Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Group Behind California’s Data Privacy Law Wants Another One on the Ballot
Sep 25 2019 // The group behind California’s pending data privacy law is working to propose for the upcoming ballot a new law that would give consumers new data rights and place stricter obligations on companies. The group has...
Brooks Joins Armor Insurance Services in California
Sep 25 2019 // Steve M. Brooks has joined Armor Insurance Services. Brooks was formerly president of B&B Premier Insurance. Both Armor Insurance Services and B&B Premier Insurance are Acrisure Agency partners. Brooks was an agent...
PG&E Cuts Power to 48K California Customers to Avert Wildfire Risk
Sep 25 2019 // Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to 48,200 customers in seven counties in California’s Sierra Foothills and North Bay overnight because of high fire danger. The majority of those affected by the power outage,...
Apollo’s Insurer Unit, Athene Holding, Quietly Settles Harassment Case Against CEO
Sep 25 2019 // The allegations described a boss letting loose with profane tirades, sexist insults, racist comments, even physical intimidation. Purported incidents piled up for four years inside the sprawling investment empire of buyout...
Thousands of Californians Face Power Shutoffs Due to Wildfire Risk
Sep 24 2019 // California utilities are warning that they may shut off electricity to thousands of customers across the state as hot, dry and windy weather raises the risk of another catastrophic wildfire sparked by a power...
California Commissioner: Data Shows ‘Disturbing’ Disparities in Auto Insurance Discounts
Sep 24 2019 // The California Department of Insurance on Tuesday released data from an investigation showing what the CDI is calling “wide socioeconomic disparities” in auto insurance group discounts offered to millions of...
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Partners with Northern California-based M.B. McGowan & Associates Insurance Agency
Sep 24 2019 // Los Angeles, CA, September 24th, 2019 — The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers announced today a partnership with M.B. McGowan & Associates of Novato, CA. M.B. McGowan & Associates is an independent insurance...
Liberty Company in California Names Caswell Director of Information Technology
Sep 23 2019 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Roy Caswell executive vice president and director of information technology. Caswell started in the insurance industry in 1992 working at American...
PG&E Attacks Plan for Paying California Wildfire Victims Before Insurers
Sep 23 2019 // PG&E Corp. and a group of insurers urged a judge to reject a competing reorganization plan for the bankrupt utility because the proposal would pay fire victims who lost their homes ahead of insurance companies and...
Watchdog Asks California Attorney General to Investigate Insurance Commissioner
Sep 23 2019 // Consumer Watchdog has written California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the District Attorneys of Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles counties, calling for an investigation of money laundering and bribery...
Dive Boat, Ghost Ship Fires in California a Lesson in Proving Negligence
Sep 23 2019 // One was a ship in name only, an artist commune set up in an Oakland warehouse. The other was a bona fide boat afloat on the ocean off Santa Barbara. Both became fiery death traps for a combined 70 souls, two of the worst...
C3 Risk & Insurance Services Acquiring Mission West in California
Sep 23 2019 // C3 Risk & Insurance Services has acquired Mission West Insurance, an Orange County, Calif.-based insurance brokerage. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mission West is an independent agency offering business,...
Music Copyright Law in Search of New Standard for Infringement
Sep 23 2019 // Willie Nelson has famously said a country song is “three chords and the truth.” It might not be so simple anymore. A flood of lawsuits is threatening to upend that concept, making trivial similarities in songs...
How Forested Communities Are Trying to Adapt to Growing Wildfire Threat
Sep 23 2019 // Unless it’s Sunday, Kelly Loew is steering her rusty red Jeep down the same mail route in Shingletown, as she has six days a week for the last seven years. But she delivers less mail these days as California’s...
Former California Adjuster Hit With 180-day Sentence for Stealing $130K
Sep 20 2019 // Former licensed public adjuster John Schoon, 54, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was sentenced to 180 days in county jail and five years of felony probation after pleading guilty to three felony counts of embezzlement and one...
Transgender Man Can Sue Catholic Hospital Over Hysterectomy
Sep 20 2019 // A California transgender man can go ahead with a discrimination lawsuit against a Catholic hospital that canceled his hysterectomy, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. The decision by the 1st District Court of Appeal in San...
California Now Looking for Ways to Preserve Environmental Clout
Sep 20 2019 // The Trump administration’s decision to stop California from setting its own emission standards for cars and trucks would undermine the state’s ability to convince the world’s largest automakers that they...
Re/insurers Rethink Climate Change Risks as Losses Grow from Wildfires, Floods, Hail
Sep 20 2019 // By the time David Kaisel got back from selling his flour at a farmers’ market, a wildfire in California’s Capay Valley had burnt both his tractor and the shipping container where he kept some tools. His insurer...
Consumer Watchdog: California Commissioner’s Calendar Suggests He Made Contact in ‘Pay to Play’
Sep 19 2019 // Calendar entries and documents show that California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, not his fundraiser, made first contact with an agent of a workers’ compensation insurance company offering political support in...
California Retailer to Pay $1.2M to Settle Sex-Assault Claims
Sep 19 2019 // A Northern California store as agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle claims that a supervisor sexually assaulted employees in a walk-in freezer. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced a...
