All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 27 2022 // Federal officials have initiated a criminal investigation into PG&E Corp.’s potential role in starting California’s largest wildfire of the year.On Sept. 24, the US Forest Service removed one of the...
Sep 27 2022 // San Diego County and other defendants have agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the mother of a Mexican citizen who died after sheriff’s deputies arrested him in 2018, officials said.The lawsuit...
Sep 26 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday ordered insurers to preserve residential insurance coverage following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest emergency declarations.The commissioner’s order shields...
Sep 26 2022 // A judge has approved a $230 million lawsuit settlement by the owners of a pipeline that spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil into the ocean off California in 2015, lawyers announced.A federal judge in Los Angeles...
Sep 26 2022 // Pinnacol Assurance in Denver, Colorado, named Wes Parham vice president of public affairs. Parham will have responsibility for legislative strategy, lobbying efforts, community relations and external advocacy.Parham is an...
Sep 26 2022 // Extraordinary use of electricity has long been a telltale sign of illegal grow houses producing thousands of marijuana plants hidden in seemingly ordinary homes.But a lawsuit filed by a data privacy watchdog says a...
Sep 23 2022 // California has a wildfire crisis. Arguably, the entire Western United States has a wildfire crisis, but California’s crisis is of an entirely different magnitude.California also has a homeowners insurance crisis....
Sep 22 2022 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released an updated California Workers’ Compensation Aggregate Medical Payment Trends report for 2021.The latest annual report compares medical...
Sep 22 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday ordered insurance companies to preserve residential insurance coverage following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest wildfire emergency declarations.Lara’s...
Sep 22 2022 // Venbrook Group LLC named Louis Pippin as chief claims officer of Venbrook Claims Services.Pippin has nearly 30 years of experience in the areas of multi-line property/casualty liability lines, case management, cost...
Sep 21 2022 // San Diego, California, officials approved a $600,000 payout to a woman who was severely injured when a police dog attacked her in her own yard after escaping from its trainer’s home nearby.A lawsuit filed by Jenna...
Sep 20 2022 // A woman who went missing after recent flash floods unleashed mudslides that swept through her town in the Southern California mountains has been found dead under a pile of mud, rocks and other debris, authorities...
Sep 19 2022 // The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is funding research to better predict who wildfires spread from burning wildlands to communities.CalFire awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers Albert...
Sep 19 2022 // California could soon become the seventh state to make sure people won’t lose their jobs if they smoke marijuana when they’re off the clock.State lawmakers in late August passed a bill to stop companies from...
Sep 19 2022 // California lawmakers approved a nation-leading measure that would give more than a half-million fast food workers more power and protections, over the objections of restaurant owners who warn it would drive up...
Sep 16 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Friday ordered insurers to preserve residential insurance coverage following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest emergency declaration over as another major wildfire threatens...
Sep 16 2022 // A rape victim whose DNA from her sexual assault case was used by San Francisco police to arrest her in an unrelated property crime on filed a lawsuit against the city.During a search of a San Francisco Police Department...
Sep 16 2022 // Rescuers searched this week for a person missing in a mudslide that swept boulders down fire-scarred slopes and damaged or destroyed 30 homes in the Southern California mountains as firefighters in the northern part of the...
Sep 16 2022 // After hitting a record low in 2021, the number of independent medical reviews used to resolve California workers’ comp medical disputes continued to decline in the first half of 2022 according to the California...
Sep 15 2022 // Rescuers searched for a person missing this week in a mudslide as big yellow tractors plowed through dark, thick sludge and pushed boulders off roads after flash floods swept dirt, rocks and trees down fire-scarred slopes,...