All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 29 2024 // A 26-year-old man has been accused of igniting a destructive California wildfire in early July by throwing a firework from a car window during hot, dry and windy weather.Spencer Grant Anderson, of Oroville, was charged...
Aug 28 2024 // Cody Chiverton has spent the past decade lighting fires. As a former firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service, he participated in dozens of prescribed burns across the American West, in which fire-prevention teams would...
Aug 27 2024 // California’s wildfires are weighing on home prices more than in the past, and insurance availability does little to help in areas considered to be at higher risk, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco...
Aug 22 2024 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into a crash and fire involving a Tesla electric semi-truck on a California highway, the agency said late Wednesday.The NTSB will carry out the...
Aug 22 2024 // California legislators are set to vote on a bill as soon as this week that would broadly regulate how artificial intelligence is developed and deployed in California even as a number of tech giants have voiced broad...
Aug 22 2024 // Ricardo Lara California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara named several new members to the state’s insurance advisory boards and committees. Timothy Hyamn was named to the California Insurance Guarantee Advisory...
Aug 20 2024 // Small-scale cannabis farmers in California are calling it quits, crushed by crop damage from devastating wildfires and sliding prices, and industry experts expect the exodus to continue near-term in the largest pot market...
Aug 19 2024 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has invited public input as he begins the final phase of approving a “first of its kind” catastrophe modeling and ratemaking regulation that “will help...
Aug 19 2024 // Freeway Insurance, a division of Confie, a large personal lines agency and brokerage in the United States, has expanded with six new franchises in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and California. In south Florida James Ospina...
Aug 16 2024 // Chevron Corp. is to pay Richmond City Council $550 million over 10 years, the city said in a statement, in a settlement that saw it drop a proposed ballot on a new tax on the oil major’s Richmond refinery.Richmond...
Aug 15 2024 // Hundreds of people were allowed to return home this week after being forced to flee a wildfire west of Reno that also shut down Interstate 80 along the California-Nevada line.About 170 firefighters continued to work to...
Aug 14 2024 // ALKEME acquired Dunhill Marketing & Insurance Services in San Diego, California. Founded in 1992, Dunhill Insurance Services offers insurance services and specializes in life insurance and annuities with a focus on...
Aug 13 2024 // The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that a magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck an area southeast of of Highland Park, California on Monday.The quake was 7.4 miles deep and struck at 12:20 p.m. PST, according to the USGS....
Aug 13 2024 // Ten of the top 15 metropolitan areas for wildfire risk concentration are in California, while more than 2.6 million homes across 14 states with a total reconstruction cost of $1.3 trillion are at moderate to very high risk...
Aug 12 2024 // PCF Insurance Services acquired the insurance business of DLD Insurance Brokers in Irvine, California. DLD Insurance Brokers specializes in serving companies in the construction, real estate, manufacturing, medical device...
Aug 9 2024 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Friday released a statement on his latest administrative action designed to address the state’s homeowners insurance crisis.Lara today issued a bulletin implementing...
Aug 8 2024 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a one-year moratorium on insurance companies to preserve residential insurance coverage for more than 185,000 policyholders affected by the Park, Borel and Gold Complex...
Aug 7 2024 // A fast-moving wildfire that swept into a Southern California hillside community this week destroyed five homes and damaged three others, authorities said.The flames erupted Monday afternoon and chased residents from the...
Aug 6 2024 // The Park Fire continues to slowly grow to 647 square miles, as thousands of firefighters continue to work to gain more control over the Northern California blaze, which is now the state’s fourth largest on record.The...
Aug 6 2024 // BenefitMall Appoints Bishop Benefits Sales Executive for Southern CaliforniaBenefitMall hired Crystal Bishop as a benefits sales executive for Southern California. Bishop has more than 20 years of experience in the...