California officials are expected to vote on a proposal to increase storage capacity at the site of the nation’s largest known methane leak that sickened thousands of families and forced them from their Los Angeles homes in 2015. The proposal …
A Pierce County, Washington man who removed and installed roofs while claiming he was too injured to work has pleaded guilty to stealing workers’ compensation benefits. Patrick Dean Farthing, 64, pleaded guilty recently to third-degree theft, a gross misdemeanor. The …
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed lawsuits by 14 businesses seeking insurance coverage from Travelers Insurance for business losses stemming from COVID-19 and the related government shutdown orders. The federal appeals court affirmed the denial of the claims …
Risk Strategies acquired Benefit Design Group LLC in Oregon. The purchase of BDG adds to Risk Strategies’ presence in the Pacific Northwest. It builds upon the firm’s previous acquisition of the Fournier Group, a commercial and personal lines retail insurance …
Denver will pay $4.7 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged that protesters were unjustly targeted for violating the city`s curfew during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd in 2020. City councilors unanimously agreed to the deal …
LP Insurance Services LLC acquired Wasserman & Associates in Northern California. Wasserman & Associates joins the LP Insurance Services Gold River/Sacramento office. Wasserman & Associates has been serving the Sacramento, Calif. community since its inception in 1981, when it was …
Hawaii’s electric utility acknowledged its power lines started a wildfire on Maui but faulted county firefighters for declaring the blaze contained and leaving the scene, only to have a second wildfire break out nearby and become the deadliest in the …
The California Labor Commissioner’s Office cited farm labor contractor M.G. Luna, Inc. of Parlier and growers Madera Persimmon Growers Inc. of Madera and Willems Farms Inc. of Kingsburg $1,926,531, for wage theft affecting 356 workers who harvested persimmons and blueberries. …
While wildfire search and rescue efforts continued in Maui, a group of CoreLogic experts gathered online last week to discuss the island’s road to recovery through an insurance lens. Panelists analyzed the disaster’s uncertain billion-dollar price tag as well as …
A jury awarded $3.75 million in damages this week to a protester shot twice with hard-foam projectiles fired by Los Angeles police during demonstrations in 2020. Jurors ruled that the LA Police Department was negligent when one or more of …
