Latest California Headlines
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Fire Crews in California Battling Blazes in Extreme Heat
Aug 17 2020 // California firefighters battled destructive wildfires Monday as a lengthening heat wave roasted the state. Thousands of homes were at risk and air quality deteriorated in areas affected by smoke. The National Weather...
Federal Judge Advances Business Interruption Dispute Between Law Firm, Travelers
Aug 17 2020 // A federal judge in California disappointed a law firm suing Travelers Insurance over coronavirus lockdown related business interruption claims in refusing to remove its case to state court and denying its request for a...
Los Angeles County Owes $8M to Man Killed Like George Floyd, Court Rules
Aug 17 2020 // Los Angeles County must pay a full $8 million damage award to the family of a Black man whose death had similarities to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the California Supreme Court ruled. While subduing...
Heatwaves Raising California’s Wildfire Risk
Aug 17 2020 // The current heatwave broiling Californians like no event in decades is also elevating the risk for another potential disaster in the weeks ahead: wildfires. While heat and dry conditions have contributed to the Lake and...
California Wildfires Burning Amid High Risk of Large Blazes
Aug 14 2020 // Dry vegetation fueled three wildfires near Los Angeles amid warnings Friday that the risk of new blazes erupting was high as temperatures spike and humidity levels drop during a statewide heat wave. A huge forest fire that...
Calif. Court Rules Amazon Liable Like Other Retailers for Defective Products
Aug 14 2020 // Amazon.com can be held liable like other traditional retailers for injuries from defective products sold via its sprawling e-commerce marketplace, a California state appeals court ruled on Thursday. The decision overturned...
InterWest Insurance Services Adds Aflac’s Brubaker as Commercial Broker in California
Aug 14 2020 // InterWest Insurance Services has named Melanie Brubaker a commercial insurance broker in the Chico, Calif., office. She has more than 17 years of sales experience. She was previously a benefits advisor with Aflac. She...
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Adds Newfront’s Merrick in California
Aug 14 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Melissa Merrick director of agency integration and onboarding. She is located in the Los Angeles, Calif., office. Merrick will be heading up the agency partners and producer...
Uber and Lyft Lose Bid to Delay California Driver Injunction
Aug 13 2020 // A California judge on Thursday refused to give Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. more time to appeal his decision forcing them to classify drivers in that state as employees, which they have said would necessitate...
Crews Continue to Battle Massive California Fire, Evacuations Ordered
Aug 13 2020 // Crews struggled to reign in a Southern California wildfire that exploded in size in a matter of hours north of Los Angeles, prompting evacuation orders for about 100 homes and other buildings as it tore through forest...
California Labor Commissioner Reaches $2.6M Settlement with Restaurant
Aug 13 2020 // The California Labor Commissioner has reached a $2.6 million settlement with the owners of Kome Japanese Seafood & Buffet in Daly City, securing compensation for 133 workers for unpaid minimum wage, overtime and split...
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Names Phillips to Head New Office in California
Aug 13 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Clint Phillips to head up its new Bakersfield, Calif., office. Phillips has 19 years of experience in the Bakersfield area, where he has specialized in the construction and...
California Workers’ Comp Committee OKs 2021 Pure Premium Filing
Aug 12 2020 // The governing committee of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California voted on Wednesday to authorize the WCIRB to submit a Jan. 1, 2021 advisory pure premium rate filing to the California...
Uber Likely to Temporarily Stop California Operations Due to New Driver Ruling
Aug 12 2020 // Uber Technologies Inc. would be forced to shut down its ride-hailing operations in California if a court ruling that blocks it from classifying its drivers as independent contractors goes into effect, the company said in a...
California Quake Alerts Will Come Standard on Android Phones
Aug 12 2020 // California’s earthquake early warnings will be a standard feature on all Android phones, bypassing the need for users to download the state’s MyShake app in order to receive alerts, the Governor’s Office...
Google Turns Android Phones Into Earthquake Sensors
Aug 12 2020 // Alphabet Inc’s Google’s Android phones on Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with...
California Bill Addressing Property Rates in Wildfire-Prone Areas Awaits Hearing
Aug 11 2020 // The stage has been set for a major battle over a California bill due to be heard in the next few weeks in a key committee that opponents say is a direct attack on insurance consumer protections and proponents say is the...
California Construction Worker Arraigned for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Aug 11 2020 // Meliton Hernandez Martinez Jr., 23, was arraigned today at the Merced County Superior Court in California on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and a misdemeanor count of filing a false police report, after...
COVID-19 a Growing Share of Shrinking Work Comp Claims in 2 States
Aug 11 2020 // COVID-19 has become a large chunk of a dwindling number of workers’ compensation claims in Florida and California, limited data shows. The number of COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims reported in California...
California Coronavirus Cases Hit 554K
Aug 11 2020 // The number of COVID-19 cases in California stood at 554,160 cases Sunday, according to state health department officials. The California Department of Public Health said in a release that there have been 8,826,119 tests...
