All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 31 2023 // State Farm’s announcement last week that the carrier was no longer writing new personal or business property/casualty policies in California “reflects the poor underwriting experience for California...
May 31 2023 // It’s been 35 years since Californians voted by a narrow majority to pass Proposition 103, completely overhauling how the nation’s largest state regulates the business of insurance.That’s an awfully long...
May 31 2023 // Hundreds of goats munch on long blades of yellow grass on a hillside next to a sprawling townhouse complex. They were hired to clear vegetation that could fuel wildfires as temperatures rise this summer.These voracious...
May 31 2023 // Delta Air Lines is facing a proposed class action lawsuit over advertising touting the U.S. carrier as carbon-neutral, according to a complaint filed on Tuesday in California federal court.The complaint, filed on behalf of...
May 30 2023 // A judge ruled that the U.S. government can keep using chemical retardant to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice pollutes streams in western states in violation of federal law.Halting the use of the red...
May 30 2023 // California regulators say the state is unlikely to run out of electricity this summer because of a big increase in power storage and a wet winter that filled the state’s reservoirs enough to restart hydroelectric...
May 30 2023 // Alphabet Inc’s Google must pay $32.5 million in damages for infringing one of smart-speaker maker Sonos Inc’s patents in its wireless audio devices, a San Francisco federal jury decided on Friday.The case is...
May 27 2023 // An insurer group was quick to respond over the weekend after State Farm announced it will cease accepting new applications for business and personal lines property/casualty in California to deal with increased risks and...
May 26 2023 // Inszone Insurance Services acquired Specialty Contractors Insurance Services. Specialty Contractors Insurance Services has predominantly served business owners and contractors. It is headquartered in Sacramento,...
May 26 2023 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a decision this week regarding the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s Sept. 1, 2023 regulatory filing. The Commissioner approved...
May 26 2023 // A California Department of Insurance investigation into misleading mailers on insurance claims following wildfires led to a ban of public adjuster and California Recovery Group owner Argen Youssefi of Glendale.The...
May 26 2023 // Aihara & Associates Insurance Services named Mike Kinoshita executive vice president. Kinoshita is a third-generation insurance agent and current senior client advisor at The J. Morey Company, an Ori-gen Family...
May 25 2023 // Walmart will pay half a million dollars to settle allegations from California’s Department of Justice that it was selling brass knuckles on its website, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said.Brass knuckles are...
May 25 2023 // Christopher Phelps, 40, of Yucaipa, and his wife, Kimberly Phelps, 40, were sentenced this week after pleading no contest to felony counts of insurance fraud, child abuse and assault with a deadly weapon.The sentencing...
May 24 2023 // When federal enforcers alleged in 2015 that New York surgeon Feng Qin had performed scores of medically unnecessary cardiac procedures on elderly patients, they decided not to pursue a time-consuming criminal case.Instead,...
May 22 2023 // Two people were killed when a small plane headed for Hawaii crashed in the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Northern California, federal officials said Sunday.The Viking Air DHC-6-400 Twin Otter crashed around 2:15...
May 22 2023 // Venbrook Group, LLC named Juan Aguilar chief financial officer. Aguilar has 20 years of industry experience, most recently serving 15 years at Aon PLC, where he held leadership roles across finance, operations and business...
May 19 2023 // The U.S. government is greenlighting a proposed multibillion-dollar transmission line that would send primarily wind-generated electricity from the rural plains of New Mexico to big cities in the West.The Interior...
May 19 2023 // Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani hired Rachel T. Velilla as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego, California offices. She joins the firm’s insurance, trucking and transportation and...
May 19 2023 // John Philip Ryan, 64, of Yucca Valley, California, was sentenced and ordered to pay more than $220,000 in restitution to victims after pleading guilty to two felony counts of financial elder abuse and grand theft of...