All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 5 2019 // The California Fire Safe Council on Tuesday announced a list of new officers of the board of directors.Jerry Davies has been elected to a fifth term as chairman of the CFSC board. Davies is a founding member of CFSC and a...
Feb 5 2019 // Sacramento, Calif.-based Warren G. Bender Co. has rebranded to become Bender Insurance Solutions. “We’re thrilled to honor our strong 80-year-old legacy by breathing new life and energy into it,” Jillian...
Feb 5 2019 // Five people died and two others were injured after a small plane apparently came apart, raining debris across a Southern California neighborhood and igniting a house fire before landing in a backyard, authorities said.The...
Feb 5 2019 // Aetna will pay $935,000 after one of its vendors sent letters to California patients that revealed via a window on the envelopes that the recipients were taking HIV-related medications.California Attorney General Xavier...
Feb 4 2019 // Big corporations forced into bankruptcy by liability lawsuits often take the offending product off the market and try to move on. That’s what happened with the Dalkon Shield birth control device, asbestos and...
Feb 4 2019 // Establishing a California Wildfire Commission is just one idea an expert is tossing out to help the state deal with worsening fire seasons.James Woods was formerly co-leader of Mayer Brown’s Global Insurance Industry...
Feb 1 2019 // Utility owner PG&E Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday in anticipation of liabilities from California wildfires, including a catastrophic 2018 blaze that killed 86 people.PG&E, which provides...
Jan 31 2019 // California wildland managers said this week that they want to speed up logging and prescribed burns designed to slow wildfires that have devastated communities in recent years.After the deadliest and most destructive...
Jan 31 2019 // A lawsuit filed on behalf of bail customers claims surety companies and agents in California conspire to keep premiums high.The Los Angeles Times reported public-interest groups filed the suit this week in Alameda County...
Jan 31 2019 // A federal judge who has emerged as a vocal critic of PG&E Corp.’s safety record, said the California utility giant has a “clear-cut pattern” of starting wildfires and needs “strong...
Jan 30 2019 // The family of a 22-year-old unarmed black man killed by police last year have filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking more than $20 million from the city of Sacramento and the two officers who opened fire.The federal...
Jan 30 2019 // On an unusually warm day in northern California, hot and dry winds whipped through the Sierra Nevada foothills northeast of San Francisco.It was Thursday, Nov. 8, and a “red-flag warning” from the National...
Jan 30 2019 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Emily Quinlan vice president. Quinlan is based in San Francisco, and will provide risk management and insurance solutions to the firm’ West Coast client base. She was...
Jan 30 2019 // Leticia Vallejo, a housekeeper at a Marriott hotel in Irvine, California, said that back in the summer of 2017, a drunk male guest groped her while she was cleaning the hotel lobby bathroom. As he did so, he offered her...
Jan 29 2019 // Establishing a California Wildfire Commission is just one idea an expert is tossing out to help the state deal with worsening fire seasons.James Woods was formerly co-leader of Mayer Brown’s Global Insurance Industry...
Jan 29 2019 // Power provider PG&E Corp. filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, succumbing to liabilities stemming from wildfires in Northern California in 2017 and 2018.The owner of the biggest U.S. power...
Jan 29 2019 // Tinder agreed to settle an age-discrimination lawsuit by users in California older than 28 who claimed they had to pay more for the dating app’s premium features than younger users. The settlement covers about...
Jan 29 2019 // Over the past few years, cities across America have experienced sudden downpours of shared electric scooters, piling up almost overnight on curbs, sidewalks and front-yards from Atlanta to Los Angeles.The phenomenon has...
Jan 28 2019 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday announced that more than $11.4 billion in insured losses have been reported from the November 2018 fires.That is a 25 percent increase, or more than $2.3 billion,...
Jan 28 2019 // California fire investigators last week concluded that a major 2017 wildfire was caused by privately owned electrical equipment, prompting the state’s new governor to estimate that PG&E Corp’s potential...