Latest California Headlines
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California Workers’ Comp Committee Votes for 2.7% Higher Pure Premium Filing
Apr 21 2021 // The governing committee of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has voted to authorize the WCIRB to submit a Sept. 1, 2021 pure premium rate filing to the California Insurance Commissioner...
California Transit Agency Settles Death Lawsuit for $5.5M
Apr 21 2021 // San Diego County’s transportation agency has apologized and agreed to pay $5.5 million to the mother of a mentally ill man who died after a security officer kept a knee on his neck for several minutes. It was...
California Legislature Oks Bill Requiring Hospitality Businesses to Rehire Displaced Workers
Apr 20 2021 // Now that Gov. Gavin Newsom is letting more businesses reopen as coronavirus cases decline, the California Legislature on has passed a bill requiring some hotels, stadiums other hospitality companies to offer laid-off...
California Welder Arraigned on Felony Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Apr 19 2021 // Ahmad Zaki Noori, 41, of Sacramento, Calif., was arraigned on two felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud after allegedly misrepresenting symptoms following a work-related injury in order to receive...
Possible Water Crisis for Ag Operations on Oregon-California Border
Apr 19 2021 // Hundreds of farmers who rely on a massive irrigation project that spans the Oregon-California border learned Wednesday they will get a tiny fraction of the water they need amid the worst drought in decades, as federal...
Wright National, Zurich Expand Flood Coverage into California
Apr 19 2021 // Wright National Flood Insurance Services LLC and Zurich Insurance are now offering Zurich’s Residential Private Flood Insurance in California. The stand-alone product has previously been launched in Florida, New...
Industry Watchers Weigh-in on ‘Concerning’ California Workers’ Comp Bills
Apr 19 2021 // A handful of workers’ compensation bills make their way through state Legislature every year that catch the attention of those watching the space — for better or worse. A few bills this year have a pair of...
California Siblings Arraigned in $1.4M Workers’ Comp Scheme
Apr 16 2021 // California farm labor company owners and siblings Elias Perez, 40, of Greenfield, and Alejandra Perez, 37, of Soledad, were arraigned on over 20 felony counts of insurance and tax fraud after allegedly underreporting...
Institute Analyzes Impact of California Medical Provider Network Option for Workers
Apr 16 2021 // Legislation intended to increase injured California workers’ access to medical care by requiring the state to create a medical provider network as an alternative to private networks that render 90% of California...
California Legislature Votes Down Fracking Ban
Apr 16 2021 // California lawmakers rejected a bill that would have banned fracking in the state, succumbing to pressure from the powerful oil and gas industry and their labor union allies who warned the bill would have cost good-paying...
California Toughens PG&E Wildfire Safety Oversight
Apr 16 2021 // California officials on Thursday voted to toughen oversight of Pacific Gas & Electric, saying the utility had largely failed to perform required tree-trimming work near power lines in areas with the highest risk of...
California Targets Urgent Projects as Wildfire Season Looms
Apr 15 2021 // California is in such an urgent race with another devastating wildfire season that officials began soliciting local project ideas even before they had money to pay for them. It faces such a threat of drought that the...
People Moves: Sierra Specialty Adds Dith in California; McHugh Joins Lockton in Seattle; Mathis to CWCI
Apr 15 2021 // Sierra Specialty Sierra Specialty, program specialist, managing general agency and wholesale insurance brokerage, has appointed Vicky Dith as a broker and underwriter specializing in construction insurance. Dith is located...
California Fire Victim Trust Has Received 250K Claims So Far
Apr 14 2021 // The Fire Victim Trust, established to pay California wildfire victims on July 1, 2020, has received 40,000 claims questionnaires representing more than 70,000 claimants and roughly 250,000 individual claims, according to...
California Business Owner Arraigned in $1M Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Apr 14 2021 // Marion Piggee, Jr., 68, of Los Angeles, Calif., was arraigned on seven counts of insurance fraud after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance revealed he was allegedly underreporting employee payroll by...
Commissioner Makes Appointments to California Workers’ Governing Committee
Apr 14 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara today announced two reappointments to the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Governing Committee. Lara appointed Mitch Steiger and Diana...
California Plans $536M for Wildfire Mitigation Before Fire Season
Apr 14 2021 // California will authorize $536 million for wildfire mitigation and forest management projects before the worst of the fire season strikes later this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders said. That more than...
La Niña Is Fading But California, Gulf Coast Still Face Risks
Apr 12 2021 // La Niña, the cooling of the equatorial Pacific that shifts weather patterns the world over, is fading away. But California may still be prone to dryness, and the U.S. Gulf Coast faces the risk of another busy hurricane...
Unlicensed California Agent Sentenced After Stealing $450K in Premiums
Apr 12 2021 // Ai Ling Lee, 61, an unlicensed insurance agent living Hacienda Heights, was convicted of nine felony counts of grand theft after reportedly stealing nearly half-a-million dollars of her small business clients’...
California County Agrees to Pay $3.5M in 2018 Jail Death Case
Apr 12 2021 // San Diego County will pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a mentally ill man who died after deputies tried to forcefully remove him from a jail holding cell, a newspaper reported. The...
