All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 13 2024 // Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price’s Consumer Justice Bureau has sued multiple home insurance carriers in California, including Farmers Insurance Exchange, alleging they’re operating a scheme that...
Jun 12 2024 // Rate increases do not necessarily erode customer satisfaction with auto insurers, according to the J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Auto Insurance Study.The consumer intelligence company reported that when customers have a high level...
Jun 12 2024 // As lobbyists for businesses and labor groups negotiate with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration on how to amend a unique California labor law that allows workers to sue their bosses, the two sides seem to agree on at...
Jun 12 2024 // A pair of businessmen were arraigned on multiple felony counts including insurance fraud, grand theft, and tax fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found they allegedly underreported over $29.2...
Jun 11 2024 // Tesla Inc. failed to persuade an administrative judge to dismiss claims by a California regulator that the company overstated its vehicles’ self-driving capabilities — one of several ongoing regulatory...
Jun 11 2024 // A U.S. appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by Uber and subsidiary Postmates to revive a challenge to a California law that could force the companies to treat drivers as employees rather than independent contractors who...
Jun 10 2024 // California’s Central Valley will have another round of searing temperatures that will boost energy demand this week, reaching a high of 103F (39C) in Sacramento on Tuesday.A heat advisory is in place for the state...
Jun 10 2024 // Elon Musk and his companies are embroiled in dozens of lawsuits, ranging from fatal crashes blamed on Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot system to civil rights complaints over the treatment of employees.Tesla’s board and...
Jun 10 2024 // Lax oversight by California’s transportation agency contributed to a destructive blaze last year that consumed a vital section of a Los Angeles freeway used by hundreds of thousands of commuters, according to a state...
Jun 7 2024 // A California city has been awarded a grant to study insurance protections from sea level rise.The City of Imperial Beach received an $848,000 grant to develop flooding adaptation strategies to help prepare residents for...
Jun 7 2024 // Emerald Bay Risk Solutions and Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. have launched a commercial earthquake facility that provides difference in conditions insurance policies for medium to large businesses. Arrowhead EQ...
Jun 5 2024 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Combined Benefits Inc., Combined Commercial Insurance Services LLC., and Combined Employer Services Inc. Donny Woo, CEO, and Jonathan Zhao, vice president of payroll, and the...
Jun 4 2024 // California’s first big fire of the season is nearly fully contained, as rising temperatures across the West this week are increasing the risk of wildfires.The Corral fire, burning east of San Francisco in San Joaquin...
Jun 3 2024 // Severe heat will raise the risk of brush and grassfires from central and northern California, also bringing a moderate to and high risk of wildfires in parts of Arizona and New Mexico, a forecast out on Monday shows.The...
Jun 3 2024 // Firefighters battling a California wildfire burning east of San Francisco have increased containment on the fire, but hot weather is in the forecast for the next few days.Nearly 500 firefighters, along with several air...
Jun 3 2024 // “The guys did get stung on a regular basis. Everyone got stung at least a couple of times.” — Fire Chief Travis Leary, of Clinton, Maine, said of first responders who had worked to ensure that the 15...
Jun 3 2024 // Neptune Flood, Charles River DataPrivate flood insurer Neptune Flood reported it acquired Charles River Data, a Boston-based data science consulting group. Charles River Data was founded by data scientists from Google and...
Jun 3 2024 // An investigation that began after an employee was found dead in a company owned semi-truck led to the arraignment of a California man on three felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud.Heigo Kubar, 84, of Fresno,...
Jun 3 2024 // Zurich North America, headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, named Kara Higginbotham head of professional liability and cyber for U.S. national accounts, leading a team of underwriters who serve Zurich’s largest U.S....
May 31 2024 // The California Supreme Court has resolved a question about insurance coverage for COVID-19 business shutdowns in the issue of a virus exclusion in a ruling that is consistent with the vast majority of courts nationwide:...