All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 10 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s $10 million settlement with women engineers who complained they were underpaid compared with men would also rid the ride-hailing giant of liability for potentially hundreds of sexual...
Apr 9 2018 // Hailing worker’s compensation reform in California as a “big hit,” the two top people at the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau explained why the WCIRB governing committee on Monday...
Apr 9 2018 // Keating Inc. has named Lee Glaser as a partner in its property programs. Glaser will be based out of San Diego, Calif. Glaser has more than 10 years of industry experience specializing in excess and surplus property...
Apr 9 2018 // A school district outside San Diego, Calif. has agreed to pay a former student and his family $7.1 million after he received a brain injury while playing football.The San Diego Union-Tribune reports the Grossmont Union...
Apr 9 2018 // California’s public utility regulator signaled it would allow self-driving car companies to transport passengers without a backup driver in the vehicle, a step forward for autonomous car developers just as the...
Apr 6 2018 // TeenSafe has hired Aaron Moore as the company’s head of channel sales. Moore will work with insurance companies to develop programs to parents of help teens eliminate distracted driving. He will be reaching out to...
Apr 6 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc. is trying to fend off a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was seriously injured after her driver ordered her out of the car in the middle of a California freeway.The ridesharing company is asking a...
Apr 5 2018 // California’s annual insurance premium volume has increased to $332 billion, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced on Thursday. That makes California is the 4th largest insurance market in the world, and the...
Apr 5 2018 // A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck off the coast of Southern California at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.The quake struck roughly 17 miles off the Santa Cruz Islands and was measured at 6.1...
Apr 5 2018 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s governing committee has voted to authorize the WCIRB to submit a lower mid-year pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance...
Apr 4 2018 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Dumortier Risk Management Inc., a Los Angeles, Calif.-based insurance brokerage firm that specializes in hospitality risk management.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Chris...
Apr 4 2018 // The woman identified by police as the attacker who wounded three people at YouTube’s headquarters in California was a vegan blogger who accused the video-sharing service of discriminating against her, according to...
Apr 4 2018 // Chubb Limited released preliminary net loss estimates for the first quarter of 2018 attributable to natural catastrophes, including the California mudslides, of $380 million pre-tax, or $305 million after tax.Losses from...
Apr 4 2018 // Insurance regulators in the Southeast are notifying policyholders in their states of a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that is to be liquidated after being placed in...
Apr 3 2018 // Pasadena, Calif.-based Bolton & Co. is expanding its education practice group with the promotion of Nicholle Trugman to associate vice president. Trugman has more than 10 years of employee benefits consulting...
Apr 3 2018 // A large Southern California hospitality company is being sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly violating federal law by denying a reasonable accommodation to an employee with asthma.The...
Apr 3 2018 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group has named Denise Pavlov chief underwriting officer.Pavlov will report to President and CEO John Donahue, and oversee Topa’s underwriting, products, program development,...
Apr 3 2018 // Coffee sellers will have to post ominous warnings in California because each cup contains a chemical linked to cancer, a judge ruled.The culprit is a byproduct of the bean roasting process that is a known carcinogen and...
Apr 3 2018 // Authorities say data recovered from the wreckage of the SUV carrying a large family from Washington state shows the deadly crash may have been intentional.The California Highway Patrol says the SUV carrying the family...
Apr 3 2018 // Insurers have received more than 2,000 insurance claims totaling more than $421 million in losses from the deadly Montecito, Calif. mudslide that destroyed or damaged more than 400 homes and businesses and killed 21...