The most viewed headlines from our California Topic Page over the last 30 days.
Apr 16 2025 // A consumer advocacy group has sued the California Department of Insurance and Commissioner Ricardo Lara to block hundreds of millions of dollars in surcharges that could soon appear on California homeowners’...
Apr 16 2025 // The Travelers Cos. said first quarter 2024 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 the first quarter of 2024....
Apr 17 2025 // Tesla Inc. is no longer selling the majority of new electric cars registered in California, the state that accounts for almost a third of all zero-emission vehicle purchases in the US.The company’s share of EV sales...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
May 12 2025 // A Tesla driver charged with attacking motorists’ vehicles with a pipe in the Los Angeles area has been arrested again for allegedly assaulting two women during a road rage incident in Honolulu.The recent arrest comes...
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 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...
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,...
May 5 2025 // Idaho State Police said the driver of the tour van involved in a deadly collision with a pickup truck was licensed in California and the company that organized the trip was Ctour Holiday LLC, a large tour operator that...
Apr 16 2025 // California Governor Gavin Newsom sued to halt Donald Trump’s tariffs, setting up a high-stakes legal challenge to the president’s landmark effort to overhaul global trade.The state is challenging Trump’s...
Apr 14 2025 // Eric M. Hansen, senior vice president – underwriting at Preferred Employers, has been re-elected as chair of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute board of directors for 2025. Hansen was first elected to...
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...
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 17 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...
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...
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...