Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Relation Insurance Acquires True-Course Insurance Services in California
Apr 22 2025 // Relation Insurance Services acquired the assets of True-Course Aviation Services Inc. in Camarillo, California. Aejandro Galioto, owner of True-Course, will continue to lead the firm and spearhead the expansion of...
California Workers’ Comp Board OKs Higher Pure Premium Rate Filing
Apr 21 2025 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s governing committee on Wednesday voted to authorize the WCIRB to submit a September 1, 2025 Pure premium rate filing on average 11.2% percent...
Tesla Settles Employee’s California Suit Alleging Pervasive Harassment
Apr 21 2025 // Tesla settled a racial discrimination lawsuit by a Black female employee who claimed a manager at its Fremont, California, plant sometimes greeted workers by saying “welcome to the plantation” or “welcome...
Navion Acquires P/C Business of Instasure in California
Apr 21 2025 // Navion insurance Associates Inc. acquired the property/casualty book of business from Instasure in California. Instasure is an insurance agency that specializes in serving the commercial insurance needs of clients. Navion...
Revisiting California’s Wildfires: A Personal Journey
Apr 21 2025 // PART TWO OF A TWO-PART SERIES In this second article in a two-part series, Journalist Russ Banham endeavors to better understand the factors behind the devastating fires in Los Angeles County and the roles that public...
California Plumbing Contractor Ordered to Pay $1M for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 21 2025 // A plumbing contractor has been ordered to pay $1 million in restitution to the State Compensation Insurance Fund as part of a workers’ comp fraud prosecution. Daniela G. Birdwell, 41, owner of GPS Plumbing, pleaded...
California Sets Aside $170M to Thin Vegetation, Forests to Help Prevent Wildfires
Apr 17 2025 // Gov. Gavin Newsom signed new legislation on Monday that will provide more than $170 million in state funding to help prevent wildfires while signing an order aimed at speeding up the work by easing environmental...
Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California’s Electric Car Market
Apr 17 2025 // Tesla Inc. is no longer selling the majority of new electric cars registered in California, the state that accounts for almost a third of all zero-emission vehicle purchases in the US. The company’s share of EV sales...
Group Sues California Department of Insurance Over FAIR Plan Surcharges
Apr 16 2025 // A consumer advocacy group has sued the California Department of Insurance and Commissioner Ricardo Lara to block hundreds of millions of dollars in surcharges that could soon appear on California homeowners’...
California’s Newsom Sues Trump Over ‘Chaos’ of Tariff Regime
Apr 16 2025 // California Governor Gavin Newsom sued to halt Donald Trump’s tariffs, setting up a high-stakes legal challenge to the president’s landmark effort to overhaul global trade. The state is challenging Trump’s...
Travelers Income Drops 65% on Catastrophe Losses, Primarily California Wildfires
Apr 16 2025 // The Travelers Cos. said first quarter 2024 fell 65% on an underwriting loss of $305 million. Travelers posted first quarter net income of about $395 million compared to about $1.1 billion during the first quarter of 2024....
Southern California Edison Lays Out $925M Plan to Rebuild After LA Wildfires
Apr 15 2025 // Southern California Edison (SCE), a subsidiary of utility Edison International, said on Friday it had submitted an initial plan to rebuild the areas within its service territory that were devastated by the Los Angeles...
Could Utility Gear Set Your Neighborhood on Fire? California Risk Maps Are 8 Years Old
Apr 15 2025 // Weeks after deadly fires swept through Los Angeles County, the state regulator in charge of overseeing utility companies declined a request that would have required California’s largest utilities to update maps...
People Moves: California Workers’ Compensation Institute Elects 2025 Board
Apr 14 2025 // Eric M. Hansen, senior vice president – underwriting at Preferred Employers, has been re-elected as chair of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute board of directors for 2025. Hansen was first elected to...
California’s Effort to Hold Oil Companies Liable for Natural Disasters Stalls
Apr 11 2025 // California lawmakers have blocked a bill to make oil and gas companies liable for damage to homes from natural disasters caused by climate change, warning it could raise gas prices. The bill would have allowed victims of...
California Bill Seeks to Beef up Consumer Privacy Protections for Insurance
Apr 10 2025 // A new bill introduced in California aims to increase transparency and accountability in California’s insurance market by bolstering consumer privacy protections and establishing a privacy rights framework for...
California Wildfires Had Little Impact on Reinsurers’ Risk Appetite During April Renewals
Apr 9 2025 // Property-catastrophe capacity remained adequate to meet demand during the April 1 renewals for US reinsurance buyers, despite the record losses from California’s January wildfires, according to Aon and Gallagher Re...
State Farm’s California Emergency Rate Request Dropped to 17%
Apr 9 2025 // Lawyers for State Farm General, the California Department of Insurance and Consumer Watchdog presented opening arguments in a hearing to determine the fate of State Farm’s request for an emergency homeowners rate...
Report Shows California Workers’ Comp Medical Review Denials Still Rarely Overturned
Apr 9 2025 // The rate of California workers’ compensation medical treatment request denials being overturned was up slightly last year, but they are still a relatively rare occurrence, a new report shows. Denials were overturned...
World Insurance Associates Acquires Royalty Insurance Services in California
Apr 7 2025 // World Insurance Associates LLC has acquired Royalty Insurance Services in Van Nuys, California. Royalty has been providing commercial trucking insurance for over 23 years. World Insurance Associates is a national financial...
