All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 5 2025 // The Travelers Cos. said first-quarter 2025 fell 65% on an underwriting loss of $305 million.Travelers posted first-quarter net income of about $395 million compared to about $1.1 billion during Q1 2024. The underwriting...
May 5 2025 // Gov. Gavin Newsom signed new legislation on Monday that will provide more than $170 million in state funding to help prevent wildfires while signing an order aimed at speeding up the work by easing environmental...
May 2 2025 // California’s Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against a national sanitation company for allegedly using “no-poach” agreements.California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the lawsuit this week...
May 1 2025 // Republicans moved a step closer Thursday to repealing a federal waiver allowing California to ban gasoline-powered cars by 2035, a policy that had drawn opposition from automakers, fuel producers and President Donald Trump...
May 1 2025 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California submitted a September 1, 2025 pure premium rate filing, proposing advisory pure premium rates on average 11.2% above the average approved September 1,...
Apr 30 2025 // A California Assembly committee advanced a bill designed to deal with the state’s wildfire and insurance crises.The California Safe Homes Act, Assembly Bill 888, passed out of the Assembly Insurance Committee on a...
Apr 29 2025 // California regulators have released a new proposal to allow the testing of self-driving heavy duty trucks on public roads.The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles announced proposed regulations last week to allow the...
Apr 25 2025 // Net income at The Hartford decreased 16% to $630 million in the first quarter 2025, driven by losses from the California wildfires.Property/casualty catastrophe losses for Q1 2025 were $467 million pretax—$325 million,...
Apr 25 2025 // The number of qualified medical evaluators in California’s workers’ compensation system has increased since 2019, but the demand for their services has overtaken this growth, a new analysis shows.Between 2019...
Apr 24 2025 // Valenzuela Joins SCM as Vice President and Bond ManagerSullivanCurtisMonroe Insurance Services named Adriana Valenzuela vice president and bond manager. Before joining SCM, Valenzuela managed the surety department for...
Apr 24 2025 // Steel prices have been anything but steady in recent years. With renewed discussions around tariffs and trade restrictions, another wave of volatility may be on the horizon.While much attention is paid to how rising...
Apr 24 2025 // The California New Car Dealers Association filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen and its affiliate, Scout Motors, for allegedly violating California’s franchise laws.The CNCDA lawsuit, filed in in San Diego County...
Apr 23 2025 // Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles allege major home insurance companies have colluded to limit coverage in California communities at high risk for wildfires and force homeowners onto the state’s last-resort insurance...
Apr 23 2025 // New vehicle registrations in California rose 8.3% in the first quarter of 2025 compared with the same period a year earlier, putting the state above a nationwide 4.6% increase in a buying surge that may have been driven by...
Apr 23 2025 // California lawmakers are once again turning their attention to consumer privacy—this time with a laser focus on the insurance sector.At a moment when insurance companies are already navigating a minefield of data privacy...
Apr 22 2025 // Relation Insurance Services acquired the assets of True-Course Aviation Services Inc. in Camarillo, California. Aejandro Galioto, owner of True-Course, will continue to lead the firm and spearhead the expansion of...
Apr 21 2025 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s governing committee on Wednesday voted to authorize the WCIRB to submit a September 1, 2025 Pure premium rate filing on average 11.2% percent...
Apr 21 2025 // Tesla settled a racial discrimination lawsuit by a Black female employee who claimed a manager at its Fremont, California, plant sometimes greeted workers by saying “welcome to the plantation” or “welcome...
Apr 21 2025 // Navion insurance Associates Inc. acquired the property/casualty book of business from Instasure in California. Instasure is an insurance agency that specializes in serving the commercial insurance needs of clients. Navion...
Apr 21 2025 // PART TWO OF A TWO-PART SERIESIn this second article in a two-part series, Journalist Russ Banham endeavors to better understand the factors behind the devastating fires in Los Angeles County and the roles that public...