Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Startup Lemonade Enters California Homeowners, Renters Insurance Markets
May 10 2017 // Insurance startup Lemonade is now selling homeowners and renters insurance in California. California marks the third state of entry for the insurtech that is built on artificial intelligence and behavioral economics. It...
California OKs Lower Rates for State Farm’s Boat, Home Inland Marine Policies
May 9 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved rate reductions for two State Farm inland marine policies that he said will bring millions of dollars in premium savings for tens of thousands of boat owners and...
California Division of Workers’ Compensation Suspends 4 Medical Providers
May 9 2017 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations and the Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended four more medical providers from participating in California’s workers’ compensation...
California Earthquake Authority Creates Online Home Vulnerability Evaluator
May 8 2017 // The California Earthquake Authority has created an online tool to help home inspection specialists evaluate a house’s vulnerability to earthquake damage. The online tool, QuakeGrade, uses information entered by an...
Insurtech Slice Now Offering Homeshare Insurance in California
May 8 2017 // Slice Insurance Technologies, an insurtech company offering on-demand, short-term insurance coverage, is now selling its commercial lines insurance product for homesharing hosts in California. The California Department of...
Partial Settlement for Victims of California Balcony Fall
May 8 2017 // The victims of a balcony collapse in Berkeley, Calif., that killed six college students have reached a settlement with some of the companies they sued in 2015. The settlements are confidential, said lawyers for the...
Kimberly-Clark Sues to Force Spinoff to Pay $350 Million Surgical Garb Damages
May 8 2017 // Kimberly-Clark Corp. sued its spinoff Halyard Health Inc. claiming it wrongfully refused to pick up the entire tab for a $454 million verdict against the companies over the safety of some of their surgical gowns. The...
The Eagles Hit Mexico’s Hotel California with Trademark Lawsuit
May 8 2017 // The Eagles are suing the owners of a Mexican hotel named Hotel California, claiming it’s capitalizing off the band’s hit song of the same name. The band filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit [on May 1]...
Oklahoma Earthquake Risk: What a Difference Year Makes
May 8 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. For nearly the past decade, the growing number of earthquakes in Oklahoma has gained widespread attention. As described in the CoreLogic® Insights Blog Earthquake...
State Farm to Close 11 Offices, Displacing 4,200 Employees, After 2016 $7B Loss
May 4 2017 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., the largest U.S. home and auto insurer, plans to shut 11 U.S. facilities, displacing about 4,200 workers, after a $7 billion annual underwriting loss last year on auto...
California Comp Bureau Testifies on Lower Rates at Pure Premium Hearing
May 4 2017 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau testified at a California Department of Insurance public hearing today regarding the bureau’s July 1 pure premium rate filing, which was submitted to the CDI on...
California’s Sherpa Wildfire Was Accidental, Authorities Say
May 4 2017 // Authorities say a fire that blazed through miles of California coast last summer was sparked by a man trying to douse a burning log. The Santa Barbara County Fire Department said this week that the Sherpa Fire last June...
California Insurer Groups and Insurance Department Battle over Auto Repair Survey Bill
May 3 2017 // A California bill that could affect auto repair costs is making its way through state Legislature, and one group that’s happy about that is the Association of California Insurance Companies. ACIC is one of several...
Weak Safety Standards Caused California Exxon Refinery Blast, Agency Says
May 3 2017 // The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has concluded that a 2015 explosion at a Torrance, Calif., refinery then owned by Exxon Mobil Corp. could have been prevented, the agency concluded in a report issued on...
Partners Specialty’s Waite Goes to Burns & Wilcox as Vice President in California
May 3 2017 // Burns & Wilcox Brokerage has named Susanne M. Waite vice president and senior broker in its San Francisco, Calif. office. Waite has more than 30 years of experience in insurance, with 14 years in wholesale. Waite...
QBE North America Names Blanco Senior Vice President in California
May 3 2017 // QBE North America has named Marcia Blanco as senior vice president an Western region specialty underwriting engagement leader. She is based in San Francisco, Calif. Blanco will report to Jeff Grange, president of specialty...
Hub International Acquires Assets of City Insurance Services in California
May 2 2017 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Buena Park, Calif.-based City Insurance Services its affiliates, Silver City Insurance Services Inc. and MOA Financial Services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brian...
California Wants Insurers to Double up on Rate Filings
May 1 2017 // Health insurers seeking regulatory approval for 2018 individual insurance plans can file two sets of premium rates as a way to deal with market uncertainty created by Republicans’ promise to repeal and replace...
California DWC Posts Interim Report on Workers’ Comp Drug Formulary
May 1 2017 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has posted the second interim status report on its efforts to promulgate regulations for an evidence-based workers’ compensation drug formulary. The...
Apple, Tesla Want California to Toughen Proposed Self-Driving Car Test Rules
May 1 2017 // Apple Inc. urged California to toughen up its proposed policy on testing self-driving cars, a move that would result in more public data that could help Apple catch up to rivals in the self-driving space by giving it a...
