All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 7 2015 // Call it the invisible spill.You can’t see it, but it’s there – a steady stream of natural gas seeping out of the pipe casing in a well in Southern California that may spew as much greenhouse gas into the air...
Dec 7 2015 // A California workers’ compensation hearing representative was arrested for allegedly trying to steal a settlement check from his client.Department of Insurance detectives arrested Ramon Humerto Otero, 37, of...
Dec 7 2015 // A financial investigation was launched in mid-November into Barrett Business Services Inc., a giant professional employer organization that deals with many workers’ compensation carriers.The independent investigation...
Dec 7 2015 // Three California men have filed lawsuits against manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of electronic cigarettes, claiming the products’ batteries exploded, causing severe injuries. The three men, one of whom is a...
Dec 7 2015 // The California Department of Industrial Relation’s 2014 occupational injury and illness data shows that the incidence of occupational injuries remained at its lowest level in 13 years.The Survey of Occupational...
Dec 7 2015 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau in mid-November released this year’s evaluation of California’s workers’ comp reform law.The WCIRB Cost Monitoring Report — 2015 Retrospective...
Dec 3 2015 // Patricia Kuckenbaker has been named a surplus lines broker with SierraSpecialty’s team in Clovis, Calif. Kuckenbaker will be operating throughout the Western U.S. Her specialty is brokering contractors and...
Dec 2 2015 // More than eight-in-10 workers’ compensation cases in California were taken care of without a hitch, and an overwhelming majority of those cases sent to review were ultimately upheld, according to a new study...
Dec 2 2015 // Sometimes, small victories are worthy of celebration. A qualified celebration of just that variety is in order at the California Department of Insurance headquarters in Sacramento to mark the relative improvement in the...
Dec 2 2015 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based TLB Insurance has affiliated with Leavitt United Insurance Services, of which TLB will now be a subsidiary. As a subsidiary of Leavitt United, TLB will continue to operate locally. TLB is a...
Dec 1 2015 // A California farm is recalling a vegetable mix believed to be the source of E.coli in Costco chicken salad that has been linked to an outbreak that has sickened 19 people in seven states, the Food and Drug Administration...
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Nov 30 2015 // Paul Walker’s father has sued Porsche for negligence and wrongful death over the 2013 accident that killed the “Fast & Furious” star.Walker’s father, who is the executor of his son’s...
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...