All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 31 2024 // Last month, Mike Weber got the news every poultry farmer fears: His chickens tested positive for avian flu.Following government rules, Weber’s company, Sunrise Farms, had to slaughter its entire flock of egg-laying...
Jan 29 2024 // A fast-moving atmospheric river coming off the Pacific Ocean will drench northern and central California on Wednesday and then head for the the southern half of the state.Northwest California will likely get the worst of...
Jan 29 2024 // Symphony Risk Solutions is launching a new specialty business focused exclusively on the risk management and human capital needs of the energy industry, Symphony Energy.Symphony Risk Solutions is a risk management and...
Jan 26 2024 // General Motors Co. blamed poor leadership for mishandling its Cruise robotaxi crisis, an admission the carmaker is hoping will help get its cars back on the roads.A report by the law firm Quinn Emanuel, hired by GM and...
Jan 26 2024 // GSK, Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies are urging a judge in Delaware this week to find that evidence plaintiffs’ lawyers want to use in about 72,000 lawsuits claiming that the discontinued heartburn drug...
Jan 26 2024 // Los Angeles County agreed to pay $5 million to the founder and CEO of a software company who was briefly accused of stealing data on county poll workers in a case he said was pushed by conspiracy theorists.The Board of...
Jan 26 2024 // Glenn Pomeroy, former CEO of the California Earthquake Authority (CEA), joined GeoVera as executive vice president of marketing and regulatory affairs effective February 1. GeoVera is headquartered in Fairfield,...
Jan 25 2024 // A lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after being held in a Northern California jail alleges he contracted a preventable viral infection there when its medical staff denied him critical HIV medication for two...
Jan 25 2024 // A home surveillance video camera helped lead investigators to five Southern California residents for allegedly staging an auto collision to collect an insurance payout.Each defendant has been charged with one felony count...
Jan 24 2024 // The Hartford confirmed this week it will discontinue writing new homeowners policies in California.The carrier reportedly has less than 1% of the state’s homeowners market. The Hartford issued the following statement...
Jan 24 2024 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office reached a $1 million settlement against the Cheesecake Factory Restaurants Inc. and two janitorial contractors for reportedly underpaying 589 janitorial workers.The...
Jan 23 2024 // The odds are rising that California and the West will be struck by a plume of moisture known as an atmospheric river from Jan. 30 to Feb. 3, the US Climate Prediction Center said in a social media post.The agency said...
Jan 23 2024 // A small airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast on Sunday was constructed piece by piece over nearly a decade, one of tens of thousands of home-built aircraft that are part of a high-flying hobby...
Jan 23 2024 // Dale Gunter joined Aspire General Insurance as general counsel. Gunter’s previous role was with National General/Allstate. He has over 30 years of insurance experience, joining National General Insurance when it was...
Jan 22 2024 // The family of a California college student who vanished nearly three decades ago sued the school, alleging it caused Kristin Smart’s murder through negligence.Smart, then 19, disappeared from California Polytechnic...
Jan 22 2024 // Confie, Acceptance InsuranceConfie has added Acceptance Insurance’s retail division to its family of brands. Confie said its latest acquisition expands its footprint to 26 states across the U.S. with the retail store...
Jan 22 2024 // The excess and surplus lines insurance market is a rapidly-growing avenue for the placement of insurance policies in the United States.Many alien (non-U.S.) insurance carriers write surplus lines insurance coverage via...
Jan 19 2024 // The excess and surplus lines homeowners’ insurance market in California has undergone significant changes in recent years.The number of policies has changed substantially in over the last decade—first increasing,...
Jan 19 2024 // Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., appointed Greg Zimmer as chief executive officer. Zimmer joined Alliant in 1998 as chief financial officer and was named president in 2007. He assumes the role...
Jan 19 2024 // The California Department of Insurance is urging business owners to verify the insurance coverage for any subcontractor or vendor they do business with after trucking company owner and operator Raymond Youash, 37, of...