All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 29 2021 // A ruling in California has overturned an injunction against a new law preventing employers in California from making employees sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals...
Sep 29 2021 // Pacific Gas & Electric was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter and other crimes after its equipment sparked a Northern California wildfire that killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes last year,...
Sep 28 2021 // Written premium for 2020 was $1.9 billion, or 12%, below that for 2019 and was the lowest since 2012, according to a new report out from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau.Written premium for the first...
Sep 27 2021 // Gas utility Southern California Gas (SoCalGas), a unit of Sempra Energy, said on Monday it has reached agreements that are expected to resolve substantially all civil litigation related to a 2015 natural gas storage...
Sep 27 2021 // The J. Morey Company Inc. Insurance Agents & Brokers has merged with Alliance 360° Insurance Solutions, based in Cypress, Calif.Terms of the deal, which is effective June 1, were not disclosed. The two companies will...