Latest California Headlines
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Deaths, Damages Continue to Rise in California’s Most Destructive Wildfires
Nov 12 2018 // The most destructive wildfires in California’s history have killed at least 31 people and forced tens of thousands more to evacuate as firefighters struggle to gain control amid swirling winds. The so-called Camp...
California Wildfire Update: Thousands Flee, More Than 50K Without Power
Nov 9 2018 // Fanned by hot, dry winds, wildfires north of San Francisco and near Los Angeles have forced the evacuation of more than 150,000 people in the state, including Malibu, the coastal enclave of the rich and famous. The fires...
California Beach City Evacuated as Fire Jumps Los Angeles Freeway
Nov 9 2018 // California officials ordered an evacuation of the city of Malibu, an enclave for the area’s rich and famous, and told drivers to avoid a major freeway as a wildfire spread north of Los Angeles. The so-called Woolsey...
California Wildfire Grows to More than 20K Acres, More Blazes Erupt
Nov 9 2018 // A wildfire raging in Northern California’s Sierra Nevada foothills quadrupled in size late Thursday and another day of dry winds threatens to make it spread even farther, faster. The blaze near the community of Chico...
California Lowers Workers’ Comp Advisory Rate Again
Nov 7 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday issued a revised advisory workers’ compensation pure premium rate, lowering the benchmark to $1.63 per $100 of payroll effective Jan. 1, 2019. Jones has...
Democrat Lara Leads Poizner in California Insurance Commissioner Race
Nov 7 2018 // Democrat Ricardo Lara was leading Republican-turned-independent Steve Poizner in the race for California Insurance Commissioner. Lara had 50.8 percent of the vote, leading by 105,733 votes, with 95.7 percent of precincts...
Former California Insurance Agent Arraigned on 40 Felony Grand Theft Counts
Nov 6 2018 // Anna Gabriela Garcia, 46, of Capistrano Beach, Calif., was arraigned and charged with 40 felony counts of grand theft after allegedly collecting premium payments from customers and diverting the funds of over $195,000 for...
RIC Names Malkin Business Development Manager in California
Nov 6 2018 // RIC Insurance General Agency has named Brittany Malkin business development manager. She will work to expand their commercial and personal lines marketing efforts, and work primarily with California retail insurance agents...
California Jury Rules Disease Expert Must Pay $105M to Cancer Victim
Nov 5 2018 // A California man convicted of practicing medicine without a license must pay more than $105 million to a woman who said he falsely promised to cure her breast cancer. KNSD-TV says San Diego jurors decided Wednesday that...
Pressure’s on the Trucking Sector
Nov 5 2018 // The transportation industry is considered a barometer of the U.S. economy. If freight is trending up, so too is the U.S. economy. But capacity constraints for trucking – including a shortage of qualified drivers, low...
Pie Founder Talks About Entry into California Workers’ Comp Market
Nov 5 2018 // The launch in the state marks the ninth market entry for the Insurtech in six months. Pie Insurance seems to be slicing its way through workers’ compensation markets in state after state. The Washington, D.C.-based...
California Jury Awards $3M for Catholic School Teacher in Wrongful-Termination Suit
Nov 2 2018 // A jury has awarded more than $3.5 million to a former Catholic school teacher who said the Archdiocese of Los Angeles fired her for being pregnant and unwed. City News Service reported that jurors deliberated for less than...
Power Customers in California File Claims in Pre-Emptive Wildfire Outage
Nov 2 2018 // A Northern California utility received 146 demands for reimbursement from customers who say Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s controversial decision to cut power to prevent wildfires hurt them economically. The...
Confie’s Rothberg Exits California-Based Nonstandard Auto Insurance Giant
Nov 1 2018 // Adios Mordy Rothberg. One of the men behind Confie Seguros, a nonstandard auto insurance giant with an emphasis on serving Hispanic consumers that has been on an agency buying spree since it started in 2008, is calling it...
Another California City Bans Electric Scooters
Nov 1 2018 // The growing pains of shared electric scooter businesses have led one Southern California city to take a wait-and-see approach. The Ventura City Council voted 5-0 this week night to ban scooters after a company called Bird...
California Utility Says Its Equipment Helped Spark Huge Fire
Nov 1 2018 // Southern California Edison said its equipment likely sparked one of two ignition points for the massive wildfire that tore through California’s central coast last year. Witnesses reported flames near the...
AIG Again Battered by Catastrophes But Reinsurance Lowers 3Q Net Loss
Oct 31 2018 // Catastrophe losses in Japan and North America pushed American International Group to a net loss of $1.3 billion for the third quarter of 2018, compared to a net loss of $1.7 billion in the prior-year quarter. Adjusted...
School District in California Settles Teacher Sex Suit for $5M
Oct 31 2018 // The Los Angeles Unified School District will pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of a student who was molested by a teacher when she was 13. It would be the largest payout the nation’s second-largest...
Weather, Wildfire Claims an Increasing Share of Home Insurance Losses
Oct 31 2018 // U.S homeowners insurers saw an increase in both the number of losses and the percentage of those losses that resulted from an extreme weather event during 2017. According to a LexisNexis Home Trends report, loss costs...
Waymo Cleared to be First in California for Testing Without Backup Driver
Oct 30 2018 // Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit on Tuesday became the first company to receive a permit from the state of California to test driverless vehicles without a backup driver in the front seat, the state’s Department of...
