All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 2 2018 // Starbucks Corp. and other coffee sellers must put a cancer warning on coffee sold in California, a Los Angeles judge has ruled, possibly exposing the companies to millions of dollars in fines.A little-known not-for-profit...
Apr 2 2018 // A Texas court has issued an order of liquidation for Access Insurance Company, an auto insurer that has 42,785 policies in Pennsylvania. This means Pennsylvanians that currently have auto insurance through Access Insurance...
Apr 2 2018 // Stephanie K. JonesTexas insurance regulators placed into receivership and started the process of liquidating a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that the insurance...
Apr 2 2018 // The California Supreme Court will again intervene in the protracted saga of insurance litigation stemming from the bodily injury, property damage, and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act...
Apr 2 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 2 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 29 2018 // Online ads from unlicensed marijuana shops are creating turmoil in California’s emerging legal pot market.State regulators have warned the popular website Weedmaps to take down ads from illegal sellers or face...
Mar 29 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired McGregor & Associates in San Diego, Calif.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. George McGregor and his team will continue to operate from their San Diego location under the...
Mar 28 2018 // Plans to turn the old California ghost town of Nipton into a marijuana paradise are on the back burner for now, although visitors to the area an hour outside Las Vegas are still encouraged to toke up privately.David...
Mar 28 2018 // A woman who owns a business that claims to be California’s largest landlord of marijuana businesses sued the city of San Bernardino to overturn its pot regulation ordinance that could bar her from the...
Mar 28 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc. won’t renew a license to operate self-driving cars in California while the company evaluates how one of its vehicles killed a pedestrian in Arizona last week.The San Francisco-based company...
Mar 28 2018 // A fatal crash and vehicle fire of a Tesla Inc Model X near Mountain View, Calif., last week has prompted a federal field investigation, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said, sparking a big selloff in Tesla...
Mar 26 2018 // The California Department of Industrial Relations on Monday issued a progress report on its anti-fraud efforts, including updates on the suspension of 227 medical providers from treating California’s injured workers...
Mar 26 2018 // Four adults and a girl were injured after a second-story balcony collapsed at an apartment near downtown Los Angeles.The Los Angeles Fire Department says the South Park balcony collapsed, injuring three women, a man and a...
Mar 26 2018 // Florida has been trying to lure self-driving cars to the state for testing on public roads, shaping laws that are much more lax than places like California and New York. The fatal accident last week in Arizona, another...
Mar 25 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones exceeded his statutory authority by considering the investment income of separate State Farm affiliates when he ordered State Farm General Insurance Co. to roll back its...
Mar 23 2018 // A Texas court has issued an order of liquidation for Access Insurance Company, an auto insurer that has 42,785 policies in Pennsylvania. This means Pennsylvanians that currently have auto insurance through Access Insurance...
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...