September 16, 2013
To get the driver’s licenses they’ve long sought, immigrants living in California illegally will have to do something many have long resisted: publicly identify themselves. The driver’s license bill that the Legislature passed on its final day requires a distinction …
June 14, 2012
An electric utility said Tuesday that it agreed to pay the city of San Diego, Calif. $27 million to settle claims over 2007 wildfires that devastated wide sections of the city. San Diego Gas & Electric Co.’s payment will reimburse …
March 19, 2012
A judge approved a settlement Friday to give owners of Honda Civic hybrids up to $200 each over claims that the fuel economy of the cars was inflated, casting aside arguments that a motorist’s victory in small claims court entitled …
February 21, 2012
A judge last week granted California and four other states more time to consider objecting to a class-action settlement between Honda Motor Co. and car owners over inflated fuel-efficiency claims about the automaker’s hybrid vehicles. The states’ sudden interest in …
February 16, 2012
A judge on Tuesday granted California and four other states more time to consider objecting to a class-action settlement between Honda Motor Co. and car owners over inflated fuel-efficiency claims about the automaker’s hybrid vehicles. The states’ sudden interest in …
November 16, 2008
Wildfires claimed more lives and homes in San Diego than any other county in California’s devastating firestorms of 2003 and 2007, yet voters in that county rejected a proposition that would have established a parcel tax to help fund a …
November 6, 2008
Wildfires claimed more lives and homes in San Diego than any other county in California’s devastating firestorms of 2003 and 2007, yet voters in that county rejected a proposition that would have established a parcel tax to help fund a …
November 19, 2004
A software maker is urging insurance agencies to stop using a cost-calculator that critics say resulted in inadequate coverage for many people who lost their homes in the Southern California wildfires last fall. Marshall & Swift/Boeckh LLC said its Quick …
July 12, 2004
Don Robinson says his Residence Mutual insurance policy pegged the cost of replacing his San Diego home at $233,000. After Southern California’s wildfires destroyed the 40-year-old biologist’s four-bedroom house last year, a contractor told him it would cost $460,000. Hundreds …