Latest California Headlines
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California Officials Lacked Good Fire Alert Plan, Report Shows
Feb 28 2018 // Officials in a Northern California county were ill-prepared, disorganized and lacked sufficient training when deadly, fast-moving wildfires broke out last October endangering about 100,000 people, according to a report...
Autonomous Car Testing Without Backup Drivers Approved in California
Feb 28 2018 // Driverless cars will be tested in California for the first time without a person behind a steering wheel under new rules that state regulators approved Monday for the fast-developing technology. The regulations are a major...
Sports Play Beats Age as Indicator of New Drivers’ Ability: Study
Feb 28 2018 // Novice male teen drivers are better than new male drivers in their 20s and male and female students who play sports are better new drivers than those who do not participate in organized sports. Video game experience, on...
Navion Acquires Assets of California-Based James LasCola Insurance Services
Feb 27 2018 // Navion Insurance Associates has acquired the assets of Laguna Hills, Calif.-based James LasCola Insurance Services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LasCola’s leadership team will join Navion Insurance...
Burnham Benefits Names Medina Account Executive in California
Feb 27 2018 // Burnham Benefits Insurance Services Inc. has named Mirna Medina an account executive in the Los Angeles, Calif. office. Medina will help accelerate growth and strengthen the delivery of Burnham’s employee benefits...
Tribes Left out of California Marijuana Pondering Growing Their Own
Feb 27 2018 // American Indian tribes that say they have been cut out of California’s legal marijuana market have raised the possibility of going their own way by establishing pot businesses outside the state-regulated system that...
Record Number of Californians Applied for Earthquake Retrofit Grants
Feb 26 2018 // The Earthquake Brace + Bolt program closed its latest registration with more than 7,500 California homeowners applying for 2,000 retrofit grants. The EBB, funded primarily by the California Earthquake Authority, closed...
California Looking for Balancing Act for Harassment Discipline
Feb 26 2018 // California Sen. Tony Mendoza’s resignation this week spared his fellow lawmakers from a difficult decision about appropriate punishment after an investigation found he likely engaged in flirtatious and sexually...
Berkshire’s 14-Year Insurance Win Streak Comes to an End
Feb 26 2018 // Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway’s combination of insurance entities have recorded 14 consecutive years of underwriting profit worth more than $28 billion. The Oracle from Omaha has repeatedly warned his...
Hershey’s in Trademark Battles with California Marijuana Businesses
Feb 23 2018 // Cannabis businesses, beware: The Hershey Co. is on the warpath. Perhaps the most famous confectionery peddler in the world has a well-documented history of actively protecting its trademarks, and the marijuana industry is...
California Law Preventing Actor Ages from Being Posted Struck Down
Feb 22 2018 // A California law that sought to prevent age discrimination in the entertainment industry by blocking a popular Hollywood website from posting the ages of actors was struck down Tuesday as unconstitutional. U.S. District...
CAL Insurance Names Coffey Account Manager in California
Feb 21 2018 // CAL Insurance & Associates Inc. has named Aletha Coffey an account manager on its commercial lines team. Coffey was previously a commercial account executive with GS Insurance Solutions. She was a marketing...
First Surety Bond Program for California Cannabis Industry OK’d
Feb 21 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved the first surety bond program for the cannabis industry in the California. Continental Heritage Insurance Co. is the first insurer in the state to be approved to...
California Marijuana Growers Lagging in Getting Licenses, New Report Shows
Feb 21 2018 // Nearly two months after recreational marijuana became legal in California, less than 1 percent of the state’s known growers have been licensed, according to a report released by a pot industry group. The 38-page...
U.S. Supreme Rules Against Insurer’s Appeal Challenging Profits in Rate Setting
Feb 20 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear Mercury Insurance Co.’s appeal to overturn a February 2017 California Court of Appeal ruling that held Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ 2013 order requiring...
Woodruff-Sawyer in California Names Johnston Vice President of Aviation
Feb 20 2018 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Drew Johnston vice president of aviation. Johnston will develop the strategy and steer the growth of the newly formed aviation practice, which will focus on...
California Construction Workers Injured in Elevator Shaft Fall
Feb 20 2018 // Authorities say four construction workers were hurt, three critically, after plunging 30 feet down an elevator shaft at an unfinished Los Angeles building. The Fire Department says the men were working on a five-story...
Fewest Human Interventions for Waymo’s Autonomous Car Tests in California
Feb 19 2018 // Waymo, the self-driving arm of Alphabet Inc., is out ahead of rivals based on a key measure of autonomous driving performance, according to a report released on in late January by the California Department of Motor...
U.S. Judge Rules ‘Gig Economy’ Driver Is Independent Contractor
Feb 19 2018 // A U.S. judge in San Francisco earlier this month said a former Grubhub Inc. delivery driver was an independent contractor and not the company’s employee in the first case of its kind against a “gig...
Family of Actor Bill Paxton Sues Hospital in California for Wrongful Death
Feb 15 2018 // The family of Bill Paxton has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Los Angeles hospital and the surgeon who performed the actor’s heart surgery shortly before he died. The suit filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical...
