Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Train Carrying Iron Ore Derailed in California’s Mojave Desert
Apr 4 2023 // A freight train carrying iron ore derailed in a remote area of the Mojave Desert but there were no injuries, authorities said. The San Bernardino County Fire Protection District said in a tweet that “numerous”...
EPA Approves California Rules Phasing out Diesel Trucks
Apr 4 2023 // The Biden administration cleared the way for California’s plan to phase out a wide range of diesel-powered trucks, part of the state’s efforts to drastically cut planet-warming emissions and improve air quality...
California Jury Awards $46M to Paralyzed Jiu-Jitsu Student
Mar 31 2023 // A San Diego jury has awarded more than $46 million to a man who suffered a catastrophic spinal injury during a beginner jiu-jitsu class five years ago, attorneys said. Jack Greener was enrolled at Del Mar Jiu-Jitsu Club in...
California County Supervisor Hit With Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Mar 31 2023 // A lawsuit by a former transit agency employee accuses San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher of sexual harassment and sexual assault. The suit comes days after Fletcher ended his state Senate campaign to seek...
California’s Office of Administrative Law OKs Privacy Regulations
Mar 31 2023 // The California Privacy Protection Agency finalized its first substantive rulemaking package to further implement the California Consumer Privacy Act, which was approved by the California Office of Administrative Law. The...
California Commissioner and FAIR Plan Agree to up Commercial Coverage to $20M
Mar 30 2023 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and the California FAIR Plan Association agreed to more than double its existing commercial coverage limits to $20 million for businesses unable to find coverage in the normal...
Apex Risk & Insurance Services Launches in California
Mar 30 2023 // Apex Risk & Insurance Services launched in the San Diego, California area. CEO Peter Katkov, a seasoned insurance professional with more 15 years in the industry, founded Apex Risk & Insurance. Apex specializes in...
People Moves: California Workers’ Comp Institute Elects 2023 Board
Mar 30 2023 // Sharon Thaler, National Director of Workers’ Compensation Field Underwriting Operations at AF Group/CompWest, was reelected as chair of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute board of directors for...
$1.5M for California Homeowners Overcharged Under Wildfire Risk Score
Mar 29 2023 // Kemper Independence Insurance Co. has issued more than $1.5 million in refunds to thousands of California homeowners after the California Department of Insurance found the carrier overcharged policyholders for wildfire...
YouTube Videos of Intentional Collisions Led to Arrests of California Couple
Mar 27 2023 // A California couple was arrested on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud over allegedly staged collisions that were posted on YouTube. Christopher Phelps, 40, of Yucaipa, and his wife, Kimberly Phelps, 40, were...
California May Punish Oil Companies for High Gas Prices
Mar 24 2023 // A first-in-the-nation bill to punish oil companies for profiting from price spikes at the pump breezed through the California Senate on Thursday at the urging of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, the first major vote in an...
California Tow Truck Driver Arraigned on 54 Counts of Insurance Fraud, Assault
Mar 24 2023 // Eliu Canales, 43, was arraigned this week on 54 felony counts of insurance fraud, assault with a deadly weapon and reckless driving after a joint investigation by the California Department of Insurance and San Joaquin...
First Cap Launches Admitted Homeowners Program for California
Mar 24 2023 // First Cap Property Insurance Solutions has launched a new admitted homeowners program for California. The program includes Coverage A Limits up to: $1.5 million for HO3 $1 million for DP3 $300,000 for HO6 $250,000 for HO4...
AccuWeather: California Storms Added $6-8B in Damage and Economic Loss
Mar 23 2023 // AccuWeather issued preliminarily estimates on Thursday showing the total damage and economic loss from the series of recent intense storms to hit California to be an additional $6 billion to $8 billion. The recent storms...
Report: Nearly 3,000 Buildings Affected by California Floods
Mar 22 2023 // An analysis released on Wednesday shows 2,933 properties were impacted by flooding across California, with an average inundation depth at building level of just over 1 foot. ICEYE’s Flood Insights, a data utility for...
California City Paying $750K in Swastika Painting Case
Mar 22 2023 // The Southern California city of Torrance has paid a man $750,000 after two police officers were accused of spray-painting a swastika inside his car three years ago. The investigation into that incident led to the discovery...
11 Injured in Southern California Apartment Complex Fire
Mar 21 2023 // At least 11 people were injured when a fire erupted in a large Los Angeles apartment complex, authorities said. Five of the approximately 200 units in the four-story building were burned, the Fire Department said in a...
People Moves: Surplus Line Association of California Promotes Trumbly, Adds Mayet
Mar 21 2023 // The Surplus Line Association of California, headquartered in San Ramon, California, promoted Barbara Trumbly to senior vice president and has hired Yusuf Mayet as the organization’s vice president for...
4 Killed in Wrong-Way Crash on Southern California Freeway
Mar 20 2023 // Four people were killed early Sunday in a wrong-way collision involving several vehicles on a freeway east of Los Angeles, authorities said. The crash occurred around 2:30 a.m. in southbound lanes of State Route 71 in...
Cannasure Quickly Moving New and Renewal Business from Topa in California
Mar 20 2023 // It appears one of the nation’s better known cannabis insurance specialists is having to do some scrambling after AM Best announced it was downgrading the credit ratings of Topa Insurance Co. in Calabasas, California,...
