All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 30 2021 // A Camarillo, California, insurance agent was arrested on Aug. 26 and charged with allegedly stealing more than $1 million from clients, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.Steven Franklin...
Aug 27 2021 // A 30-year-old man who appeared nude at 4 months old in 1991 on the cover of Nirvana’s “Nevermind”album is suing the band and others, alleging the image is child pornography they have profited from.The...
Aug 27 2021 // Some 14,000 firefighters facing changing weather conditions battled more than a dozen large wildfires across California, including a growing blaze that was slowly pushing toward the Lake Tahoe resort region.Winds and...
Aug 26 2021 // New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas has retained California legal counsel on behalf of the state and filed for leave to submit an amicus curiae brief in the conservation proceedings over California Insurance Co.CIC...
Aug 26 2021 // IMA Financial Group named H. Garrett Droege IMA director of innovation and strategy.Droege will be based in Denver, Colo. He specializes in evaluating emerging technology risks, and joins IMA in a newly created role,...
Aug 25 2021 // Personal information from students at a California college who requested a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine has been posted online after an apparent data breach.The records from about 130 students at...
Aug 24 2021 // An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.0 shook an agricultural area of southeastern California early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. The quake struck at 7:57 a.m. south of the Salton Sea, about 7...
Aug 24 2021 // More than 13,500 firefighters were working Monday to contain a dozen large California wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to flee to safety.After an extensive review of fire...
Aug 23 2021 // Alliant Insurance Services has acquired Northern California-based ASURA Risk in San Ramon, Calif.Kevin Kilty, principal with ASURA Risk, along with fellow principals Greg Miller and Jon Wheeler, and the entire ASURA team,...
Aug 23 2021 // A judge Friday struck down a California ballot measure that exempted Uber and other app-based ride-hailing and delivery services from a state law requiring drivers to be classified as employees eligible for benefits and...
Aug 23 2021 // Lockton Insurance Brokers LLC named Alex Michon president of its Sacramento, Calif., operations.Michon specializes in managed care and multinational organizations that require complex regulatory compliance. Michon has...
Aug 20 2021 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is offering a 30-day credit extension to policyholders affected by wildfires currently burning in Northern California counties declared states of emergency by Gov.Gavin...
Aug 20 2021 // Formerly licensed insurance agent Robert Stoddard, 66, of San Clemente, Calif., was arrested this week after a California Department of Insurance investigation found he allegedly stole $1.2 million from more than 20...
Aug 20 2021 // Smoke from California’s wildfires choked people on the East Coast. Flames wiped out a Gold Rush-era town. The acreage burned would dwarf the state of Rhode Island.Images of homes engulfed in flames and mountains...
Aug 19 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday issued a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance companies from non-renewing or cancelling residential property insurance policies.The action is intended to aid...
Aug 19 2021 // As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a deepening drought threatens one of the...
Aug 19 2021 // There are over 10,000 firefighters battling unprecedented blazes in California, but that isn’t enough, and the state is having a hard time finding more as flames rage across the western U.S. and Canada.Twelve major...
Aug 18 2021 // A federal judge has thrown out an $87 million lawsuit that a San Francisco school board member filed against the district and her colleagues after they voted to strip her of senior board positions because of tweets that...
Aug 18 2021 // Northern California wildfires that incinerated two mountain communities continued marching through the Sierra Nevada while a utility purposely blacked out as many as 51,000 customers to prevent new blazes.Two weeks after...
Aug 18 2021 // The J. Morey Company Inc. Insurance Agents & Brokers acquired Aihara & Associates Insurance Services Inc. in Los Angeles, Calif.Terms of the deal, which is effective April 1, were not disclosed. Aihara &...