Latest California Headlines
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Judge Wants PG&E to Respond to Report It Knew Faulty Lines Could Cause Wildfires
Jul 10 2019 // PG&E Corp. was ordered by a federal judge overseeing its probation to respond to a Wall Street Journal story claiming the utility knew its power lines could cause wildfires and failed to perform upgrades. PG&E...
Southern California Quakes Raise Interest in West Coast Warning System
Jul 10 2019 // The powerful Mojave Desert earthquakes that rocked California ended a years-long lull in major seismic activity and raised new interest in an early warning system being developed for the West Coast. The ShakeAlert system...
California Wildfire ‘Bailout’ for PG&E, Edison Clears Hurdle
Jul 10 2019 // Utility giants PG&E Corp. and Edison International are one step closer to getting California’s help in covering the costs of increasingly catastrophic wildfires that their equipment keeps igniting. The state...
Oklahoma Again Seeing Decline in Number of Earthquakes
Jul 10 2019 // The number of Oklahoma earthquakes registering a magnitude of 3.0 or greater is on pace to decline for the fourth straight year after state regulators began directing oil and natural gas producers to close some wells and...
Judge Likely to Reduce $80 Million Bayer Roundup Verdict
Jul 10 2019 // A federal judge said he’ll probably reduce — but not throw out entirely — an $80 million jury verdict against Bayer AG in the second case to go to trial over claims the company’s Roundup herbicide...
FTP Inc. Names Glaser to Launch FTP of California LLC
Jul 9 2019 // FTP Inc. has named Lee Glaser to establish FTP of California LLC, based in San Diego. Glaser will focus on developing the producer base and adding additional underwriters and programs for FTP of California. He has a...
Southern California Quakes Push Interest in Coverage
Jul 9 2019 // Visits to the California Earthquake Authority website reportedly increased by nearly 10 times normal following the largest earthquakes to hit Southern California in 20 years. The quakes over 4th of July holiday weekend...
Earthquakes Alert Californians to Be Ready for ‘Big One’
Jul 9 2019 // Shaken residents are cleaning up from two of the biggest earthquakes to rattle California in decades as scientists warn that both should serve as a wake-up call to be ready when the long-dreaded “Big One”...
Research Shows Suburban Population Near Natural Gas Storage in 6 States
Jul 9 2019 // About 65% of active natural gas storage (UGS) wells in the United States are located in suburban residential areas and not in more sparsely populated commercial, industrial, or even rural areas like many new unconventional...
Roads, Utilities Require Repair After California Quakes
Jul 8 2019 // Officials in two damaged desert communities worked over the weekned to repair roads and restore utilities following the largest earthquake in Southern California in nearly two decades. Ridgecrest and neighboring Trona were...
California’s Governor: Earthquakes Are A ‘Wake-Up Call’
Jul 8 2019 // The two major earthquakes that hit Southern California should alert people across the nation of the need to be prepared for natural disasters, the state’s governor said as officials expressed relief that the damages...
Wildfire Help for PG&E, Edison May Not Be Ready When California Lawmakers Adjourn July 12
Jul 8 2019 // California’s biggest utilities, PG&E Corp., Edison International and Sempra Energy, may not get the help they need to deal with multi-billion dollar wildfire liabilities before lawmakers adjourn July 12 for...
Southern California Begins Assessing Damage From Largest Earthquake in 20 Years
Jul 7 2019 // RIDGECREST, Calif. — Crews in Southern California assessed damage to cracked and burned buildings, broken roads, leaking water and gas lines and other infrastructure Saturday after the largest earthquake the region has...
California Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges in $250K Insurance Fraud Scheme
Jul 3 2019 // A California Department of Insurance, Employment Development Department and U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service investigation that uncovered a complex unemployment insurance fraud scheme has now led to...
HP Enterprise Gender Pay Gap Lawsuit in California Making Headway
Jul 2 2019 // Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. isn’t poised to win a quick escape from a class-action lawsuit accusing it of paying female employees less than their male counterparts. A California state court judge said in a...
Paying Gig Workers Emerges as ‘Getaround’ Tactic to Defeat Employee Lawsuits
Jul 2 2019 // The perennial issue in the gig economy is whether workers should be classified as employees. Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and other companies that rely on contract work have dealt with this question in a number of...
Sale of Applied Underwriters Still Under Review; Cayman Islands Insurer Likely Involved
Jul 1 2019 // It appears that the Berkshire Hathaway workers’ compensation unit Applied Underwriters is being sold in a large acquisition, which likely involves Cayman Islands-based United Insurance Co. A spokesman for the Applied...
Proposed California Wildfire Board Could Operate Partly in Secret
Jul 1 2019 // A closely watched wildfire law proposed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom would exempt a new safety board from some of the state’s government transparency laws. The Wildfire Safety Advisory Board would advise the...
PG&E in California Wants to Securitize Some Profits to Cover Wildfire Costs
Jul 1 2019 // PG&E Corp. is lobbying for legislation that would allow the bankrupt California utility giant to securitize some of its profits to pay for past wildfire liabilities, people familiar with the matter said. PG&E was...
Anxiety, Policy Limits Rising Ahead of California’s Sweeping Data Privacy Law
Jul 1 2019 // Robert L. Wallan’s clients are keeping him quite busy as they fret about the implementation next year of the nation’s most far-reaching data privacy law, which gives California consumers more control over their...
