Latest California Headlines
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California Man Gets Prison for False Sex Assault Claims in $100M Suit Against Hollywood Executives
Jan 11 2024 // A California man was sentenced to four years in prison for seeking to win a $100 million lawsuit by making false sexual assault claims against Hollywood executives. Rovier Carrington, 34, of Los Angeles was sentenced in...
Report: California 4th Most Expensive State for Business Owners, Washington No. 2
Jan 10 2024 // California ranks fourth for high business startup and maintenance costs, following No. 1 ranked New York as as the most expensive state for entrepreneurs, with high commercial rent costs, weekly wages, and LLC filing...
Group Wants California AG to Investigate OpenAI’s Nonprofit Status
Jan 10 2024 // Public Citizen on Tuesday called on the California Attorney General Robert Bonta to investigate whether OpenAI should retain its non-profit status based on recent news reports that suggest tthe nonprofit may be acting...
Guards to Monitor Businessman’s Sites Under California Freeway Where Arson Occurred
Jan 9 2024 // More than a month after an arson fire at a storage yard damaged a key Los Angeles freeway, the state has hired security guards to watch out for smoke and other trouble at three additional sites beneath Interstate 10 that...
Driverless Truck Companies Plan to Ditch Human Copilots in 2024
Jan 5 2024 // Driverless trucks with no humans on board will soon cruise Texas highways if three startup firms have their way, despite objections from critics who say financial pressures, not safety, is behind the timetable. After years...
Report: Data From California Traffic Stops Shows ‘Pervasive Pattern’ of Racial Profiling
Jan 5 2024 // Black people accounted for nearly 13% of traffic stops in California in 2022, far above their 5% share of the state’s population, according to a report released Wednesday under a law designed to address racial...
EEOC Says No Need to Pause Lawsuit Against Tesla for Race Bias
Jan 4 2024 // A U.S. anti-discrimination agency has asked a federal judge to reject Tesla Inc’s bid to pause a lawsuit alleging widespread racial bias at the electric carmaker’s flagship Fremont, California, assembly...
Questions on AI, Budget Deficit, Gun Owners Liability Await California Lawmakers
Jan 4 2024 // California lawmakers returned to work this week for the start of an election-year legislative session dominated by decisions on artificial intelligence and the state`s struggling budget. The budget is a big issue every...
People Moves: Baum Named Chief Operating Officer of California Workers’ Comp Institute
Jan 4 2024 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute named Gideon L. Baum chief operating officer. He will take over the role on Feb. 1. Baum most recently served as the vice president of policy at the California Hospital...
People Moves: SES Risk Solutions in California Names Shenouda President
Jan 3 2024 // SES Risk Solutions, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., named Shaun Shenouda president. Shenouda takes over the role from Bill Mecklenburg, who recently assumed leadership of Alliant Underwriting Solutions as senior managing...
People Moves: Aspire in California Names Alam and Newgarden to New Roles
Dec 29 2023 // Aspire General Insurance Company, headquartered in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., named Bilal Alam actuary and chief data officer and Tom Newgarden as an Aspire board member. Alam previously served as vice president and head of...
Google Settles $5 Billion Consumer Privacy Lawsuit
Dec 29 2023 // Alphabet’s Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in...
World Meteorological Organization Says 2023 Will Easily Break Climate Records
Dec 29 2023 // With a few days left to go until next year, it can be said that 2023 has officially shattered climate records. A World Meteorological Organization provisional State of the Global Climate report confirmed that 2023 is set...
Top West Insurance Journal Stories of 2023
Dec 29 2023 // Insurers pulling back from an increasingly risky California market grabbed the attention of Insurance Journal readers this year. This was the subject of the top four most popular stories in Insurance Journal’s West...
Twitter Violated Contract by Failing to Pay Millions in Bonuses, Judge Rules
Dec 28 2023 // Twitter violated contracts by failing to pay millions of dollars in bonuses that the social media company, now called X Corp, had promised its employees, a federal judge ruled on Friday. Mark Schobinger, who was...
Covered California Enrollment Rose 18% as Deadline Approaches
Dec 28 2023 // With a key deadline coming up on Dec. 31, Covered California announced that 161,670 people have signed up for 2024 coverage as of Dec. 23 during this open enrollment. That marks an 18% increase over the same period last...
California Lawsuit Says Grocer Broke Law by Asking Job-Seekers About Criminal Histories
Dec 27 2023 // California sued the Ralphs supermarket chain, alleging that it violated state law by asking job-seekers whether they had criminal records and illegally rejecting hundreds of applicants. The California Civil Rights...
California Awards $21.7M to Boost Climate Resilience Across the State
Dec 26 2023 // A new Regional Resilience Grant Program aims to protect California communities from climate impacts like wildfire, drought, sea level rise and extreme heat. State leaders have unveiled a $21.7 million funding initiative in...
California Commissioner Warns Insurers About Auto Insurance Consumer Complaints
Dec 22 2023 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued an official notice to insurers regarding consumers who have been reporting issues obtaining auto insurance coverage. The California Department of Insurance continues to...
Study Reviewed Most Common Private Civil Cases in California
Dec 22 2023 // A new analysis of court cases in California over a year showed civil rights cases and personal injury cases were the most common civil cases in the state. Of the 25,636 civil cases in California for the 12-month period...
