All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 15 2025 // Southern California Edison (SCE), a subsidiary of utility Edison International, said on Friday it had submitted an initial plan to rebuild the areas within its service territory that were devastated by the Los Angeles...
Apr 15 2025 // Weeks after deadly fires swept through Los Angeles County, the state regulator in charge of overseeing utility companies declined a request that would have required California’s largest utilities to update maps...
Apr 14 2025 // Eric M. Hansen, senior vice president – underwriting at Preferred Employers, has been re-elected as chair of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute board of directors for 2025. Hansen was first elected to...
Apr 11 2025 // California lawmakers have blocked a bill to make oil and gas companies liable for damage to homes from natural disasters caused by climate change, warning it could raise gas prices.The bill would have allowed victims of...
Apr 10 2025 // A new bill introduced in California aims to increase transparency and accountability in California’s insurance market by bolstering consumer privacy protections and establishing a privacy rights framework for...
Apr 9 2025 // Property-catastrophe capacity remained adequate to meet demand during the April 1 renewals for US reinsurance buyers, despite the record losses from California’s January wildfires, according to Aon and Gallagher Re...
Apr 9 2025 // Lawyers for State Farm General, the California Department of Insurance and Consumer Watchdog presented opening arguments in a hearing to determine the fate of State Farm’s request for an emergency homeowners rate...
Apr 9 2025 // The rate of California workers’ compensation medical treatment request denials being overturned was up slightly last year, but they are still a relatively rare occurrence, a new report shows.Denials were overturned...
Apr 7 2025 // World Insurance Associates LLC has acquired Royalty Insurance Services in Van Nuys, California. Royalty has been providing commercial trucking insurance for over 23 years. World Insurance Associates is a national financial...
Apr 7 2025 // A construction company was fined $157,500 by California for multiple violations of workplace safety regulations following a fatal trench collapse.W.A. Rasic Construction was fined by the California Division of Occupational...
Apr 7 2025 // PART ONE OF A TWO-PART SERIESIt was pitch black in the house and the power was off. The Santa Ana winds were howling. As planned, my wife, Jenny, gathered our two dogs and cat and scurried them into her car as I shuttled...
Apr 4 2025 // Gov. Gavin Newsom said he’s seeking exemptions for California-made products from retaliatory tariffs and wants to open talks with global allies over new trade relationships, casting the state as a buffer against the...
Apr 4 2025 // A Los Angeles, California, couple was sentenced after an investigation reportedly found they underreported more than $21 million in employee payroll for their delivery companies.John Nemandoust, 70, was sentenced to 60...
Apr 3 2025 // A plumbing contractor has been ordered to pay $1 million in restitution to the State Compensation Insurance Fund as part of a workers’ comp fraud prosecution.Daniela G. Birdwell, 41, owner of GPS Plumbing, pleaded...
Apr 3 2025 // Vivere Partners, a specialty insurance platform focused on niche lines of insurance, completed a $7.5 million Series A funding round led by General Catalyst, Pathlight Ventures and Greenlight Re. The funding is intended to...
Apr 2 2025 // A bill that aims to enable the California FAIR Plan to seek additional claims paying capacity is making its way through state Legislature.Assembly Bill 226, the FAIR Plan Stabilization Act, passed out of the Assembly 72-0....
Apr 1 2025 // California is emerging from its wettest time of the year with new fire and drought risks.The state is scheduled to measure the snowpack amassed over winter on Tuesday — April 1 is the typical peak point before springtime...
Apr 1 2025 // A California bill requiring insurers to provide a notice to homeowners before conducting an inspection with aerial imaging is set for a committee hearing on Wednesday.Assembly Bill 75 requires insurers to provide a notice...
Mar 31 2025 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved a filing from the California FAIR Plan Association to increase commercial property coverage limits.Related: New Fire Maps Put Nearly 4M Californians in Hazardous...
Mar 27 2025 // The California Department of Managed Health Care issued an all-plan letter designed to provide flexibility for health plans to assist healthcare providers impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires.Related: LA Municipal Utility...