All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 6 2016 // A California mother has filed a second lawsuit against a school district, saying it failed to keep her special needs son safe even after losing the first lawsuit and agreeing to improve his supervision. The Bay Area New...
Jul 5 2016 // Forecasters say the threat of wildfires will remain high in Southern California and the Southwest this month because of persistent drought and because summer rains may not be as consistent as usual.The National Interagency...
Jul 1 2016 // A California school district has agreed to pay $10.5 million to a former student who suffered brain damage when he was mobbed while wearing a chicken costume at a pep rally.Kern County High School District agreed to the...
Jul 1 2016 // Monterey, Calif-based Capital Insurance Group has named Brian Janitschke chief actuary.His responsibilities will include directing the actuarial functions. As a member of the executive team, he also will be accountable for...
Jul 1 2016 // Update: The California Department of Insurance originally issued a cease and desist notice, not an order as is reported below. Due to wording in a press release issued from CDI, several news outlets reported an order was...
Jul 1 2016 // The California Earthquake Authority won the SAMMY Award for “overall Best of Show” at the 58th Annual Insurance Marketing & Communications Association Showcase Awards Gala.The SAMMY Award was voted on by...
Jul 1 2016 // The Property Casualty Association is urging California’s governor to sign a bill approved by the Legislature to ensure homeowners and renters offering rooms for rent on hosting platforms like Airbnb and Home Away...
Jun 28 2016 // A California wildfire that killed two people and destroyed 200 homes in the southern Sierra Nevada burned away from neighborhoods this week, clearing the way for some residents to return to homes that survived the savage...
Jun 28 2016 // Lafayette, Calif.-based Stone Creek Insurance Agency has named Megan Gracey a personal lines manager for its Northern California office. Gracey specializes in customer service, account management, annual client review and...
Jun 27 2016 // Fire crews are making inroads against a raging wildfire in central California that has claimed two lives and destroyed 200 homes.Roughly 2,000 firefighters were battling the blaze, according to officials. Federal fire...
Jun 27 2016 // A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval to ride service Lyft’s $27 million settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by California drivers who claimed they should be deemed employees instead of independent...
Jun 24 2016 // Lincoln Walworth, an investments executive for CSAA Insurance Group, has been appointed to the advisory board of the California Organized Investment Network.Since 1997, COIN has provided insurers with guidance on making...
Jun 24 2016 // Lockton has named Alex Michon an executive vice president and leader of client service and business development in its new Sacramento, Calif. office. Michon is a 21-year veteran of Aon, where he was vice president and...
Jun 24 2016 // The number of California drivers using cellphones is rising, as are deaths and injuries blamed on distracted driving.The California Office of Traffic Safety reported this week that nearly 13 percent of drivers were seen...
Jun 24 2016 // California’s last nuclear power plant will close by 2025 under an accord announced this week, ending three decades of safety debates that helped fuel the national anti-nuclear power movement.The state’s largest...
Jun 24 2016 // California’s insurance commissioner on Thursday urged national antitrust regulators to block health insurer Aetna Inc’s proposed $34 billion acquisition of Humana Inc.David Jones, whose state Department of...
Jun 23 2016 // Led Zeppelin won’t have to share royalties from one of rock-and-roll’s masterpieces after a jury found guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant didn’t steal the opening chords of “Stairway to...
Jun 23 2016 // A federal judge is allowing the bulk of a lawsuit accusing Starbucks of systematically under-filling lattes to move forward.Two California residents are suing the Seattle-based coffee chain, claiming that Starbucks lattes...
Jun 22 2016 // The recollections of Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Robert Plant about events 45 years ago were questioned a final time before jurors were asked to decide who to believe about the genesis of the band’s classic...
Jun 22 2016 // Michael Day and Judy Mann have been named to the board of Directors for Topa Insurance Group in California. Day was the chief financial officer for CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer, until his retirement in 2015. Mann...