All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 18 2019 // For four days in February, Ben Shukman showed up to his office at Phantom Auto in Mountain View, California, sat down in front of a bank of computer screens with a steering wheel in a darkened room, and began driving. As...
Apr 17 2019 // PCF Insurance Services has completed the acquisition of Grosslight Insurance Inc., headquartered in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Grosslight Insurance, with offices...
Apr 17 2019 // California regulators expressed skepticism that Pacific Gas & Electric Corp.’s new leaders have enough professional experience to instill the deep corporate culture of safety they say the company has lacked.The...
Apr 16 2019 // A Northern California health care provider has agreed to pay $30 million to settle allegations that it overcharged the federal government for Medicare patient reimbursements.Sutter Health didn’t acknowledge any...
Apr 16 2019 // A federal commission decision that an employer had a duty to protect a social services worker who was stabbed to death by a client, even though the company did not violate any specific safety standard, reinvigorated...
Apr 15 2019 // The California Earthquake Authority’s governing board has voted to sponsor and support the Resilient Homes Initiative, a bill aimed at helping Californians prepare for earthquakes by restructuring the CEA to...
Apr 15 2019 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund reported an increase of net income and written premium in its just-released annual report for 2018.Financial highlights of the 2018 annual report include: Net income of...
Apr 15 2019 // California regulators have proposed regulations that would allow vehicle manufacturers to test or deploy small self-driving delivery trucks on public roads, the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said in a...
Apr 15 2019 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency wrongly released to a contractor the personal information of 2.3 million survivors of devastating 2017 hurricanes and wildfires, potentially exposing the victims to identity fraud...
Apr 14 2019 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom gave legislators just three months to address a multibillion-dollar wildfire liability problem that has forced the state’s largest power company, PG&E Corp., into bankruptcy and...
Apr 12 2019 // Own a home? No doubt you’ve insured it. Very sensible of you. But if that home were, say, burned to the ground, then your insurance company probably wouldn’t cover the cost of rebuilding it.Don’t feel too...
Apr 11 2019 // California written premium for 2018 was 4 percent below 2017 and 6 percent below 2016 as recent declining premium rates have more than offset payroll growth, according to a report from the Workers’ Compensation...
Apr 11 2019 // California’s State Fund will now provide injured workers round-the-clock access physicians from a desktop computer, tablet or mobile phone.State Fund on Thursday announced its partnership with Kura MD, a provider of...
Apr 10 2019 // California’s Senate Insurance Committee on Wednesday passed legislation aimed at promoting diversity in the state’s insurance industry.Senate Bill 534, introduced by Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, would...
Apr 10 2019 // San Diego, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates has named Destiny Snelling an account manager within its commercial department. Snelling serves as the primary contact at the agency for her assigned clients, responsible...
Apr 10 2019 // Former California licensed insurance producer Jon Cunningham, 57, has been charged with a dozen felony counts of fraud, including first degree burglary, grand theft, theft from an elder and filing false tax returns after...
Apr 9 2019 // A progress report from the California Division of Workers’ Compensation on the state’s Independent Bill Review program shows seven of 10 decided cases resulted in additional payment for the provider.IBR is a...
Apr 9 2019 // A report from carrier State Farm shows it paid $123 million dollars for 3,280 dog bite and injury claims, last year, a decrease of 9 percent compared with the number of dog bite claims in 2017 and a decrease of 7 percent...
Apr 8 2019 // Johnson & Johnson won the latest trial over claims its iconic baby powder can cause cancer, as a jury in Long Beach, California, rejected a lawsuit brought by a 65-year-old retired teacher who claimed the product was...
Apr 7 2019 // An investigation has determined that a July 2017 wildfire that destroyed more than 40 homes in Northern California was sparked by a defective electrical panel at a Butte County home. The state Department of Forestry and...