All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 15 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara today issued a bulletin extending his previous order requiring insurance companies to return partial insurance premiums to consumers and businesses amid the ongoing COVID-19...
May 15 2020 // Bill Mudge has been put in a unique position during the pandemic.He’s got a sizeable workforce he’s had to reconfigure and manage much differently, and he heads the bureau that regulators, employers and...
May 15 2020 // San Francisco Bay Area-based music venue Ivy Room has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of California-based music venues against a major insurance provider, saying the venues were wrongfully denied coverage for losses...
May 13 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Wednesday announced the newest members of the Insurance Diversity Task Force, which makes recommendations to the commissioner on ways to increase diversity within the...
May 13 2020 // More than two dozen California counties have asked for permission to loosen their stay-at-home orders beyond what the state allows, Gov. Gavin Newsom said, promising a speedy review of their requests as jobs continue...
May 12 2020 // An executive order by California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week is the most aggressive yet among the directives issued by 13 states that require workers’ compensation insurers to pay at least some COVID-19...
May 12 2020 // San Francisco-based children’s clothing boutique Mudpie Inc. has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of California-based retail stores against an insurance provider, saying the small businesses were wrongfully...
May 12 2020 // A moderate earthquake shook a remote desert area east of San Diego Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of damages or injuries, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. The magnitude 4.5 quake struck at 3:07 p.m. and...
May 12 2020 // A beach bordering two Southern California counties reopened Monday with some restrictions as parts of the state slowly reopened public spaces and businesses.Seal Beach in northern Orange County allowed running, walking and...
May 11 2020 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Venbrook Group LLC has named Joseph Orlando chief financial officer. Orlando will assume operational leadership for all of the company’s financial functions including accounting, corporate...
May 11 2020 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom is warning three counties that they could lose disaster funding if they continue to defy his stay-at-home order. Officials in Yuba, Sutter and Modoc counties have all allowed businesses to...
May 10 2020 // Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s nursing homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with a sweeping lobbying effort to get states to grant them emergency protection...
May 8 2020 // California restaurants have drafted a plan to allow the industry to reopen for sit-down dining with an array of safeguards while avoiding possible requirements that customers have their temperature taken and the number of...
May 8 2020 // Tokio Marine HCC’s cyber and professional lines named Desiree Khoury vice president of marketing and business development. Khoury is based in Encino, Calif. and reports to David Lloyd, the group’s chief...
May 7 2020 // A California appeals court on Tuesday overturned most of a 2017 jury verdict awarding Quincy Jones $9.4 million in royalties and fees from the Michael Jackson estate over the use of Jones-produced Jackson hits in the...
May 7 2020 // A former Northern California business executive and his companies will pay $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit by the state accusing him of sexually harassing a female employee, according to a newspaper report.California...
May 6 2020 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced that workers who contract COVID-19 while on the job may be eligible to receive workers’ compensation.The governor signed an executive order that creates a time-limited...
May 6 2020 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group has named Michael Day president and CEO on a permanent basis. Day has been leading Topa Insurance Group on an interim basis since stepping in for the departing John Donahue, who...
May 6 2020 // California sued two multinational gasoline trading companies Monday, alleging they ran a scheme that jacked up prices at the pump from 2015 to late 2016.Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the companies took...
May 5 2020 // While the potential cost of relaxing a tenet of the workers’ compensation system to deal with extraordinary circumstances of COVID-19 could top $50 billion, it’s more likely to be one-fifth of that, an analyst...