Latest California Headlines
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California Father And Son Charged for $12M Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 2 2022 // Edgardo Cabrales Sr., 61, and his son, Edgar Cabrales Jr., 36, both of San Jose, California, were charged with five felony counts each of insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found they...
Ryan Specialty Acquires Centurion in California
Nov 1 2022 // Ryan Specialty acquired certain assets of Centurion Liability Insurance Services LLC in Tustin, California. Centurion is a professional lines wholesale insurance broker and has employees based in Florida and California....
Geico Faces California Class Action Claiming it Overcharged for Car Insurance
Nov 1 2022 // A federal judge on Monday said a lawsuit accusing Geico Corp. of overcharging more than 2 million California policyholders on car insurance early in the COVID-19 pandemic may proceed as a class action. U.S. District Judge...
Southern California School District Ordered to Pay $45M in Abuse Case
Oct 27 2022 // LOS ANGELES (AP) – A jury ordered Southern California’s Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District to pay $45 million to the family of autistic twins who were physically abused and restrained by an aide at their...
California Judge Rules for Bakery Over Same-Sex Wedding Cake
Oct 25 2022 // A California judge has ruled in favor of a bakery owner who refused to make wedding cakes for a same-sex couple because it violated her Christian beliefs. The state Department of Fair Housing and Employment had sued...
Landscapers Find Car Reported Stolen in 1992 — Buried at California Mansion
Oct 24 2022 // Three decades after a car was reported stolen in Northern California, police are digging the missing convertible out of the yard of a $15 million mansion built by a man with a history of arrests for murder, attempted...
Study: Cancer-Causing Gas Leaking from California Stoves, Pipes
Oct 21 2022 // Gas stoves in California homes are leaking cancer-causing benzene, researchers found in a new study published on Thursday, though they say more research is needed to understand how many homes have leaks. In the study,...
People Moves: California Insurance Commissioner Names Members to Statewide Boards
Oct 20 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced several appointments to the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan Advisory Committee, the Curriculum Board and the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating...
Pipeline Operator Agrees to $50M California Spill Settlement
Oct 20 2022 // A pipeline operator has agreed to pay $50 million to thousands of Southern California fishermen, tourism companies and property owners who sued after an offshore oil spill last year near Huntington Beach. A proposed...
$32M to Settle California Lawsuit Over Boy’s Abuse Death
Oct 20 2022 // Los Angeles County agreed to pay $32 million to the family of a 10-year-old boy who died after allegedly being tortured and abused by his mother and her boyfriend. The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a deal in a...
New Indictment in California Dive Boat Tragedy, Lawsuits Ongoing
Oct 19 2022 // A federal grant jury has issued a new indictment against a dive boat captain, alleging that he acted with gross negligence when a 2019 fire aboard his vessel led to the deaths of 34 people off the Southern California...
California Democrats Split on Tax Plan to Drive EV Sales
Oct 19 2022 // A California ballot measure that would tax the rich to help put more electric cars on the road may seem tailor-made to win support from Democrats in a state known for climate leadership, but Proposition 30 has one notable...
Agents Want End to California Auto Insurance Rate Moratorium
Oct 18 2022 // An insurance agent group in California is opining on the impact of California Insurance Commissioner Lara’s recent auto insurance rate decisions on California consumers. They do not like Lara’s auto insurance...
Risk Strategies Acquires Relation Education Solutions in California
Oct 17 2022 // Risk Strategies acquired Relation Education Solutions from Relation Insurance Services. The deal adds key capabilities to Risk Strategies’ National Education Practice. A division of California-based Relation...
School Executives Arrested in California Workers’ Comp Scheme
Oct 17 2022 // An investigation by the California Department of Insurance resulted in the arrest of Rene Carlos Aguero, 71, and Gustavo Adolfo Lopez, 56, for allegedly submitting fraudulent vocational training vouchers for workers’...
California Schools Paying $52M in Suit Over Coach Sex Assaults
Oct 14 2022 // Lawyers for children who were sexually assaulted by a high school wrestling coach have settled a lawsuit with the Los Angeles Unified School District for $52 million, they announced. Attorneys for more than a dozen...
California Emissions Mandate Impacts Transportation
Oct 14 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is doing all they can to reduce emissions. From moving and storage vehicles to buses, freight trucks and even...
California Tree Trimmer Killed After Fall into Wood Chipper
Oct 13 2022 // A tree trimmer was killed this week in the San Francisco Bay Area after he fell into a wood chipper, authorities said. The man, whose name has not been released, was working in the city of Menlo Park shortly before 1 p.m....
Report: More than Half of California COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims in Healthcare
Oct 13 2022 // More than a half of all reported COVID-19 indemnity claims in California continue to arise from workers in the healthcare sector, according to a new report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. The...
$2.5M in Underreported Payroll by California Business Owners
Oct 12 2022 // Karamjit Nijjar, 57, his wife Rajinder Kaur Nijjar, 55, and their daughter Mandip Nijjar, 31, were arraigned today on four felony counts each for their involvement in a workers’ compensation insurance fraud scheme...
