All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2014 // Are large California retailers required to have a device on hand to treat customers who fall victim to sudden cardiac arrest?The California Supreme Court is taking up that question during oral arguments. At issue is a...
May 5 2014 // Parsippany, N.J.-based York Risk Services Group Inc., a national provider of risk management, claims management, and managed care services, has acquired Sacramento, Calif.-based Bickmore.Bickmore is the operator of a risk...
May 5 2014 // With California in a drought, the coastal city of Santa Barbara is thinking about firing up a desalination plant that has been in storage for more than two decades.The city built the plant in the 1990s during the last...
May 5 2014 // Corona, Calif.-based Monster Beverage Corp. has agreed to settle an ongoing securities class action lawsuit against the company and two of its officers in federal district court in Los Angeles.The settlement, reportedly...
May 5 2014 // A California Assemblywoman introduced a bill in late April to regulate ridesharing companies like Uber, Lyft and Sidecar.Assembly Bill 2293, authored by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, D-Concord, would clarify existing...
May 5 2014 // Some people don’t need Earth Day to be reminded they live on a planet powered by the forces of nature.The recent string earthquakes on the Pacific belt may have hit home with California homeowners, who were already a...
May 5 2014 // A California bill to close a loophole that enables building on active earthquake faults without considering the impacts passed a key committee hurdle in late April.Senate Bill 1155, authored by state Sen. Ted Lieu,...
May 5 2014 // California workers’ compensation losses and loss adjustment expenses on insured claims injuries and illnesses are projected to hit an 11-year high for 2013, according to the Workers’ Compensation Insurance...
May 5 2014 // Lockton has launched a gaming, entertainment and sports practice to be based in Irvine, Calif.The group is part of Lockton’s Pacific operations and it integrates multiple vertical markets. Lockton’s gaming,...
May 5 2014 // The new sharable economy is growing across the country, and one question looms large: What are the insurance implications?Homeowners and renters understand the types of insurance they need and where they can buy coverage....
May 4 2014 // Betsy Montgomery, drove the same car on her 55th birthday that she drove as a 15-year-old living in south Jackson, Mississippi — a 1966 red Mustang that her dad bought from the original owner in 1973.How she got the...
May 2 2014 // It’s beginning look more and more like the Central Basin Municipal Water District in Southern California is going to be taking matters into its own hands in the face of being tossed out of the state’s largest...
May 2 2014 // With summer approaching state water managers say California’s snowpack is at 18 percent of average for the date.The Department of Water Resources on Thursday said the season’s final survey of the Sierra Nevada...
May 2 2014 // The Etiwanda Fire in Southern California fueled by strong winds and high gusts that forced more than 1,000 evacuations is now 53 percent contained, according to fire officials.The fire in San Bernardino County around...
Apr 30 2014 // Call it a little luck or good timing – maybe a bit of both– but an insurer focused on high net worth individuals has added California to the list of states in which it does business at a time when the number of wealthy...
Apr 30 2014 // SullivanCurtisMonroe named Skylor Harrison a broker associate in its Corona, Calif. location.Harrison’s primary focus will be the transportation and manufacturing industries. Prior to SCM, Harrison was vice president...
Apr 30 2014 // The Western Insurance Agents Association is throwing up some objections to a California Department of Insurance proposal that would enable the department’s hearing bureau to adjudicate agent/broker and carrier...
Apr 30 2014 // Google says its self-driving cars are motoring along: they can navigate freeways comfortably, albeit with a driver ready to take control. But city driving – with its obstacle course of stray walkers, bicyclists and blind...
Apr 29 2014 // The California Earthquake Authority reported Tuesday it has paid numerous claims for damage to homes that sustained “relatively minor damage” from the magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck La Habra on March...
Apr 29 2014 // A divided U.S. appeals court revived efforts by oil companies to force the federal government to reimburse them for the cost to clean up a Southern California site where they had dumped toxic sludge during World War II.By...