All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 25 2023 // Spectators at Disneyland’s popular “Fantasmic” show got a shock this weekend when the feature’s fire-breathing animatronic dragon suddenly burst into flames.No injuries were reported following the...
Apr 24 2023 // California will provide 100% of the water requested by cities and farms for the first time in years thanks to winter storms that filled reservoirs and runoff from a record snowpack, regulators announced.The State Water...
Apr 21 2023 // Pensionmark acquired Xponential Growth Solutions in San Diego, California. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. XGS is a retirement benefits consultant. Pensionmark is a World Insurance Associates LLC company. Pensionmark...
Apr 20 2023 // An insurance company offering home warranties must refund Californians who were reportedly deceived by a misleading mailer sent to hundreds of thousands of consumers.According to an investigation by the California...
Apr 19 2023 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s Governing Committee voted on Wednesday to authorize the WCIRB to submit a Sept. 1, 2023 pure premium rate filing to the state’s Insurance...
Apr 19 2023 // As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a small piece of land on a Native American reservation in Palm Springs he described as a “little world of its own,” surrounded by the parts of the city that were...
Apr 18 2023 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara made two reappointments to the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s governing committee. Diana Rich is the director of risk management for...
Apr 18 2023 // Capitola in California has raised $15.6 million in its Series A funding round led by Munich Re Ventures.The firm reports this round will be used to grow Capitola’s platform with an emphasis on its market intelligence...
Apr 18 2023 // California private security company owner Luis Burgos, 50, and his former business partner, Sohan Singh, 57, were charged for their alleged involvement in a workers’ compensation insurance fraud scheme after an...
Apr 17 2023 // A California church that defied safety regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic by holding large, unmasked religious services must pay $1.2 million in fines, a judge has ruled.Calvary Chapel in San Jose was fined last week...
Apr 17 2023 // Only remnants of California’s three-year drought remain after winter’s epic storms. The U.S. Drought Monitor reported last week that areas of drought cover less than 9% of the state, down from more than 99% at...
Apr 17 2023 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and the California FAIR Plan Association agreed to more than double its existing commercial coverage limits to $20 million for businesses unable to find coverage in the normal...
Apr 17 2023 // A San Diego jury has awarded more than $46 million to a man who suffered a catastrophic spinal injury during a beginner jiu-jitsu class five years ago, attorneys said.Jack Greener was enrolled at Del Mar Jiu-Jitsu Club in...
Apr 17 2023 // The California Privacy Protection Agency finalized its first substantive rulemaking package to further implement the California Consumer Privacy Act, which was approved by the California Office of Administrative Law. The...
Apr 13 2023 // An offshore pipeline involved in a 2021 oil spill that fouled Southern California beaches is being put back in service, the operator said.Amplify Energy Corp. said that it received approval from federal regulatory agencies...
Apr 13 2023 // An environmental group has sued to block Pacific Gas & Electric from seeking to extend the federal operating licenses for California’s last nuclear power plant.A complaint filed in San Francisco Superior Court by...
Apr 13 2023 // Five defendants were arraigned this week on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found a landscaping company some of the defendants owned allegedly...
Apr 12 2023 // The massive rainfall and snow California received this winter will likely delay the upcoming wildfire season for the state – though all that moisture is unlikely to curtail it much if at all, a wildfire report out today...
Apr 12 2023 // A California Department of Insurance-led investigation with assistance from the California Department of Justice has resulted in the arraignment of 12 suspects on more than 110 felony counts including conspiracy, insurance...
Apr 11 2023 // Formerly licensed insurance agent Gregory Magedman, 77, of Fullerton, California, appeared in court on one felony count of grand theft by embezzlement after allegedly failing to give an insurance payment to a...