All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 15 2018 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California in early October issued a summary of legislation signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown.The Legislature recessed for the year on Aug. 31, and Brown had...
Oct 12 2018 // An attorney says victims molested by a Southern California police officer while participating in the department’s Police Explorer program have reached a $4 million settlement in a civil lawsuit. Anthony DeMarco says...
Oct 12 2018 // Walmart Inc. has agreed to pay $65 million to nearly 100,000 current and former cashiers in California who accused the retailer of violating state law by refusing to provide them with seating while they worked.Walmart...
Oct 11 2018 // One year after a devastating series of wildfires ripped through Northern California wine country, destroying thousands of homes, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ first experience cleaning up after a wildfire has...
Oct 10 2018 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Charity First Insurance Services Inc. has named Margarita Paz-Cazares a new business underwriter. Paz-Cazares has more than 25 years of experience as a multiline commercial underwriter. She was...
Oct 9 2018 // PG&E Corp.-owned equipment caused the Cascade fire in Northern California last year, state investigators have determined.Sagging power lines were the ignition source of the blaze, the California Department of Forestry...
Oct 9 2018 // Registration opens today for the 2019 Earthquake Brace + Bolt program, which offers eligible homeowners grants of up to $3,000 for seismic retrofits to strengthen their older houses and make them more resistant to...
Oct 9 2018 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Daniel J. Guth a vice president in Orange County, Calif. Guth will provide workers’ compensation, risk management, and property/casualty solutions to a diverse portfolio of...
Oct 8 2018 // Workers’ compensation claim frequency reported by California’s private self-insured employers rose last year, the first increase in a decade, according to the California Workers’ Compensation...
Oct 8 2018 // The parents of a teenager who drowned during a high school swim class have filed a claim with his Northern California school district.The claim, generally a precursor to a lawsuit, alleges that a physical education teacher...
Oct 8 2018 // California is poised to set an annual record it never wanted to break: the amount of earth scorched by wildfires.Blazes have already ripped through enough acres to blacken the entire state of Delaware, and what’s...
Oct 4 2018 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Thursday issued a summary of legislation signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown.The Legislature recessed for the year on Aug. 31, and Brown had until...
Oct 4 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones wants insurers to assist wildfire survivors by voluntarily easing detailed personal property home inventory requirements and to follow the lead of other insurers providing at...
Oct 4 2018 // Santa Maria, Calif.-based Murray and Murray Insurance has rebranded to better reflect its affiliation with the Leavitt Group. The agency will now do business as Leavitt Coastal Valley. Dan Lillard remains the managing...
Oct 4 2018 // Remnants of a tropical storm drenched parts of the desert Southwest this week, trapping some drivers on swamped streets of Phoenix, Ariz. as authorities prepared for possible flash flooding in the state, central Utah and...
Oct 4 2018 // A man who says he was sexually abused decades ago by his parish priest said he is suing all Catholic bishops in California and the Archdiocese of Chicago, seeking to compel church officials to release records on clergy...
Oct 4 2018 // San Francisco supervisors have approved a $14.5 million settlement for a woman who was paralyzed from the waist down when she was struck by a heavy tree limb at a park two years ago.The San Francisco Chronicle reported the...
Oct 3 2018 // U.S. Congress is taking the first steps toward setting national rules governing how companies use consumers data – although one of its goals might be to prevent states from enacting stronger privacy protections of...
Oct 2 2018 // Lloyd’s is set to get into Canada’s cannabis market when recreational marijuana becomes legal there on Oct. 17, according to Hank Watkins, president of Lloyd’s America Inc.Watkins was speaking today at...
Oct 2 2018 // A firm that wants to make a name for itself as the first parametric insurtech in the U.S. for earthquakes has officially launched in California, over a year after its anticipated original launch date.Jumpstart Insurance...