All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 18 2014 // The owner of a Sonoma County windshield repair business accused in a fraudulent billing scheme has been ordered to pay Allstate Insurance and the state of California more than $1.4 million. Court records allege Alkayisi...
Aug 18 2014 // The owner of a Sonoma County windshield repair business accused in a fraudulent billing scheme has been ordered to pay Allstate Insurance and the state of California more than $1.4 million. Court records allege Alkayisi...
Aug 15 2014 // Jacob Richard Bonzer, 27, formerly of Lake Forest, Calif. was arrested Wednesday in Chicago by a U.S. Marshals Task Force on 96 felony counts including grand theft, forgery and denial of benefits.According to a joint...
Aug 14 2014 // Once-teeming Lake Mead marinas are idle as a 14-year drought steadily drops water levels to historic lows. Officials from nearby Las Vegas are pushing conservation but also are drilling a new pipeline to keep drawing water...
Aug 14 2014 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Select Guard Insurance Services LLC has joined The Iroquois Group. Select Guard, division of Westwood Group LLC, offers a range of insurance products with a focus on power sports vehicle...
Aug 13 2014 // R-T Specialty Group has named Dina Dryden assistant vice president of RT Binding Authority in the firm’s La Jolla, Calif. Office. Dryden will be responsible for underwriting complex program and non-program risks...
Aug 12 2014 // Loral Space & Communications Inc. won a reversal of a $283 million damages award against its former unit Space Systems/Loral, as the winning company, ViaSat Inc., sought a court order barring further patent...
Aug 12 2014 // All smartphones sold in California would have to come with a “kill switch” to render them inoperable if lost or stolen under a bill passed by the legislature on Monday, the latest effort to stem an epidemic of...
Aug 11 2014 // First American Property and Casualty Insurance Group has named James J. Court president of the company.Court is based in the company’s office in Santa Ana, Calif. Dirk McNamee assumes the role of vice chairman. Court...
Aug 11 2014 // The owner of a Sonoma County windshield repair business accused in a fraudulent billing scheme has been ordered to pay Allstate Insurance and the state of California more than $1.4 million.The Santa Rosa Press Democrat...
Aug 8 2014 // The weakest link in the great global economic cog is the gazillion supply chains that bind us all.At one time these chains were an ironic metaphor. Instead of shackling companies, supply chains were providing ever greater...
Aug 8 2014 // A California-based insurance broker settled a lawsuit with a Los Angeles man by dropping off buckets full of thousands of quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies, his attorney said.Andres Carrasco, 76, filed a lawsuit in 2012...
Aug 7 2014 // Crystal & Co. has appointed four executives in the firm’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.Shawn Ram has joined as executive managing director and western region head leading California operations in San...
Aug 6 2014 // The California Natural Resources Agency has just released its Final Safeguarding California Plan for Reducing Climate Risk. The roughly 350-page plan is designed to provide policymakers with recommendations about how best...
Aug 6 2014 // Authorities are blaming the weekend storms for a giant sinkhole that’s gaped open on a Southern California street.The sinkhole, estimated at around 15 feet wide and 20 feet deep, opened Monday afternoon in Redlands...
Aug 5 2014 // Two wildfires that burned or threatened hundreds of homes in Northern California were bearing down on a small town as they plowed through more than 100 square miles of drought-stricken brush, and Tuesday brought a chance...
Aug 4 2014 // A pair of wildfires burning without restraint about 8 miles apart in northeast California became the focus of state and federal firefighters Sunday as authorities reported that one of the blazes had destroyed eight homes...
Aug 4 2014 // BOULDER, CO – (August 4, 2014) – ICAT, a leading provider of property insurance to businesses and residences in hurricane and earthquake exposed regions of the United States, is pleased to announce the launch of its...
Aug 4 2014 // A review by The Associated Press of California government data has found a wide discrepancy in how state and local fire officials apply fines and citations for failing to clear vegetation in areas prone to wildland...
Aug 4 2014 // Touting California’s still-young workers’ compensation reform law as a “pragmatic middle” compromise that seems to be working, two of the top officials responsible for the system talked up some of...