All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 25 2025 // As Los Angeles-area residents recover from one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history, California’s insurer of last resort is careening toward another hot and dry summer with its coffers already strained....
Mar 25 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...
Mar 24 2025 // A Southern California restaurant has been fined more than $1.1 million over wage theft and sick leave violations. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office took the action against Food Source LLC, a Buena Park...
Mar 24 2025 // The Justice Department opened an investigation into the University of California to determine if the UC system has allowed an Antisemitic hostile work environment to exist on its campuses.The investigation, being conducted...
Mar 24 2025 // A construction company was fined more than $430,000 for California labor violations that resulted in unpaid wages, overtime and other violations.The stateis Labor Commissioneris Office secured the settlement to return...
Mar 20 2025 // The California Department of Industrial Relations made available $25 million in funding for the California Workplace Outreach Project to support 89 community-based organizations across the state.This initiative is intended...
Mar 19 2025 // The California Insurance Wholesalers Association launched two new initiatives: CIWA Women and an Insurtech Committee.CIWA Women is designed to promote women’s interests, development and empowerment in the...
Mar 18 2025 // Tesla Inc. was granted approval in California to begin carrying passengers in its vehicles as Elon Musk’s company takes steps toward offering ride-hailing services.The California Public Utilities Commission said in...
Mar 18 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.After years of watching insurance carriers exit the California property and casualty market, the state may see another exodus in the wake of the January 2025 wildfires...
Mar 17 2025 // A delivery driver has won $50 million in a lawsuit after being seriously burned when a Starbucks drink spilled in his lap at a California drive-through, court records show.A Los Angeles County jury found Friday for Michael...
Mar 17 2025 // Ricardo Lara California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara reappointed members Mitch Steiger and C. Bryan Little to the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau Governing Committee and reappointed...
Mar 14 2025 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara provisionally approved State Farm’s request for a 22% interim homeowners insurance rate hike, the California Department of Insurance announced on Friday.The approval...
Mar 13 2025 // Ahead of a decision from California’s insurance commissioner on a State Farm General request for emergency rate increases, company executives and representatives of a consumer group pled their opposing cases in...
Mar 13 2025 // A San Jose, California, body shop owner was charged with insurance fraud following an undercover sting operation that reportedly revealed he jacked an insurance damage estimate on a bait car.The operation, led by...
Mar 12 2025 // For many years, the homeowners insurance market operated as a relatively stable and predictable sector in California. Changes were incremental, and the market largely catered to established patterns of risk and...
Mar 11 2025 // “Fire took everything, please help.”The headline was one of hundreds like it on GoFundMe campaigns that launched even as the embers of the fires in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena were still smoldering. They...
Mar 11 2025 // The Washington Unified School District in Fresno, Calif. settled a federal charge of firing a 65-year-old teacher. The age discrimination charge was filed in April 2022 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Mar 10 2025 // Eight people were injured over the weekened when a driver plowed a vehicle into a CarMax location in the Los Angeles area.Two people were critically hurt at the dealership in Inglewood, while the other six had minor...
Mar 10 2025 // Workers’ compensation insurers and California employers alike have faced new responsibilities for employee safety from July 1, 2024, when legislation aimed at reducing workplace violence took effect. Now that the law...
Mar 7 2025 // More insurers are paying contents coverage to California wildfire victims without requiring a detailed inventory, according to the California Department of Insurance.The CDI reported on responses from carriers following a...