All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 31 2017 // A judge has refused to block a Los Angeles natural gas storage facility from reopening a year and a half after a major blowout spewed methane that drove thousands of families from their homes.Los Angeles Superior Court...
Jul 28 2017 // Responding to top government officials in 12 oil and gas producing states that threatened to sue over the state’s climate initiatives, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said: bring it on.In June, Oklahoma...
Jul 28 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has fired off a letter to the 12 oil state attorneys general and one governor from states like Texas and Oklahoma over threats to sue him if he did not stop his Climate Risk...
Jul 28 2017 // Mercury Insurance put together a list of the 10 most affordable electric vehicles to insure, and Fiat, Kia and Nissan models top the list.Mercury researchers examined the 2017 electric vehicles available at car dealerships...
Jul 28 2017 // Private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners has agreed to acquire all of The Carlyle Group’s stake in EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, giving Oak Hill a controlling equity position in EPIC.Oak Hill’s...
Jul 27 2017 // Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green is being sued by a couple who claim he and his entourage assaulted them last year.Jermaine Edmondson and Bianca Williams filed the lawsuit seeking unspecified monetary damages in...
Jul 26 2017 // Chevron Corp. and state regulators have reached a settlement related to a 2012 fire at its Richmond refinery that will require the company to spend about $20 million on safety improvements, officials announced this...
Jul 25 2017 // TLB Insurance Services has named Scott Scherer an employee benefits agent in the agency’s Walnut Creek, Calif. office. Scherer was previously president and owner of Hall of Fame Benefits. He was vice president of...
Jul 25 2017 // A fire that has burned 63 homes and dozens of other structures is now 65 percent contained, authorities said.The fire near California’s Yosemite National Park has burned 78,900 acres, and is still threatening 1,500...
Jul 24 2017 // Firefighters are bracing for the possibility of dry lightning as they battle a stubborn blaze that has scorched nearly 120 square miles near California’s Yosemite National Park.The wildfire burning in the Sierra...
Jul 24 2017 // Tom Fallon, 63, of Long Beach, Calif., is being arraigned today in Superior Court in Long Beach on multiple felony charges including theft by embezzlement and money laundering.Fallon’s daughter, Christina Fallon, 28,...
Jul 24 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, who was a passenger on the Air Canada flight 759 that nearly landed on a taxiway at San Francisco International Airport in mid-July, has sent a letter to the airline and three...
Jul 24 2017 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has launched the 2018 Experience Modification Estimator for insurers, agents and brokers to help policyholders understand how their payroll and claim experience will...
Jul 24 2017 // A progress report from the California Department of Industrial Relations on the department’s independent medical review program shows that 13,000 decisions run through the medical dispute resolution process each...
Jul 24 2017 // Californians would face $1.9 billion in higher insurance costs if Congress passes a border adjustment tax as part of federal tax reform, according to a study issued in mid-July by the R Street Institute and the Pacific...
Jul 24 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation is reporting that 441,070 supplemental lien declaration forms were filed. This amount represents half of the 882,648 liens filed in California’s workers’...
Jul 24 2017 // The tension between Washington, D.C., and Sacramento seems to have created extra work for some lobbyists.“It’s absolutely palpable,” Paul Yoder, managing director for the California Coalition on...
Jul 24 2017 // A new study has found that state reforms to control the costs of prescription drugs by targeting reimbursements for physicians dispensing them are having some effect but that physician-dispensing still accounts for a large...
Jul 21 2017 // A California broker is promising to bring a “first-of-its-kind financial resource” that pays homeowners after an earthquake for a low monthly premium whether there’s damage to the home or not.A Berkeley,...
Jul 21 2017 // Friday marks the 65th anniversary of the 1952 magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck Kern County, Calif., considered the largest quake to strike Southern California since the 1870s.While the epicenter was on the White Wolf...