All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 17 2024 // California topped the ranking for the states with the fewest fire departments per 100,000 people, a new study shows.The study out this week shows California tied with Florida, and Nevada ranking second and Arizona ranking...
Jan 17 2024 // Alliant Insurance Services launched a student health specialty within Alliant Public Entity, offering student medical insurance for domestic and international students. The firm says its program helps higher educational...
Jan 16 2024 // Federal lawmakers introduced a bill to create a federal natural catastrophe backstop recently, reacting to insurers’ issues with growing private reinsurance costs. But a trade group for carriers suggested that a...
Jan 16 2024 // Tyler Banks joined Alliant Insurance Services as executive vice president, Alliant Private Client. Banks previously served as North America practice leader, president and CEO, personal lines at WTW. Alliant is based in...
Jan 12 2024 // An avalanche roared through a section of expert trails at a California ski resort near Lake Tahoe on Wednesday, sweeping up four people and killing one, as a major storm with snow and gusty winds moved into the region,...
Jan 12 2024 // California lawmakers who want to ban tackle football for kids under 12 to reduce brain injuries gained ground this week in the Legislature but still face a very long field and a clock that is ticking.Though it was a school...
Jan 12 2024 // Two California cities made the list of cities most likely to experience flood damage in a new study.Stockton and Sacramento were among the most likely to experience flood damage based on data from the 200 largest cities in...
Jan 11 2024 // A California man was sentenced to four years in prison for seeking to win a $100 million lawsuit by making false sexual assault claims against Hollywood executives.Rovier Carrington, 34, of Los Angeles was sentenced in...
Jan 10 2024 // California ranks fourth for high business startup and maintenance costs, following No. 1 ranked New York as as the most expensive state for entrepreneurs, with high commercial rent costs, weekly wages, and LLC filing...
Jan 10 2024 // Public Citizen on Tuesday called on the California Attorney General Robert Bonta to investigate whether OpenAI should retain its non-profit status based on recent news reports that suggest tthe nonprofit may be acting...
Jan 9 2024 // More than a month after an arson fire at a storage yard damaged a key Los Angeles freeway, the state has hired security guards to watch out for smoke and other trouble at three additional sites beneath Interstate 10 that...
Jan 5 2024 // Driverless trucks with no humans on board will soon cruise Texas highways if three startup firms have their way, despite objections from critics who say financial pressures, not safety, is behind the timetable.After years...
Jan 5 2024 // Black people accounted for nearly 13% of traffic stops in California in 2022, far above their 5% share of the state’s population, according to a report released Wednesday under a law designed to address racial...
Jan 4 2024 // A U.S. anti-discrimination agency has asked a federal judge to reject Tesla Inc’s bid to pause a lawsuit alleging widespread racial bias at the electric carmaker’s flagship Fremont, California, assembly...
Jan 4 2024 // California lawmakers returned to work this week for the start of an election-year legislative session dominated by decisions on artificial intelligence and the state`s struggling budget.The budget is a big issue every year...
Jan 4 2024 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute named Gideon L. Baum chief operating officer. He will take over the role on Feb. 1. Baum most recently served as the vice president of policy at the California Hospital...
Jan 3 2024 // SES Risk Solutions, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., named Shaun Shenouda president. Shenouda takes over the role from Bill Mecklenburg, who recently assumed leadership of Alliant Underwriting Solutions as senior managing...
Dec 29 2023 // Aspire General Insurance Company, headquartered in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., named Bilal Alam actuary and chief data officer and Tom Newgarden as an Aspire board member. Alam previously served as vice president and head of...
Dec 29 2023 // Alphabet’s Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately.U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in...
Dec 29 2023 // With a few days left to go until next year, it can be said that 2023 has officially shattered climate records.A World Meteorological Organization provisional State of the Global Climate report confirmed that 2023 is set to...