Latest California Headlines
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New, Old Wildfires Rage Amid California Heat Wave
Jul 9 2018 // Firefighters toiled in stifling heat Saturday on the lines of destructive wildfires across the U.S. West, making progress against some blazes while struggling to tame others that have forced evacuations of hundreds of...
California OSHA Opens Third Probe into Tesla Factory
Jul 6 2018 // A California agency for occupational safety said on Thursday it opened a third investigation at Tesla Inc.’s factory in Fremont, California, following a complaint. The state’s Occupational Safety and Health...
California Legislative Special Committee to Consider Wildfire Liability
Jul 6 2018 // California lawmakers may change the standard for determining whether utilities are liable for wildfire damage following the worst wildfire season in state history. Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders said on July 2...
EPIC Names SullivanCurtisMonroe’s Kitei Principal in Southern California
Jul 5 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has named Eric Kitei a principal in its operations in Southern California. Kitei will focus on the needs of auto dealers and others in the automotive industry, and be based in...
Special Interests Make Smart Use of California’s Ballot
Jul 5 2018 // As the deadline approached last week for measures to qualify California’s November ballot, wealthy special interests pushed lawmakers to cut deals to avoid costly ballot measure campaigns in the latest display of...
California’s Data Privacy Law a Concern, Opportunity for Insurance Industry
Jul 3 2018 // California is on track to have what will be the nation’s most far-reaching law to give consumers more control over their personal data. The new law may be both a big concern, as well as a new and important...
Wildfire Destroys 100-Plus Colorado Homes, Other Blazes Burning in West
Jul 3 2018 // More than 100 homes in the Colorado mountains were destroyed by a growing wildfire, while hundreds of others across the parched U.S. West remained under evacuations Tuesday. A fire near Fort Garland, roughly 200 miles...
Winds Fan Fast-Moving Northern California Wildfire
Jul 3 2018 // A massive wildfire in rural Northern California has grown in size and has forced evacuations. The fast-moving fire that started over the weekend northwest of Sacramento grew dramatically to about 150 square miles by Monday...
Insurers Question California Commissioner’s Authority to Make Comp Writers Report Federal Tax Savings
Jul 2 2018 // The insurance industry is wondering whether a new requirement from California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones that workers’ compensation insurers report federal income tax savings is legal. Jones wants insurers...
California Restaurant Settles Pregnancy Discrimination Suit for $82K
Jul 2 2018 // LA Louisanne Inc., a Los Angeles restaurant and jazz night club, will pay $82,500 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the...
California Commissioner Orders Workers’ Comp Insurers to Report Federal Income Tax Savings
Jul 2 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced today issued an order that every insurer licensed to write workers’ compensation in the state must report their federal income tax savings annually through a...
Plea Deal Reached in California Warehouse Fire
Jul 2 2018 // Lawyers that a tentative plea deal has been reached for two defendants in connection with a Northern California warehouse fire that killed three dozen partygoers at an unlicensed concert in 2016. Attorneys for Derick...
Far-Reaching Data Privacy Bill Approved in California
Jul 2 2018 // California will soon have what experts call the nation’s most far-reaching law to give consumers more control over their personal data under a bill the governor has signed. The law will compel companies to tell...
Sea Level Rise Puts $117.5B at Risk from Chronic Flooding
Jul 2 2018 // Those interested in risk management are starting to take climate change a bit more seriously. The evidence is anecdotal, but for that proof one can just ask Phil Renaud, executive director for the Risk Institute at Ohio...
Report: California Self-Insured Workers’ Comp Claims Rose Only Slightly Last Year
Jul 2 2018 // California public self-insured workers’ compensation claims from fiscal year 2016-2017 rose less than 0.4 percent compared to the corresponding data from the prior year despite a 2.9 percent increase in covered...
California Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Exploring Blockchain, Behavioral Science
Jul 2 2018 // One wouldn’t normally associate blockchain with workers’ compensation, two completely different industries that seem worlds apart. But as it turns out, the technology is of value to at least one very important...
Brightway Insurance Opens Office in California
Jun 29 2018 // Brightway Insurance has opened an office in Redwood City, Calif. The firm this week also opened its first office in Kansas, as well as in Texas. Manny Aguilar is opening Brightway, The Aguilar Agency in Redwood City. Other...
$47.5M Settlement for Boy Who Lost Leg During California Camping Trip
Jun 29 2018 // A boy who lost his leg and part of his pelvis after a tree fell on his tent during a camping trip at a public park will receive $47.5 million from a California municipality and utility in a lawsuit settlement, an attorney...
California Commissioner Angry at Insurers for Altering Wildfire Bills
Jun 28 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones is irked that the insurance industry has worked to alter legislation he supports that he says is aimed at strengthening consumer protections for wildfire survivors. Senate Bill...
Jury Awards Woman $31M in California Age Discrimination Lawsuit
Jun 28 2018 // A 58-year-old Southern California woman has been awarded $31 million in an age discrimination case against her former employer. Codie Rael of Ontario sued Washington-based Danaher Corp. and two subsidiaries, claiming that...
