Latest California Headlines
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Report: Four-in-10 California Workers’ Comp Claims from Workers with Less Than a Year of Tenure
Apr 4 2024 // Roughly four-in-10 workers’ compensation claims come from workers with less than one year of tenure, a new report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California shows. The report shows 40%...
Viewpoint: Many Businesses May Be Exposed to Losses From Snow Melt Flooding
Apr 3 2024 // Executive summary: Snow melt flooding is an imminent threat in the U.S., but there are steps insurance professionals can take to mitigate their clients’ risk, says Richard Coyle, U.S. commercial director at...
Public Health Groups Sue FDA Again Over Delayed Menthol Ban
Apr 3 2024 // Public health groups sued US regulators a second time for failing to follow through on a plan to ban menthol-flavored tobacco products. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in a federal court in Northern California claims that the...
California Green City Backers Advance Landowner Legal Fight
Apr 2 2024 // A company that bought property for a group of tech billionaires trying to build a sustainable city in northern California won a ruling advancing its lawsuit that accused landowners in the project’s target area of a...
New $20 Minimum Wage for Fast Food Workers in California Began Monday
Apr 1 2024 // Most fast food workers in California will be paid at least $20 an hour began Monday, when a new law kicked in giving more financial security to an historically low-paying profession while threatening to raise prices in a...
AM Best Downgrades Ratings of State Farm General
Apr 1 2024 // Roughly a week after State Farm announced that it would nonrenew tens of thousands of homeowners and commercial apartment policies in California, AM Best has downgraded the company that offered those policies. Last week,...
People & Places
Apr 1 2024 // National CRC Group, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, hired Vince Colosimo as executive vice president in the company’s New York City downtown office. Colosimo will assume the role of office president in...
Waymo’s Robotaxi Expands into Los Angeles, Starting Free Rides in Parts of City
Apr 1 2024 // Robotaxis began cruising the streets of Los Angeles in mid-March when Google spinoff Waymo starts offering free rides to some of the roughly 50,000 people who have signed up for its driverless ride-hailing service. Waymo...
The Cyber Risk Pendulum
Apr 1 2024 // Privacy risk is so 2014, right? Ten years ago, numerous retail and healthcare companies were hit with data breaches related to the exposure of credit card or healthcare data. Given many data breach claims, which included...
Berkeley to Halt Ban on Natural Gas Piping in New Buildings
Mar 28 2024 // The city of Berkeley, California, has agreed to halt enforcement of a ban on natural gas piping in new homes and buildings that was successfully opposed in court by the California Restaurant Association, the organization...
Louisiana’s Temple Seeks Reform in Response to State Farm’s California Cuts
Mar 28 2024 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple pointed to State Farm’s decision to non-renew policies in the California market as a warning for lawmakers to modernize Louisiana’s regulatory framework and address...
Former California Insurance Agent Found Guilty of Taking $1.2M from Victims
Mar 28 2024 // Former licensed insurance agent Brett E. Lovett, 53, of Camarillo, California, was found guilty of 29 felony counts including grand theft, elder abuse, money laundering, and burglary after a 15-month California Department...
California Beefing up Recruitment for Inspectors to Better Enforce Workplace Laws
Mar 28 2024 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations is beefing up a statewide effort to recruit inspectors and investigators throughout California to more thoroughly enforce labor and workplace laws. The DIR is hiring...
Hospitality Workers Ratify New Contract with 34 Southern California Hotels
Mar 27 2024 // Thousands of Southern California hospitality workers overwhelmingly ratified a new contract with 34 hotels after repeated strikes since the summer, their union announced. Workers won higher pay, increased employer...
People Moves: Aspire in California Names McQuaid VP of Product; CWCI Elects 2024 Board of Directors
Mar 26 2024 // Aspire Appoints McQuaid VP of Product Aspire General Insurance, headquartered in Rancho Cucamonga, California, named Pam McQuaid vice president of product. McQuaid has more than 25 years of extensive experience in...
California Work Safety Board Approves Indoor Heat Rules, But Another State Agency Raises Objections
Mar 25 2024 // As global warming raises temperatures, a California work safety board has approved standards that would require companies to protect employees from excessive indoor heat, particularly in warehouses. The rules still need to...
People Moves: Aspire in California Names Daniel Director of Underwriting
Mar 25 2024 // Aspire General Insurance named Tracy Daniel director of underwriting. Daniel has more than 26 years of leadership experience in the underwriting field. Most recently, she was the underwriting associate operations manager...
Chevron to Pay Over $13M in Settlement for California Oil Spills
Mar 21 2024 // Chevron will pay $13.1 million in settlement agreements with two California state agencies for past oil spills in Kern County, Bakersfield, the California natural resources agency said on Wednesday, as the major oil...
Justice Department Sues Apple in Antitrust Case Over iPhone
Mar 21 2024 // The US Justice Department and 16 attorneys general sued Apple Inc., accusing the iPhone maker of violating antitrust laws by blocking rivals from accessing hardware and software features on its popular devices. The suit,...
State Farm Nonrenewing 30K California Homeowners, Renters
Mar 20 2024 // State Farm General Insurance Co. said it will non-renew 30,000 California homeowners, rental dwelling, and other property insurance policies State Farm announced in May last year it had stopped accepting new policy...
