Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Awards $21.7M to Boost Climate Resilience Across the State
Dec 26 2023 // A new Regional Resilience Grant Program aims to protect California communities from climate impacts like wildfire, drought, sea level rise and extreme heat. State leaders have unveiled a $21.7 million funding initiative in...
California Commissioner Warns Insurers About Auto Insurance Consumer Complaints
Dec 22 2023 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued an official notice to insurers regarding consumers who have been reporting issues obtaining auto insurance coverage. The California Department of Insurance continues to...
Study Reviewed Most Common Private Civil Cases in California
Dec 22 2023 // A new analysis of court cases in California over a year showed civil rights cases and personal injury cases were the most common civil cases in the state. Of the 25,636 civil cases in California for the 12-month period...
California Workers’ Comp Report Shows Written Premium Nearing Pre-Pandemic Levels
Dec 21 2023 // A new report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California shows written premium in 2022 was 14% above the previous year. The WCIRB’s Quarterly Experience Report is an update on...
Drought-Prone California Oks New Rules for Turning Wastewater into Drinking Water
Dec 21 2023 // When a toilet is flushed in California, the water can end up in a lot of places – the ice in a skating rink, the manufactured snow on ski slopes, in pipes providing irrigation for farmland. And – coming soon – in...
Tesla Moves to Pause EEOC Lawsuit Alleging Race Bias at Factory
Dec 20 2023 // Tesla Inc has asked a U.S. judge to pause a federal agency’s lawsuit accusing the electric carmaker of severe harassment of Black workers at its California assembly plant, saying two similar cases should play out...
WCRI: Consolidation of Health Care Leads to Higher Costs, Longer Disability Duration
Dec 19 2023 // Consolidation of health care services into large corporations that own hospitals, clinics and physician practices may hold the promise of more efficient and better-integrated care, but hasn’t led to better outcomes...
Tesla Driver Paying $23K for 2019 California Crash
Dec 19 2023 // A Tesla driver will pay more than $23,000 in restitution for the deaths of two people during a 2019 car crash in a Los Angeles suburb, a decision announced the same day that the automaker recalled nearly all vehicles sold...
Activision Blizzard to Pay $54M to Settle California Workplace Claims
Dec 18 2023 // Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay about $54 million to settle discrimination claims brought by California’s civil rights agency on behalf of women employed by the video game maker. The settlement, which is...
Mission Accomplished: Allstate Announces Calif., NY, NJ Rate Approvals
Dec 18 2023 // The departments of insurance in California, New York and New Jersey approved double-digit auto rate increases for Allstate in the three states that the carrier considered exiting in the absence of approvals, the...
Cannabis Insurance Specialists See Optimism in 2024 Data, Planning for Growth and More Capacity
Dec 15 2023 // From a broad view, data from the cannabis industry fails to paint an informative picture of what lies ahead for the business in 2024 or what the year holds for insurance professionals specializing in servicing the...
Tesla Autopilot Recall Threatens Its Defense in Lawsuits Over Crashes
Dec 15 2023 // Tesla Inc.’s biggest vehicle recall ever threatens to hurt the company’s defense in several high-profile lawsuits it faces over crashes linked to Autopilot. The automaker’s recall of 2 million cars comes...
People Moves: Woodruff Sawyer in California Names Parsons National Private Equity & Venture Capital Group Leader
Dec 15 2023 // Woodruff Sawyer named Luke Parsons the firm’s national private equity and venture capital practice group leader. Parsons was previously senior vice president of Woodruff Sawyer’s private equity and due...
California Workers’ Comp Public Self-Insured Claim Volume, Total Paid and Incurred Losses Fall
Dec 14 2023 // Initial data on fiscal year 2022/23 public self-insured claims experience in the California workers’ compensation system show that public self-insured’s total claim volume, spurred by a sharp drop in indemnity...
Football Player Araiza Dropped From California Rape Lawsuit
Dec 14 2023 // Former Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza is being dropped from a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleged she was raped by San Diego State University football players in 2021, it was announced. The woman agreed to dismiss...
California Labor Commissioner Fines Contractor $1.1M for 74 Workers
Dec 14 2023 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office collected $1.1 million in wages and penalties resulting from a prevailing wage assessment against general contractor Stronghold Engineering and its subcontractor, Perry...
Ex-First Republic Engineer in California Gets Prison for Cloud Hack
Dec 12 2023 // A former First Republic Bank cloud engineer in San Francisco was sentenced to two years in prison for vandalizing the company’s computer network after he was fired in 2020. Miklos Daniel Brody logged into the...
California Faces Record $68B Budget Deficit, Legislative Analyst Says
Dec 12 2023 // California is facing a record $68 billion budget deficit, state officials announced, forcing hard choices for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in his final term as he works to build his national profile. The nation`s most...
Regulatory Battles In Personal Lines Ahead; Allstate May Drop Customers
Dec 8 2023 // Analysts from Standard & Poor’s predicted this week that while personal auto results are starting to stabilize, the continued push for rate in 2024 will set the stage for more faceoffs between regulators and...
California Labor Commissioner’s Office Reaches $5.5M Wage Theft Settlement
Dec 7 2023 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office reached a $5.5 million settlement against Adat Shalom Board and Care Inc. to compensate 148 workers who worked at the employer’s six adult care facilities in Los...
