All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 26 2016 // Insurance brokers who sold allegedly illegal workers’ compensation products from Berkshire Hathaway affiliates involved in legal and regulatory troubles in New York and California could end up being strapped with...
Sep 26 2016 // The California Supreme Court has agreed to consider a lawsuit that Yelp.com warns could lead to the removal of negative reviews on the popular site.The court agreed last week to take up an appeal by Yelp of a lower court...
Sep 26 2016 // Yahoo Inc. was sued on Friday by a user who accused it of gross negligence over a massive 2014 hacking in which information was stolen from at least 500 million accounts.The lawsuit was filed in the federal court in San...
Sep 25 2016 // Two former Wells Fargo & Co. employees have filed a class action in California seeking $2.6 billion or more for workers who tried to meet aggressive sales quotas without engaging in fraud and were later demoted, forced...
Sep 23 2016 // A former driver for Uber and Lyft has been charged with sexually assaulting several women while on the job, and Southern California investigators said that there are likely more victims.An 18-year-old college student...
Sep 22 2016 // Climate change will cause more earthquakes. It’s as simple as that.Deniers, start your engines. If that isn’t enough to enflame the smoldering embers of discourse within those ready to pounce on any and all...
Sep 22 2016 // Chemical manufacturing giant Dow fails to warn people in farming communities throughout California when a potentially dangerous pesticide is applied to nearby fields, health advocates claimed in a lawsuit filed...
Sep 21 2016 // A wildfire burning for nearly two months on California’s scenic Big Sur coast has surpassed $200 million in firefighting costs, becoming the costliest to fight in U.S. history, according to data released this...
Sep 21 2016 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty has named Dennis Mah winery team lead for North America. Mah is based in Sacramento, Calif., and he will report to Karen Walter, West zone farm and ranch lead. Mah will be...
Sep 20 2016 // Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance announced the formation of a new master agency in support of planned growth in the northern California region.Strategic Independent Insurance Agency Solutions is headquartered in Santa...
Sep 20 2016 // The husband of Jim Carrey’s former girlfriend is suing the actor, accusing him of illegally supplying Cathriona White with prescription drugs that resulted in her death.The wrongful death lawsuit filed by...
Sep 19 2016 // Small business employees who get health coverage through the Covered California health insurance exchange will see an average price increase of 5.9 percent next year.The figure announced last week affects roughly 28,000...
Sep 19 2016 // California is moving to study state balcony standards after a fatal collapse in Berkeley sent shock and horror across the globe last year.Legislation Gov. Jerry Brown signed last week creates a working group to recommend...
Sep 19 2016 // Yelp.com is warning that a California lawsuit targeting critical posts about a law firm could lead to the removal of negative reviews and leave consumers with a skewed assessment of restaurants and other businesses.Lawyer...
Sep 19 2016 // Wesley J. KinderOn a recent morning at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting in San Diego, Calif., a group of people with impressive credentials gathered to pay tribute a man they held in high...
Sep 19 2016 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Farmers Insurance has named Suzie Elliott head of human resources.With her new appointment, Elliott also becomes part of the group’s senior leadership team. She will report to Deborah...
Sep 19 2016 // Maintaining a culture of safety is a company-wide initiative for California- based El Pollo Loco, according to Shaun Jackson, director of risk management for the restaurant chain. While employee morale and predatory...
Sep 19 2016 // Data from the 14 U.S. surplus lines service/stamping offices show they have processed almost $13.1 billion in insurance premium filings in the first half of 2016, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas...
Sep 16 2016 // Auto and tech companies are in a race to get self-driving cars to the public, but as with many cutting-edge technologies, there aren’t enough trained engineers to meet the demand for talent.So Mountain View,...
Sep 16 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. won permission to settle claims it misled consumers by charging them a 20 percent “gratuity” even though drivers got only about half of it.U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco...