All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 4 2016 // The WCIRB has submitted a pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance proposing Jan. 1, 2017 advisory pure premium rates lower than the corresponding industry average and less than the average...
Oct 4 2016 // A jury has awarded $3.35 million to Beth Burns, the former women’s basketball coach for San Diego State who claimed she was fired for being a whistleblower.Burns prevailed in a suit that claimed she was wrongfully...
Oct 3 2016 // Legal and regulatory squabbles in New York, California and other states involving Berkshire Hathaway and its Applied Underwriter affiliates over particular workers’ compensation products should not have any negative...
Oct 3 2016 // Southern California residents should remain on heightened alert until Tuesday for the increased possibility of a major earthquake, officials said.The warning by the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services follows a...
Oct 3 2016 // Californians will begin getting warnings of impending earthquakes through their cellphones, radios and other devices within the next year or two as the state ramps up a lifesaving early warning system, emergency management...
Oct 3 2016 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has issued a report that shows the share of drug payments made directly to dispensing physicians compared with pharmacies fell by 20 percent over three...
Oct 3 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 30 2016 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that establishes fair practices standards for public insurance adjusters and enhances consumer protections.Senate Bill 488, authored by state Sen. Marty Block, D-San Diego, and...
Sep 29 2016 // Two insurance groups praised California Gov. Jerry Brown over his signing on various insurance-related legislation.Brown recently approved legislation co-sponsored by the Association of California Insurance Companies to...
Sep 28 2016 // Topa Insurance Group has named Judith Provencher senior vice president in claims in its Calabasas, Calif. office. Provencher Oversees all claims operations within the Topa group, including Topa Insurance Co., a California...
Sep 28 2016 // A series of minor earthquakes rattled a rural area of Southern California near the U.S.-Mexico border this week, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.No injuries or damage were reported after more than 35 temblors struck in...
Sep 27 2016 // The California Earthquake Authority has seen a significant increase in the purchase of CEA policies so far in 2016, according to its top executive.CEA now has more than 908,000 policies in force, an increase of roughly...
Sep 27 2016 // Stone Creek Insurance Agency has named Sinead Brooks an assistant commercial account manager in its Lafayette, Calif. headquarters. Brooks has three years of experience and specializes in the niche of construction, but...
Sep 27 2016 // More evacuations were ordered Tuesday as a growing wildfire threatened remote communities in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains.The blaze in a rugged area 30 miles south of San Jose destroyed one home and charred more...
Sep 27 2016 // Scientists say two moderate earthquakes occurred off the Oregon and California coasts late Saturday and early Sunday but neither triggered a tsunami warning. The U.S. Geological Survey says a 5.0 earthquake occurred in the...
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...