All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 23 2018 // California courts are preparing for an influx of lawsuits tied to last year’s historically destructive wildfires and mudslides, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye told lawmakers this week in her annual “state of...
Mar 23 2018 // A Facebook Inc. user sued the social network and a data research firm that played a role in the election of President Donald Trump alleging that her privacy was violated when information on some 50 million users was...
Mar 22 2018 // A Northern California jury has awarded $2.3 million to a former Major League Baseball pitcher injured after confronting a man high on LSD trying to break into his home.Greg Reynold’s attorney, Niall McCarthy, says a...
Mar 20 2018 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Joel DeVilbiss the San Francisco, Calif. property/casualty practice leader. DeVilbiss is charged with driving the direction and development of Woodruff-Sawyer’s P/C practice in...
Mar 20 2018 // As a teenager working for his dad’s construction business, Noah Ready-Campbell dreamed that robots could take over the dirty, tedious parts of his job, such as digging and leveling soil for building projects.Now the...
Mar 20 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc. should be classified as the same type of transportation as limousines and tour buses, a California regulator said on Monday in a proposal that could change how the ride-hailing company is regulated...
Mar 20 2018 // The technology behind autonomous vehicles has originated from coders in Silicon Valley, engineers in Detroit and academic researchers in Pittsburgh. Much of it eventually lands on the streets of Arizona, a state...
Mar 19 2018 // A federal court jury has awarded $33.5 million in damages to the parents of a man who was fatally shot by a Southern California sheriff’s deputy in November 2015.The jury found that the San Bernardino County deputy...
Mar 19 2018 // A couple has reached a $2.5 million settlement with a Northern California city and its police department after investigators dismissed her bizarre kidnapping as a hoax. Police in the city of Vallejo initially discounted a...
Mar 19 2018 // Rose Barrett of the Berkshire Hathaway Group was elected chair of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute board of directors for 2018.Barrett was first elected to the CWCI board as a representative of AIG in...
Mar 19 2018 // Insurance companies writing in California were sent a notice by the California Department of Insurance reminding them that under Proposition 103 their rates must not be excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory.The...
Mar 19 2018 // Texas insurance regulators placed into receivership and started the process of liquidating a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that the insurance department says is...
Mar 16 2018 // The smoke was thick and business brisk at the Barbary Coast Dispensary’s marijuana smoking lounge, a darkened room that resembles a steakhouse or upscale sports tavern with its red leather seats, deep booths with...
Mar 16 2018 // Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services Inc. has named Luis Milla chief strategy officer to lead the firm’s technical unit. Milla joins Burnham Benefits with more than 23 years of experience in the...
Mar 16 2018 // United Valley Insurance Services Inc. has named Monika Aguirre member relationship manager. Aguirre’s responsibilities will be handling member relationships in Northern and Central California. She will also take the...
Mar 15 2018 // Police say a teacher in California accidentally fired his gun in a classroom, injuring three students.It happened Tuesday at Seaside High School as Dennis Alexander was teaching a gun safety lesson for his administration...
Mar 15 2018 // State lawmakers studying improvements to California’s healthcare system are rejecting a plan popular with Democratic activists to give everyone in the state government-funded health care.A panel created by Assembly...
Mar 14 2018 // Efforts to curb the use of opioids in California’s workers’ compensation system appear to be paying off.New research from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute on prescription drugs used to treat...
Mar 14 2018 // California has adopted a new workplace safety and health regulation designed to reduce work-related injuries to housekeepers in the hotel and hospitality industry.This is the first ergonomic standard in the nation written...
Mar 14 2018 // New data on the Independent Medical Review process used to resolve California workers’ compensation medical disputes show that IMR volume dipped for the first time ever in 2017, but the outcomes were unchanged as IMR...