Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People Moves: BenefitMall Expands Southern California Team
Apr 10 2024 // BenefitMall named Patrice Evart a benefits sales executive for Southern California. Evart has 30 years of experience specializing in employee benefits for employers in Southern California. She recently joined BenefitMall...
California Lawmakers Introduce Disaster Resiliency Bill to Aid State’s Insurance Issues
Apr 10 2024 // California representatives Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) introduced the Disaster Resiliency and Coverage Act of 2024. H.R. 7849 would provide homeowners in disaster-prone regions with incentives to harden...
Farmworker Who Survived Mass Shooting at California Mushroom Farm Sues Company
Apr 9 2024 // A migrant farmworker who survived a mass shooting last year at a Northern California mushroom farm has filed a lawsuit against the farm and one of its owners, saying they failed to keep him safe from the colleague who...
Descartes Labs Acquires Geosite in California
Apr 9 2024 // Descartes Labs acquired all of the operating assets of Geosite, a Palo Alto, Califorina-based SaaS provider of geospatial intelligence to property/casualty insurance companies. Rachel Olney, CEO of Geosite, will be leading...
California Labor Commissioner Reaches $2M Settlement with Restaurant
Apr 8 2024 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office reached a $2 million settlement against Pearl B-Star Inc., DBA Lin’s Fusion for underpaying 32 workers. Pearl B-Star violated state labor laws governing recordkeeping,...
Arrowhead Launching Commercial Auto Product in California
Apr 5 2024 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. in California launched a new commercial auto product. Arrowhead’s Commercial Auto is available to California customers in construction-related industries. The program includes:...
ALKEME in California Undergoing ‘Regional Alignment’ to Improve Efficiency
Apr 4 2024 // ALKEME in California announced the creation off two regions called West – North region and the West – South/South Pacific region for its operations as part of actions the firm said will enhance operations, speed...
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...
