 17 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has added Jamie Ausec to the Irvine, Calif. Ausec specializes in employee benefits. She started her career in insurance 16 years ago and has worked at ADP, Alliant, and most recently...
Jun 16 2020 // California workers’ compensation total direct written premium continued to decline in 2019, falling 7.0% to a five-year low of $11.42 billion, as nine out of the state’s 10 largest insurer groups wrote less...
Jun 16 2020 // California has recorded more than 5,000 COVID-19 deaths as cases continue to climb in several parts of the state.The state Department of Public Health reported 148,855 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 5,063 deaths...
Jun 15 2020 // Genstar Capital announced on Monday it has exited its remaining stake in specialty property insurer Palomar Holdings Inc. in La Jolla, Calif.Genstar in 2014 partnered with current CEO Mac Armstrong to form Palomar, a new...
Jun 15 2020 // A California judge has sided with Republican legislators who said Gov. Gavin Newsom overstepped his powers with dozens of emergency orders during the coronavirus crisis that changed everything from how public meetings are...
Jun 12 2020 // Google filed a lawsuit accusing home speaker maker Sonos Inc. of infringing five of its patents, escalating tensions between the partners that have already led to a U.S. International Trade Commission probe.In a complaint...
Jun 12 2020 // Topa Insurance Co. in Calabasas, Calif., has named Olive Chang vice president of reinsurance. Chang has oversight of reinsurance placements for all Topa Insurance Group entities. She is also responsible for strategic...
Jun 11 2020 // Drivers working for ride-hailing services such as Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc will be considered employees under California’s new gig worker law, the state’s leading industry regulator said on...
Jun 10 2020 // United Valley Insurance Services Inc. has added Los Alamitos, Calif.-based Huggins Dreckman Insurance Agency Inc. as a new member. Stan Dreckman and Jeannie Jensen-Dreckman are principal owners of Huggins Dreckman. The...