All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 30 2015 // Five people, including a former hospital executive and two surgeons, are charged with a massive kickback scheme that resulted in billing $580 million to the government and insurance companies, authorities announced.Two...
Nov 30 2015 // The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant and earthquake faults have been uneasy neighbors for decades. Even before the twin reactors produced a single watt of electricity, the plant had to be retrofitted after a submerged...
Nov 25 2015 // The annual march of migrant marijuana workers throughout California’s pot-rich North Coast is in full swing but, like the pot industry itself, reaction to the workers’ presence is mixed.Some residents say the...
Nov 25 2015 // Federal transportation officials are rethinking their position on self-driving cars with an eye toward getting the emerging technology into the public’s hands, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of...
Nov 24 2015 // Fifty seven and a half cents for every mile logged.That’s the latest demand from Uber Technologies Inc. drivers in California suing to be treated like employees. Whether the drivers can pursue pay for mileage on...
Nov 23 2015 // Google has officially launched the newest addition to its suite of Google Compare products: mortgages.Google Compare for Mortgages was announced earlier this year, and is now being made available in California with more...
Nov 23 2015 // Three California men have filed lawsuits against manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of electronic cigarettes, claiming the products’ batteries exploded, causing severe injuries.The Los Angeles Daily News...
Nov 20 2015 // The California Department of Industrial Relations has posted the state’s 2014 occupational injury and illness data, which offers a look at employer-reported injuries involving days away from work.The data shows that...
Nov 20 2015 // A U.S. appeals court this week denied ride service Uber’s request to immediately appeal an order approving class certification in a lawsuit filed by drivers who wish to be deemed employees.The ruling, from the 9th...
Nov 20 2015 // Many states across the country are unprepared to face the risks posed extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to a new report card.Only a small number...
Nov 19 2015 // Valentino H. Douglas, 45, of Rialto, Calif., was arrested and booked into the West Valley Detention Center on multiple counts of felony insurance fraud after receiving more than $112,000 in workers’ compensation...
Nov 19 2015 // Tanner Fornesi, assistant vice president at Heffernan Insurance Brokers, has been named vice chairman for the Sacramento chapter of the California Trucking Association.Fornesi’s new duties will include attending...
Nov 18 2015 // Federal regulators have hit the owner of California’s last operating nuclear power plant with a low-level violation for bungling an earthquake-related safety evaluation when it was swapping out important...
Nov 18 2015 // California regulators are investigating whether a double-decker tour bus that crashed and injured 20 in San Francisco was properly registered with state authorities.The California Public Utilities Commission said this week...
Nov 17 2015 // Hustling to bring cars that drive themselves to a road near you, Google finds itself somewhere that has frustrated many before: Waiting on the California Department of Motor Vehicles.The tech titan wants the freedom to...
Nov 17 2015 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau released this year’s evaluation of California’s workers’ comp reform law.The WCIRB Cost Monitoring Report — 2015 Retrospective Evaluation is part...
Nov 16 2015 // A whopper of a winter appears to be brewing for the Western U.S. and more conversations are turning to preparations for what could be one of the strongest El Nin᷈os on record.Strong rains throughout much of California...
Nov 16 2015 // Confie has acquired California Insurance Specialists, Confie announced on Monday.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Wayne Pratt, who joined CIS in 1976, and Randy Parker, who joined in 1993, will continue as president...
Nov 16 2015 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau released a study in November showing significant differences in the costs of claims among the state’s regions – particularly Los...
Nov 16 2015 // There’s little question that the drought and the recent wildfire season that it unleashed pushed more California homeowners into the surplus lines market.Now with what appears to be a strong El Niño on the horizon...