All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 11 2021 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has acquired Rubicon M&A Insurance Services LLC in California. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Rubicon M&A, led by its founder Patrick Stroth, specializes in executive...
Oct 8 2021 // California is encouraging more use of fire to fight fire, such as when deliberately set burns were recently used to protect giant sequoias from a raging wildfire.But sometimes what are known as prescribed fires themselves...
Oct 8 2021 // U.S. Coast Guard investigators have boarded a massive cargo ship as they probe what caused the rupture of an offshore oil pipeline that sent crude washing up on Southern California beaches.The Coast Guard is investigating...
Oct 8 2021 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Verity Insurance Services Inc. and Bellehaven Management Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Covina, Calif., Verity Insurance is an independent...
Oct 7 2021 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a bill into law establishing a comprehensive regulatory framework for the manufacture and sale of hemp products in California.Newsom signed Assembly Bill 45. The bill alters...
Oct 7 2021 // San Diego will pay nearly $100,000 to a former city Streets Division worker who filed a lawsuit claiming he faced discrimination because he is Black and was retaliated against for complaining about unsafe work...
Oct 7 2021 // A man who owned a Southern California pharmacy was sentenced to over five years in prison after he admitted submitting more than $13 million in fraudulent insurance claims for expensive medication.Thu Van Le, 42, pleaded...
Oct 6 2021 // The California FAIR Plan Association announced on Wednesday it has submitted a farm product rate filing to the California Department of Insurance ahead of a 90-day deadline.The deadline to make the filing was imposed in...
Oct 6 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Wednesday directed three auto insurance companies to reimburse California drivers the excess premiums they were charged from the start of the pandemic, or face legal...
Oct 6 2021 // The U.S. Coast Guard received the first report of a possible oil spill off the Southern California coast more than 12 hours before a company reported the major leak in its pipeline and a cleanup effort was launched,...
Oct 6 2021 // A federal jury in Los Angeles awarded $6.3 million to actor Shannen Doherty on Monday in a lawsuit alleging that State Farm failed to pay sufficiently for damage to her house in a 2018 California wildfire.The jury found...
Oct 5 2021 // AGIA Inc. in Carpinteria, Calif., and its sister company Worldwide Rescue and Security, Inc. have been acquired by DOXA Insurance Holdings LLC.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. AGIA will continue operations under the...
Oct 5 2021 // IMA Financial Group named Donna MacConnell senior vice president, managing director of claims.MacConnell has more than 30 years in the industry, having led claims and coverage departments, and served as an individual...
Oct 4 2021 // More oil from a massive offshore spill landed on the southern California shore on Monday, with beaches closed and dead fish and birds washing up on shore as officials investigated whether a ship anchor striking a pipeline...
Oct 4 2021 // HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.— A large oil spill off the southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, in what local officials called an environmental catastrophe.The U.S. Coast...
Oct 4 2021 // California Governor Gavin Newsom last month signed a bill that limits warehouse employers like Amazon.com Inc. from setting productivity quotas, the first legislation of its kind in the United States.The new provisions...
Oct 4 2021 // Federal lawmakers introduced legislation in late September that would change 19th century maritime liability rules in response to the 2019 boat fire off the coast of Southern California that killed 34 people.The bill would...
Oct 1 2021 // Risk Strategies named Jim Schmidt as commercial lines leader for the West region.Schmidt will be responsible for building a regional strategy for the commercial property/ casualty business unit. Schmidt has more than 25...
Oct 1 2021 // A California judge on Thursday said several large counties accusing four drugmakers of fueling an opioid epidemic had presented a “dearth of evidence” during a multi-billion dollar trial to support finding the...
Sep 30 2021 // General Motors Co.’s Cruise and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo self-driving car subsidiaries on Thursday became the first companies to receive autonomous vehicle permits to offer rides to passengers in California.Cruise...