All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 7 2019 // Regulators have accused one of California’s largest utilities of falsifying safety documents for natural gas pipelines for years following its criminal conviction and multimillion-dollar fine for a pipeline explosion...
Jan 7 2019 // The California Department of Industrial Relations issued a report last month showing that 376 Californians died on the job in 2017, the same as in 2016.California’s workplace fatality rate remains stable with slight...
Jan 7 2019 // The California wildfires of 2018 were devastating, burning hundreds of thousands of acres, costing numerous lives and destroying thousands of properties.The California Department of Insurance in early December put the...
Jan 7 2019 // AM Best has placed under review with negative implications the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a-” of California Capital Insurance Co. and its...
Jan 7 2019 // A higher percentage of California marijuana products are passing strict safety tests, but the sudden closing of a lab that state authorities found wasn’t correctly checking for pesticides has raised new questions...
Jan 7 2019 // Paramount Exclusive Insurance Services Inc. | Encino, CaliforniaJacob Barzivand started working as an insurance producer right after college at the age of 20. Now, at just 26, he’s built a sizable book of business in...
Jan 7 2019 // Lawmakers Debated More Than 100 Fraud-Related Bills and Passed 33 into LawThe introduction of new bills slows down during years when legislators tend to be more concerned with reelection. That’s why 2018 was such a...
Jan 4 2019 // The California Supreme Court let stand an appeals court decision upholding California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ Fair Claims Settlement Practices Regulations, paving the way for millions of dollars in...
Jan 4 2019 // Dentists Benefits Insurance Co. and Northwest Dentists Insurance Co., acquired by The Dentists Insurance Co. in 2017, have merged into parent company TDIC. The merger was effective Jan. 1 after final regulatory approval....
Jan 4 2019 // The city and county of Napa in Northern California will pay $5 million to relatives of a 3-year-old girl who was tortured and killed by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend.The San Francisco Chronicle says a...
Jan 3 2019 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Thursday issued a report today detailing the progress of the California Organized Investment Network during his administration.COIN is a program within the California...
Jan 3 2019 // The city of Long Beach, Calif. is soliciting help from its citizens to come up with a plan to deal with climate change.The coastal city of roughly half-a-million, which was an early adopter of the ban on plastic bags and...
Jan 2 2019 // Wells Fargo has agreed to pay a $10 million penalty as part of a settlement agreement with the California Department of Insurance.The settlement with the CDI, announced on Wednesday, resolves the department’s...
Jan 2 2019 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.The last few months of 2018 were record-setting and heartbreaking for the survivors of wildfires in California. The Camp Fire in Butte County quickly became the most...
Jan 2 2019 // A California utility’s role in igniting wildfires last year could allow a judge to find that it violated terms of its criminal sentence in a 2010 gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people, federal prosecutors...
Dec 31 2018 // Warren G. Bender Co. has named Stephen Makis an account executive in its personal lines department. He has more than 16 years of experience in providing personal insurance consultation throughout California and other...
Dec 31 2018 // Ascot has named Chris Johnson and Jocelyne Factor as underwriters in the U.S. marine team.Both will be based in the new San Francisco office, expanding Ascot’s geographic footprint to the West Coast. Johnson, senior...
Dec 31 2018 // In a conference room 13 miles from Paradise, California, Doug Boxer explains to survivors of the state’s worst wildfire why they should choose his law firm to sue PG&E Corp.He walks a fine line between listening...
Dec 31 2018 // Another year down, and too many fascinating news headlines to count.Hawaii’s lava, the race for California insurance commissioner, and a $23 million ruling in a lawsuit against Geico were among the most popular...
Dec 31 2018 // A lawsuit targeting California coffee houses for not including warning labels on their products tops the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform’s (ILR) list of the Top 10 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2018. This...