Latest California Headlines
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New Workers’ Comp Program for California’s Cannabis Industry
Aug 30 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced a new workers’ compensation insurance program for California’s cannabis industry. The program was created by Atlas General Insurance Services to...
School District in California Settles Sex Abuse Cases for $15M
Aug 30 2018 // A Southern California school district agreed to pay more than $15 million to settle lawsuits by eight former students who say they were sexually abused by teachers and staff members, attorneys announced this week. The...
FDA Says Coffee Doesn’t Deserve California’s Cancer Risk Warning
Aug 30 2018 // The top U.S. regulator of food and health products endorsed a plan by California officials to exempt coffee from a state law that would have made Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts and other coffee shops add a cancer warning...
Atlas General Insurance Services Launches Workers’ Compensation Program for the Cannabis Industry
Aug 30 2018 // San Diego, CA, August 30, 2018– Leading national program administrator, Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, announced today its new workers’ compensation program for the cannabis industry in California. This...
California Legislature Passes Bill Aimed Collecting Data and Helping Wildfire Victims
Aug 29 2018 // The California Legislature has passed Senate Bill 824, a bill aimed at provided information to the California Department of Insurance related to fire risk information on the residential property policies issued by...
Cybercube in California Adds Swiss Re’s Weber to Board
Aug 29 2018 // CyberCube has added Matthias Weber to its board of directors. Weber was previously group chief underwriting officer and member of the group executive committee at Swiss Re. San Francisco, Calif.-based CyberCube is a...
Last Year’s Wine Country Fires in California Leave Homeowners Struggling
Aug 29 2018 // Construction crews have already put up the frame on Cheri Sharp’s new house, but she still questions whether rebuilding was the right choice after California’s most destructive wildfire took her old home in...
Wildfire Insurance Bill Signed by California Governor
Aug 28 2018 // California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed into law a bill that is intended to combat what are believed underinsurance issues revealed by 2017 wildfires. AB 1797 by Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-Marin County, is expected to...
Tesla Driver in California Blames Autopilot for Firetruck Crash, Arrested for DUI
Aug 28 2018 // Authorities say a Tesla driver, who said he thought his car was in Autopilot mode, crashed into the back of a firetruck in San Jose. The California Highway Patrol says the Tesla rear-ended a fire engine that was stopped...
At-Bay in California Names Sadoff of Hiscox Head of Insurance
Aug 28 2018 // Mountain View, Calif.-based At-Bay announced that Brett Sadoff will join the company as head of insurance. Sadoff will be responsible for design and deployment of At-Bay’s insurance program, field operations, and...
Report Shows California Wildfires, Climate Change Altering Insurance Landscape
Aug 27 2018 // Insurers may be non-renewing more in wildfire-prone areas of California, sending an increasing number of people to the residual market or to surplus lines insurers. A report released on Monday shows that market shares of...
California’s Plan to Help Utilities Deal With Fire Costs
Aug 27 2018 // California lawmakers outlined a proposal to help PG&E Corp. and other utilities cope with billions of dollars of potential damages from deadly wildfires that ravaged the state last year. The plan, part of a broad...
California’s 1st Cannabis Insurer Expands Coverage
Aug 27 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones approved a filing from Golden Bear Insurance Co. amending its California Cannabis program product to lower rates, expand coverage options, and expand the classes of business...
China’s Giant Ping An Insurance Sues U.S. Broker Over Use of Name
Aug 24 2018 // China’s giant Ping An Insurance Group is suing a California-based wholesale brokerage over its use of the name Ping An. The Chinese financial services firm is demanding that Ping An Insurance Center...
Big Insurers Still Taking a Pass on Marijuana Profits
Aug 24 2018 // Marijuana is already a multibillion-dollar business in the U.S. that’s drawing attention from some lawmakers eager for tax revenue and investors looking for profits. So far, however, some of the biggest insurers are...
California High Court: Workers’ Comp Law Provides Exclusive Remedy in Utilization Review Case
Aug 23 2018 // The California Supreme Court issued an opinion today that utilization review physicians cannot be sued for malpractice, upholding established law that the workers’ comp system provides injured employees an exclusive...
California Attorney General Expects State to Play Role in Opioid Deal
Aug 23 2018 // California’s attorney general signaled that he expected to play a major role in settling a nationwide legal fight over the opioid crisis even though the state hasn’t been as hard-hit as others. Drugmakers and...
Google Accused of Illegally Tracking, Violating Privacy of Smartphone Users
Aug 22 2018 // Google has been accused in a lawsuit of illegally tracking the movements of millions of iPhone and Android phone users even when they use a privacy setting to prevent it. According to a complaint filed late Friday, Google...
Farmers in California Names Wilson Chief Information Officer
Aug 21 2018 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Farmers Insurance has named Paul Wilson the new chief information officer. Wilson will serve as a member of the insurer group’s senior leadership team and oversee the development and...
California Commissioner OKs State’s First Insurtech Title Insurer
Aug 21 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved a license for States Title, the first insurtech title insurer licensed and domiciled in California. States Title Insurance Company of California will use...
