Latest California Headlines
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2 Southern California Firefighters and Pilot Were Killed in Helicopter Collision
Aug 8 2023 // Three people were killed after two firefighting helicopters collided in Southern California while fighting a blaze in Riverside County, emergency officials said. One of the helicopters landed safely. ” Unfortunately,...
Google Fails to End $5B Consumer Privacy Lawsuit
Aug 8 2023 // A U.S. judge rejected Google’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of millions of people by secretly tracking their internet use. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Monday said she...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Wigmore Insurance Agency in California
Aug 8 2023 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Costa Mesa, California-based Wigmore Insurance Agency Inc. Tim Wigmore and his team will remain in their current location under the direction of Scott Firestone, head of...
Takeaways from Our Conversation on Cannabis Operators Custom Fortifying
Aug 8 2023 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Dispensary entrepreneur Adam Fong got tired of having his San Rafael, California operation being broken into. The business suffered five break-ins starting in 2019, with the biggest loss...
2 Killed, 3 Hurt When Pleasure Boat Catches Fire in Southern California Bay
Aug 7 2023 // Two women were killed and another woman and two men were hospitalized with burns after a weekend fire on a pleasure boat in Long Beach, California, authorities said. The blaze was reported around 5:15 p.m. Saturday on a...
Business Moves
Aug 7 2023 // National World Insurance Associates, Schlegel & Schlegel Insurance Brokers, Shield Insurance Services Insurance broker World Insurance Associates has acquired the business of Schlegel & Schlegel Insurance Brokers...
People & Places
Aug 7 2023 // National Frank Romeo joined Axis Capital Holdings Limited to lead the company’s entry into the U.S. marine cargo insurance market. Based in New York, Romeo is responsible for building the program and identifying...
Audit: California State University Campuses Mishandled Sexual Harassment Allegations
Aug 7 2023 // A flawed policy at California State University, the largest higher education system in the country, contributed to the closure of nearly a dozen sexual harassment cases without thorough explanation, according to a state...
Lizzo Pushes Back After Her Former Dancers Claim Harassment in California Suit
Aug 4 2023 // Lizzo said that she`s “not the villain” that three of her former backup dancers falsely accuse her of being in a sexual harassment lawsuit. The civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court claims...
California Firm to Pay $1M for Selling Devices to Thwart Truck Smog Controls
Aug 4 2023 // A California company will pay $1 million for violating federal environmental laws by making and selling devices that defeated smog controls on diesel trucks, prosecutors announced. Sinister Manufacturing Co., Inc. of...
Car App Jerry in California Gets $110M in Funding, Adds Services
Aug 3 2023 // Smart-car app maker Jerry received an additional $110 million in equity and debt financing to add its services designed to enable vehicle owners “manage all things car.” The Palo Alto, California-based company...
Viewpoint: California’s Next Steps on Cat Models, Challenges and Issues in Insurance Rate-Making
Aug 3 2023 // A recently brewing and critical California issue is the conflict between industry’s desire to file catastrophe rating models to inform California property rates and California’s laws allowing a public...
California Lawsuit by Former Dancers Accuses Lizzo of Sexual Harassment, Hostile Work Environment
Aug 2 2023 // Lizzo has been sued by three former dancers who accuse the Grammy winner of sexual harassment and allege the singer and her production company created a hostile work environment. The civil lawsuit filed this Tuesday in Los...
Some Gains Made on 80K Acre Southern California Wildfire
Aug 1 2023 // Containment on an 80,000-plus-acre wildfire in Southern California grew to 23% on Tuesday, as firefighters made some progress against the state’s most massive ongoing blaze. It was listed as being at 0% containment a...
Crews Battling ‘Fire Whirls’ in California’s Mojave Desert
Aug 1 2023 // Crews battled “fire whirls” in California’s Mojave National Preserve as a massive wildfire crossed into Nevada amid dangerously high temperatures and raging winds. The York Fire was mapped at roughly 120...
California Workers’ Comp Independent Medical Review Volume Rose in First Half of 2023
Aug 1 2023 // A review of the Independent Medical Review process used to resolve California workers’ compensation medical disputes shows the number of IMR decision letters rose 4.1% in the first six months of 2023 compared to the...
Three Killed When Small Plane Hits Hangar at California Airport
Jul 31 2023 // A pilot and two passengers were killed Sunday when a single-engine plane crashed into a hangar and burst into flames at a Southern California airport, authorities said. The Beechcraft P35 with three people on board crashed...
Winds Challenge Firefighters Battling Two California Blazes
Jul 31 2023 // A massive wildfire burning out of control in California’s Mojave National Preserve was spreading rapidly amid erratic winds, while firefighters reported progress against another major blaze to the southwest that...
Cigna Health Giant Accused of Improper Violation of California Law
Jul 27 2023 // A federal lawsuit alleges that health insurance giant Cigna used a computer algorithm to automatically reject hundreds of thousands of patient claims without examining them individually as required by California law. The...
Liberty Mutual to Stop Offering Business Owner’s Policy In California As Costs Bite
Jul 27 2023 // Property and casualty insurer Liberty Mutual will stop offering its business owner’s policy (BOP) product in wildfire-prone state California from Oct. 1, in a sign that cost inflation and higher catastrophe losses...
