All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 2 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced today issued an order that every insurer licensed to write workers’ compensation in the state must report their federal income tax savings annually through a...
Jul 2 2018 // Lawyers that a tentative plea deal has been reached for two defendants in connection with a Northern California warehouse fire that killed three dozen partygoers at an unlicensed concert in 2016.Attorneys for Derick Almena...
Jul 2 2018 // California will soon have what experts call the nation’s most far-reaching law to give consumers more control over their personal data under a bill the governor has signed.The law will compel companies to tell...
Jul 2 2018 // Those interested in risk management are starting to take climate change a bit more seriously.The evidence is anecdotal, but for that proof one can just ask Phil Renaud, executive director for the Risk Institute at Ohio...
Jul 2 2018 // California public self-insured workers’ compensation claims from fiscal year 2016-2017 rose less than 0.4 percent compared to the corresponding data from the prior year despite a 2.9 percent increase in covered...
Jul 2 2018 // One wouldn’t normally associate blockchain with workers’ compensation, two completely different industries that seem worlds apart.But as it turns out, the technology is of value to at least one very important...
Jun 29 2018 // Brightway Insurance has opened an office in Redwood City, Calif.The firm this week also opened its first office in Kansas, as well as in Texas. Manny Aguilar is opening Brightway, The Aguilar Agency in Redwood City.Other...
Jun 29 2018 // A boy who lost his leg and part of his pelvis after a tree fell on his tent during a camping trip at a public park will receive $47.5 million from a California municipality and utility in a lawsuit settlement, an attorney...
Jun 28 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones is irked that the insurance industry has worked to alter legislation he supports that he says is aimed at strengthening consumer protections for wildfire survivors.Senate Bill...
Jun 28 2018 // A 58-year-old Southern California woman has been awarded $31 million in an age discrimination case against her former employer. Codie Rael of Ontario sued Washington-based Danaher Corp. and two subsidiaries, claiming that...
Jun 28 2018 // Bargain basement bud is on the menu in California, but you need to act fast to cash in on the cheap weed.Regulations being phased in six months after the state broadly legalized marijuana require that pot sold after...
Jun 28 2018 // XL Catlin and new insurtech-focused program administrator Bamboo Insurance have entered into an underwriting agreement to provide property insurance in California. Bamboo Insurance is a California-based program...
Jun 27 2018 // The families of two pilots who died in a 2016 helicopter crash in western Arizona have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the California-based manufacturer of the aircraft.The suit filed last Friday in Los Angeles...
Jun 27 2018 // A Tesla Inc. Model S involved in a May 8 fatal high-speed crash in Florida reignited twice after firefighters extinguished a fire in the electric vehicle, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a...
Jun 26 2018 // The 2019 minimum and maximum temporary total disability rates will increase on Jan. 1, 2019, the California Division of Workers’ Compensation announced on Tuesday.The minimum TTD rate will increase from $182.29 to...
Jun 26 2018 // Thousands fled their homes as major wildfires encroached on a charred area of Northern California still recovering from severe blazes in recent years, sparking concern the state may be in for another destructive series of...
Jun 26 2018 // BP Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. escaped blame for the public costs of global warming when a U.S. judge ruled that lawsuits by cities against oil companies aren’t the answer to climate change.“The...
Jun 25 2018 // It’s time for reciprocity across states in insurance adjuster licensing, according to a new report.The study by the Pacific Research Institute into state licensing requirements,“Breaking Down Barriers,”...
Jun 22 2018 // One wouldn’t normally associate blockchain with workers’ compensation, two completely different industries that seem worlds apart.But as it turns out, the technology is of value to at least one very important...
Jun 22 2018 // Officials in Oakland, Calif. have agreed to pay $12 million to a motorcyclist who lost a leg and was badly hurt when struck by a police vehicle that allegedly ran a red light.The East Bay Times reported that the proposed...