All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 22 2014 // Isidro Santillan, 53, of Pacoima, Calif., has been arrested and charged with 13 counts of grand theft and three counts of commercial burglary.Santillan is alleged to have stolen more than $100,000 by selling insurance...
Sep 19 2014 // Brian Weaver, senior vice president of sales for Menlo Park, Calif.-based McGraw Group of Affiliated Cos., will retire effective Sept. 30.Cindy Roth will be joining the McGraw Group as senior vice president of sales and...
Sep 19 2014 // An out-of-control wildfire that was threatening more than 2,000 homes in Northern California showed explosive growth, consuming tens of thousands of additional acres, fire officials said Thursday.The fire east of...
Sep 18 2014 // Gov. Jerry Brown has signed Assembly Bill 2064, a bill aimed at changing the way Californians learn about earthquake insurance for their homes.Under California law, insurers that sell residential property insurance also...
Sep 18 2014 // Mercedes-Benz has followed Volkswagen AG’s Audi unit in getting a license to test self- driving vehicles on California roads as the luxury-car makers vie for a market predicted to grow to $87 billion by...
Sep 18 2014 // Tropical Storm Polo, the 16th storm of an unusually active eastern Pacific hurricane season, is on a path eerily like that of Odile, which blasted the Baja California peninsula earlier this week.Odile went ashore late...
Sep 17 2014 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law a bill to establish insurance requirements for transportation network companies and their drivers. Assembly Bill 2293, authored by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, D-Concord,...
Sep 17 2014 // Way back in 1988 it probably seemed like the idea of self-driving vehicles was about as far off as flying cars or hovercraft.That was the year California voters enacted Proposition 103, giving among other things an...
Sep 17 2014 // Californians will now need to take extra care to steer clear of cyclists.Under statewide regulations taking effect Tuesday, drivers must give bikes a buffer zone of at least 3 feet while passing. Cited violators will face...
Sep 17 2014 // Just days after a wildfire tore through a small Northern California town and destroyed scores of homes, crews on Wednesday battled another fast-moving blaze in the region that was also threatening residences.Hundreds of...
Sep 17 2014 // San Jose, Calif.-based NFP National Financial Partners Corp. has announced that Robert Ennis has joined the firm as vice president of employee benefits. Ennis has extensive benefits knowledge and leadership experience. He...
Sep 16 2014 // A wind-driven fire cut through a small California town near the Oregon border on Monday damaging or destroying 100 homes and prompting evacuation orders for at least 1,500 people, authorities said.The town near the base of...
Sep 15 2014 // Hurricane Odile, the strongest to hit Baja California Sur in decades, weakened slightly as it battered the Mexican peninsula with high winds and rain.Odile went ashore near the resort city of Cabo San Lucas at about 10:45...
Sep 15 2014 // Mexico issued a hurricane warning for parts of Baja California as Odile struck the resort area of Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip of the peninsula.Mexico declared a red alert along the coastline as well as the mainland...
Sep 12 2014 // Rick Hudson was sitting at his booth at the California Workers’ Compensation & Risk Conference on Thursday scanning emails on his smartphone during a slow period when he was asked what the most significant change...
Sep 12 2014 // California’s worn-out, congested roads and bridges are costing drivers $44 billion a year, a report released today shows.Higher vehicle operating costs, congestion-related delays and traffic accidents cost $2,458 per...
Sep 12 2014 // Forecasters say a heat wave building across Southern California will elevate fire danger through early next week. The National Weather Service says temperatures will edge upward to around 100 degrees in warmest areas...
Sep 12 2014 // A 65-year-old woman who suffered a head injury when a television struck her during last month’s earthquake in California’s wine country has died – the first death attributed to the magnitude-6.0 temblor,...
Sep 11 2014 // American Apparel will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of an employee in a knitting machine accident. The Orange County district attorney’s office announced the settlement Tuesday. The worker’s...
Sep 10 2014 // San Diego, Calif.-based Champion Risk & Insurance Services L.P. announced that Marc Crawford has joined the firm as a producer. Prior to Champion Risk, Crawford worked for the Leavitt Group, where he handled complex...