All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 24 2015 // King Insurance has created a strategic partnership with Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. to sell Hyundai’s recently filed, California Homeowner Insurance products. Policies will be sold through King’s...
Sep 24 2015 // Kevin Eggleston has joined HUB California as managing director responsible for the hospitality practice.Eggleston will be based in the HUB California Sacramento office. Eggleston began his career in management positions...
Sep 24 2015 // The tropical Pacific is sending a big dollop of rain into the U.S. Southwest. While it won’t help much in drought-ridden California, it’s another step in the right direction for Arizona and New Mexico.The...
Sep 23 2015 // A pair of massive California wildfires that have destroyed more than 2,000 structures are now considered among the most damaging fires in state history, and they could change the way insurers view risk or conduct...
Sep 23 2015 // President Barack Obama declared a major disaster Tuesday in a Northern California wildfire that has destroyed at least 1,200 homes and killed at least three people.The declaration issued for the fire that broke out in Lake...
Sep 21 2015 // There are lots of reasons people live in California’s Modjeska Canyon.Nestled against the mountains and abutting the Cleveland National Forest, the area has abundant wildlife and access to nature, yet is just a 20...
Sep 21 2015 // A former Uber Technologies Inc. driver defeated the company’s bid to force her into arbitration, a second victory after California’s labor commissioner said she should have been considered an employee.A San...
Sep 21 2015 // Warming temperatures and a historic drought made Northern California’s Valley fire faster to spread and harder to fight. But the bigger culprit, sadly but thankfully, was something under human control: forest...
Sep 21 2015 // It has been several days since two huge wildfires in Northern California peaked in their ferocity, yet the damage they did is still being revealed daily.The tally of homes destroyed topped 1,000 on Saturday after...
Sep 21 2015 // Demotech’s review of second quarter 2015 data, as recently reported by insurers to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, shows that workers’ compensation insurers reported a 5.3 percent increase...
Sep 21 2015 // A California Labor Commission ruling in June that an Uber driver is an employee and not a contractor opens the door to more scrutiny over the rideshare giant’s business model, but that was just the proverbial tip of...
Sep 21 2015 // There may be nothing more synonymous with Los Angeles County than the tall, waving palm trees that line so many busy boulevards and beach fronts.Yet the towering icons of Southern California have a dark side. Palm trees...
Sep 18 2015 // A group of drought experts gathered in California this week, and it wasn’t long before the conversation turned to El Niño.They weren’t touting it as the savior that will end the state’s four-year...
Sep 18 2015 // Alliant Insurance Services has named Christopher David Harney a senior vice president in its real estate group. He will be based in Alliant’s Newport Beach, Calif. headquarters office. Harney will provide risk...
Sep 18 2015 // The Department of Industrial Relations has posted preliminary workplace fatality statistics for California in 2014 that show a decline.The Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data reflect a total of 334 fatal work...
Sep 18 2015 // Constance Gail Fortune, 61, pleaded guilty this week to one felony count of grand theft by embezzlement and one felony count of theft from an elder or dependent adult in a case in which she was charged with scamming...
Sep 18 2015 // This wrap-up of recent intellectual property cases covers chocolate bar shapes, cookware designs, sneaker similarities, Korean TV copyright device, Quizno’s commercials, personal transporter technology, Oscar award...
Sep 17 2015 // The solution to reducing carbon emissions may be just around the corner.Car sharing can reduce gas consumption and could ultimately help in the battle to curb climate change, according to a Natural Resources Defense...
Sep 16 2015 // A pair of massive blazes in the Northern California are a bleak reminder of how bad things can get in a state with persistent drought and windy conditions.A more worrisome thought is California’s official wildfire...
Sep 16 2015 // A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a San Diego woman who died after eating Salmonella-tainted cucumbers.KNSD-TV reported that 99-yearold Mildred Hendricks died Aug. 17 after eating the cucumbers and...