All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 28 2023 // With a key deadline coming up on Dec. 31, Covered California announced that 161,670 people have signed up for 2024 coverage as of Dec. 23 during this open enrollment.That marks an 18% increase over the same period last...
Dec 27 2023 // California sued the Ralphs supermarket chain, alleging that it violated state law by asking job-seekers whether they had criminal records and illegally rejecting hundreds of applicants.The California Civil Rights...
Dec 26 2023 // A new Regional Resilience Grant Program aims to protect California communities from climate impacts like wildfire, drought, sea level rise and extreme heat.State leaders have unveiled a $21.7 million funding initiative in...
Dec 22 2023 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued an official notice to insurers regarding consumers who have been reporting issues obtaining auto insurance coverage.The California Department of Insurance continues to...
Dec 22 2023 // A new analysis of court cases in California over a year showed civil rights cases and personal injury cases were the most common civil cases in the state.Of the 25,636 civil cases in California for the 12-month period...
Dec 21 2023 // A new report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California shows written premium in 2022 was 14% above the previous year.The WCIRB’s Quarterly Experience Report is an update on California...
Dec 21 2023 // When a toilet is flushed in California, the water can end up in a lot of places – the ice in a skating rink, the manufactured snow on ski slopes, in pipes providing irrigation for farmland. And – coming soon – in...
Dec 20 2023 // Tesla Inc has asked a U.S. judge to pause a federal agency’s lawsuit accusing the electric carmaker of severe harassment of Black workers at its California assembly plant, saying two similar cases should play out...
Dec 19 2023 // Consolidation of health care services into large corporations that own hospitals, clinics and physician practices may hold the promise of more efficient and better-integrated care, but hasn’t led to better outcomes...
Dec 19 2023 // A Tesla driver will pay more than $23,000 in restitution for the deaths of two people during a 2019 car crash in a Los Angeles suburb, a decision announced the same day that the automaker recalled nearly all vehicles sold...
Dec 18 2023 // Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay about $54 million to settle discrimination claims brought by California’s civil rights agency on behalf of women employed by the video game maker.The settlement, which is subject...
Dec 18 2023 // The departments of insurance in California, New York and New Jersey approved double-digit auto rate increases for Allstate in the three states that the carrier considered exiting in the absence of approvals, the...
Dec 15 2023 // From a broad view, data from the cannabis industry fails to paint an informative picture of what lies ahead for the business in 2024 or what the year holds for insurance professionals specializing in servicing the...
Dec 15 2023 // Tesla Inc.’s biggest vehicle recall ever threatens to hurt the company’s defense in several high-profile lawsuits it faces over crashes linked to Autopilot.The automaker’s recall of 2 million cars comes...
Dec 15 2023 // Woodruff Sawyer named Luke Parsons the firm’s national private equity and venture capital practice group leader. Parsons was previously senior vice president of Woodruff Sawyer’s private equity and due...
Dec 14 2023 // Initial data on fiscal year 2022/23 public self-insured claims experience in the California workers’ compensation system show that public self-insured’s total claim volume, spurred by a sharp drop in indemnity...
Dec 14 2023 // Former Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza is being dropped from a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleged she was raped by San Diego State University football players in 2021, it was announced.The woman agreed to dismiss Araiza...
Dec 14 2023 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office collected $1.1 million in wages and penalties resulting from a prevailing wage assessment against general contractor Stronghold Engineering and its subcontractor, Perry...
Dec 12 2023 // A former First Republic Bank cloud engineer in San Francisco was sentenced to two years in prison for vandalizing the company’s computer network after he was fired in 2020.Miklos Daniel Brody logged into the...
Dec 12 2023 // California is facing a record $68 billion budget deficit, state officials announced, forcing hard choices for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in his final term as he works to build his national profile.The nation`s most...