All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 29 2016 // California vs. Trump, so to speak, is shaping up to be a heavyweight match.On one side is the world’s sixth (or so) largest economy – home to Disneyland, Hollywood and Big Sur. On the other is the reality show...
Dec 29 2016 // The California Department of Industrial Relations has released its 2016 Legislative Digest, which summarizes new laws that impact workers and employers.Most of the chaptered bills are slated to take effect on Jan. 1, 2017....
Dec 29 2016 // Crystal & Co. has named Scott Weiss a managing director in its commercial property/casualty department and a team leader for Northern California.Weiss’ responsibilities include the development, administration and...
Dec 29 2016 // USI has named Jeff Lang practice leader for its Southern California commercial insurance division. Lang has more than 20 years of experience in property/casualty brokerage and five years as an insurance company and TPA...
Dec 29 2016 // Greenberg Traurig LLP has added Bill Gausewitz as a shareholder to its government law and policy and insurance regulatory and transactions practices in the firm’s Sacramento, Calif. office.Gausewitz focuses his...
Dec 28 2016 // A swarm of earthquakes in Nevada produced shaking in wide parts of Northern and Central California early this morning, including in Sacramento and Fresno.The first shock, a magnitude 5.7, occurred shortly after midnight...
Dec 27 2016 // The party is over at Purple 33.About a week after 36 people died in a fire at an underground music party in Oakland, inspectors acting on a complaint discovered a makeshift nightclub and unpermitted living quarters...
Dec 27 2016 // The central California city of Clovis has won a $22 million civil case against Shell Oil over the cleanup of a toxic chemical found in drinking-water wells, officials said.The Fresno Bee reported that the chemical...
Dec 27 2016 // Oceanside firefighters say a river of mud that flowed down a slope, burst through an apartment complex wall in the California town and poured into downstairs units displaced four families early Christmas morning.The...
Dec 27 2016 // Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is happy about the arrival of a fleet of Uber self-driving cars delivered via a self-driving truck that transported them from California.Ducey’s office says the governor welcomed the truck...
Dec 27 2016 // The parents of a 20-year-old college student who died in the arms of her boyfriend in Oakland’s deadly warehouse fire filed the first lawsuit Friday in the disaster, blaming the building’s owner, chief tenant...
Dec 22 2016 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Dec 22 2016 // A report gives California’s insurance regulatory environment low marks for auto body repair rules, the insurance commissioner’s call for insurers to divest from coal, its prior approval law and being the...
Dec 22 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc has removed its self-driving cars from San Francisco streets after California regulators cracked down on the week-old program because the company had not obtained a permit to test the vehicles.The...
Dec 22 2016 // A Google Inc. product manager has sued the company, accusing it of unlawfully prohibiting employees from sharing concerns with coworkers, shareholders or the press, and maintaining a “spying program” to prevent...
Dec 21 2016 // USI has named Jeff Lang practice leader for the Southern California commercial insurance division.Lang is based in USI’s Woodland Hills regional office. He will focus on growth strategies, client service and...
Dec 21 2016 // Attorney General Kamala Harris and the California Coastal Commission has filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s recent finding that fracking off the state’s coast has no significant environmental...
Dec 21 2016 // Volkswagen AG has agreed to a $1 billion settlement to fix or buy back another 80,000 polluting diesel vehicles sold in the United States as the German automaker on Tuesday took new steps to put its emissions cheating...
Dec 20 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired National Ethics Bureau Inc. in Carlsbad, Calif.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Japheth Smellie and his team will continue to operate from their Southern California location...