All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 10 2014 // A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Eureka in Northern California, shaking regions as far away as San Francisco and parts of Oregon, according to the United States Geological Survey.The earthquake, which...
Mar 10 2014 // Marla Kasdorf has joined Redwoods-Leavitt in Northern California. Kasdorf will focus on employee benefits, life insurance and health insurance. Her prior insurance experience includes helping seniors with their health and...
Mar 10 2014 // The craft beer industry has been chipping away at the U.S. domestic beer market throughout the past decade. And the pace of growth in this specialty niche is not expected to stop anytime soon.By 2020, America’s craft...
Mar 10 2014 // Two women are suing Southern California Edison, claiming their electricity was cut off for refusing to pay a nearly $140,000 bill racked up by a marijuana grower.The suit filed in Los Angeles alleges breach of the service...
Mar 10 2014 // California’s high court has ruled that hosts who charge admission to parties may be held legally responsible if a drunken underage guest is hurt or injures someone else.The state Supreme Court said in the unanimous...
Mar 10 2014 // With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches.Practitioners of dowsing use rudimentary...
Mar 10 2014 // A former top executive at California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has admitted to charges of a conflict of interest in awarding contacts to a software firm while he was at State Fund, it was made public in...
Mar 10 2014 // Average facility fee payments to ambulatory surgery centers fell 26 percent per episode and 28 percent per procedure since fee schedule changes mandated by Senate Bill 863 were adopted last year.That’s according to a...
Mar 10 2014 // With California’s agricultural heartland entrenched in drought, almond farmers are letting orchards dry up and in some cases making the tough call to have their trees torn out of the ground, leaving behind empty...
Mar 10 2014 // The Leavitt Group has hired Jim Lineweaver, a client advisor, in its Tacoma, Wash., office.Lineweaver has 25 years of insurance experience. He specializes in large manufacturing risks, forest products, transportation,...
Mar 7 2014 // California’s sweeping workers’ compensation reform is working for the most part, but some of the savings may not materialize thanks to pressure on the system, according to Dave Bellusci, executive vice...
Mar 7 2014 // A California Yellow Pages company has filed a lawsuit against AT&T in a dispute over phone book advertising.The lawsuit filed by Fresno-based Valley Yellow Pages says a rival phone book run by AT&T is offering...
Mar 5 2014 // The state’s Drought Task Force says two recent storms that washed over drought-stricken California were welcome, but that the state still needs a lot more rain.California Natural Resources Agency Secretary John Laird...
Mar 5 2014 // Burnham Benefits Insurance Services Inc. is expanding into the Sacramento area and has named Steve Vilas as vice president. Vilas will spearhead expansion efforts in the region, he will establish a new office in Sacramento...
Mar 4 2014 // Ventura County sheriff’s deputies say Southern California traffic was safely diverted around a 20-foot-wide sinkhole at an Oxnard intersection.The 10-foot-deep hole opened Sunday at Ventura Road and Hemlock Street....
Mar 3 2014 // With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches.Practitioners of dowsing use rudimentary...
Feb 28 2014 // More than three months after it opened for business, California’s online health insurance marketplace had what federal officials described as a potential security flaw in its computer system and one that had already...
Feb 27 2014 // Consumer Watchdog has petitioned Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones a public hearing on the new program private passenger auto filings of Farmers Specialty Insurance Co.The Consumer Watchdog petition seeks to compel Farmers...
Feb 27 2014 // A couple is suing Sprint Corp., claiming an employee posted their nude photos online.City News Service says Tuesday’s lawsuit in Los Angeles alleges invasion of privacy and identity theft. According to the suit, the...
Feb 26 2014 // Average facility fee payments to ambulatory surgery centers fell 26 percent per episode and 28 percent per procedure since fee schedule changes mandated by Senate Bill 863 were adopted last year.That’s according to a...