Latest California Headlines
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Sutter Health in California Settling Medicare Allegations for $30M
Apr 16 2019 // A Northern California health care provider has agreed to pay $30 million to settle allegations that it overcharged the federal government for Medicare patient reimbursements. Sutter Health didn’t acknowledge any...
Ruling on Stabbing Prompts Calls for National Workplace Violence Prevention Standard
Apr 16 2019 // A federal commission decision that an employer had a duty to protect a social services worker who was stabbed to death by a client, even though the company did not violate any specific safety standard, reinvigorated...
California Earthquake Authority Board Votes to Sponsor Resilient Homes Initiative
Apr 15 2019 // The California Earthquake Authority’s governing board has voted to sponsor and support the Resilient Homes Initiative, a bill aimed at helping Californians prepare for earthquakes by restructuring the CEA to...
California State Fund Reports Increase in Net Income in 2018
Apr 15 2019 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund reported an increase of net income and written premium in its just-released annual report for 2018. Financial highlights of the 2018 annual report include: Net income of...
California to Consider Allowing Small Self-Driving Delivery Trucks on Roads
Apr 15 2019 // California regulators have proposed regulations that would allow vehicle manufacturers to test or deploy small self-driving delivery trucks on public roads, the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said in a...
FEMA Accused of Wrongly Releasing Data of California Wildfire Victims
Apr 15 2019 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency wrongly released to a contractor the personal information of 2.3 million survivors of devastating 2017 hurricanes and wildfires, potentially exposing the victims to identity fraud...
California’s Governor Proposes Wildfire Fund, Seeks PG&E Fix
Apr 14 2019 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom gave legislators just three months to address a multibillion-dollar wildfire liability problem that has forced the state’s largest power company, PG&E Corp., into bankruptcy and...
Don’t Count on Home Insurance to Cover Cost of Rebuilding: Viewpoint
Apr 12 2019 // Own a home? No doubt you’ve insured it. Very sensible of you. But if that home were, say, burned to the ground, then your insurance company probably wouldn’t cover the cost of rebuilding it. Don’t feel...
California Written Workers’ Comp Premium Down, Quarterly Report for Last Year Shows
Apr 11 2019 // California written premium for 2018 was 4 percent below 2017 and 6 percent below 2016 as recent declining premium rates have more than offset payroll growth, according to a report from the Workers’ Compensation...
California State Fund Launches Telehealth Services
Apr 11 2019 // California’s State Fund will now provide injured workers round-the-clock access physicians from a desktop computer, tablet or mobile phone. State Fund on Thursday announced its partnership with Kura MD, a provider of...
California Committee Passes Bill to Require Large Insurers to Report Supplier, Governing Board Diversity
Apr 10 2019 // California’s Senate Insurance Committee on Wednesday passed legislation aimed at promoting diversity in the state’s insurance industry. Senate Bill 534, introduced by Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, would...
Cavignac & Associates in California Names Snelling Account Manager
Apr 10 2019 // San Diego, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates has named Destiny Snelling an account manager within its commercial department. Snelling serves as the primary contact at the agency for her assigned clients, responsible...
California Insurance Producer Charged with Fraud, Burglary And Grand Theft
Apr 10 2019 // Former California licensed insurance producer Jon Cunningham, 57, has been charged with a dozen felony counts of fraud, including first degree burglary, grand theft, theft from an elder and filing false tax returns after...
Progress Report on California Workers’ Comp Independent Bill Review
Apr 9 2019 // A progress report from the California Division of Workers’ Compensation on the state’s Independent Bill Review program shows seven of 10 decided cases resulted in additional payment for the provider. IBR is a...
Report Ranks California Top of Nation’s in Dog-Related Injury Claims
Apr 9 2019 // A report from carrier State Farm shows it paid $123 million dollars for 3,280 dog bite and injury claims, last year, a decrease of 9 percent compared with the number of dog bite claims in 2017 and a decrease of 7 percent...
Jury Sides with J&J in Latest Talcum-Cancer Claim
Apr 8 2019 // Johnson & Johnson won the latest trial over claims its iconic baby powder can cause cancer, as a jury in Long Beach, California, rejected a lawsuit brought by a 65-year-old retired teacher who claimed the product was...
Defective Electrical Panel Caused 2017 Wildfire in California’s Butte County
Apr 7 2019 // An investigation has determined that a July 2017 wildfire that destroyed more than 40 homes in Northern California was sparked by a defective electrical panel at a Butte County home. The state Department of Forestry and...
California Weighs Catastrophic Wildfire Fund as Way to Protect Utilities
Apr 5 2019 // Creation of a catastrophic wildfire risk pool is emerging as the most likely option as California lawmakers seek to protect the solvency of investor-owned utilities from record payouts for fire damages. PG&E filed for...
Trump Deregulation Plan Facing Court Challenge by 3 States
Apr 5 2019 // California, Oregon and Minnesota sued President Donald Trump and several top cabinet officials over the administration’s requirement that federal agencies delete two regulations for every one they add. Lodged by...
California Dam’s Spillway Gets First Use Since 2017 Flooding Crisis
Apr 3 2019 // Officials at the nation’s tallest dam unleashed water down a rebuilt spillway Tuesday for the first time since it crumbled two years ago and drove hundreds of thousands of California residents from their homes over...
