Latest California Headlines
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Privacy Watchdog Suit Says California Utility Targeted Asians in Pot Searches
Sep 26 2022 // Extraordinary use of electricity has long been a telltale sign of illegal grow houses producing thousands of marijuana plants hidden in seemingly ordinary homes. But a lawsuit filed by a data privacy watchdog says a...
How Do You Solve a Problem Like California?
Sep 23 2022 // California has a wildfire crisis. Arguably, the entire Western United States has a wildfire crisis, but California’s crisis is of an entirely different magnitude. California also has a homeowners insurance crisis....
New Report on California Workers’ Comp Medical Payment Trends
Sep 22 2022 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released an updated California Workers’ Compensation Aggregate Medical Payment Trends report for 2021. The latest annual report compares medical...
California Commissioner Orders Another Insurance Cancellation Moratorium for Wildfire
Sep 22 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday ordered insurance companies to preserve residential insurance coverage following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest wildfire emergency declarations. Lara’s...
People Moves: Venbrook in California Names Pippin Chief Claims Officer; Makes Numerous Leadership Moves
Sep 22 2022 // Venbrook Group LLC named Louis Pippin as chief claims officer of Venbrook Claims Services. Pippin has nearly 30 years of experience in the areas of multi-line property/casualty liability lines, case management, cost...
$600K for Woman Attacked by Police Dog in California
Sep 21 2022 // San Diego, California, officials approved a $600,000 payout to a woman who was severely injured when a police dog attacked her in her own yard after escaping from its trainer’s home nearby. A lawsuit filed by Jenna...
Missing Woman Found After Southern California Mudslides
Sep 20 2022 // A woman who went missing after recent flash floods unleashed mudslides that swept through her town in the Southern California mountains has been found dead under a pile of mud, rocks and other debris, authorities...
California Funding Research to Develop New Wildfire Defense Tools
Sep 19 2022 // The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is funding research to better predict who wildfires spread from burning wildlands to communities. CalFire awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers Albert...
California OKs Bill Protecting Workers Who Use Marijuana at Home
Sep 19 2022 // California could soon become the seventh state to make sure people won’t lose their jobs if they smoke marijuana when they’re off the clock. State lawmakers in late August passed a bill to stop companies from...
California Lawmakers Pass Landmark Fast Food Workers Bill
Sep 19 2022 // California lawmakers approved a nation-leading measure that would give more than a half-million fast food workers more power and protections, over the objections of restaurant owners who warn it would drive up...
California Commissioner Orders Insurance Cancellation Moratorium for new Wildfire
Sep 16 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Friday ordered insurers to preserve residential insurance coverage following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest emergency declaration over as another major wildfire threatens...
Woman Whose Rape DNA Led to Her Arrest in California Files Lawsuit
Sep 16 2022 // A rape victim whose DNA from her sexual assault case was used by San Francisco police to arrest her in an unrelated property crime on filed a lawsuit against the city. During a search of a San Francisco Police Department...
California Cleaning up from Destructive Mudslides
Sep 16 2022 // Rescuers searched this week for a person missing in a mudslide that swept boulders down fire-scarred slopes and damaged or destroyed 30 homes in the Southern California mountains as firefighters in the northern part of the...
California Workers’ Comp Independent Medical Review Volume Fell in First Half of 2022
Sep 16 2022 // After hitting a record low in 2021, the number of independent medical reviews used to resolve California workers’ comp medical disputes continued to decline in the first half of 2022 according to the California...
California Mudslides Damage Homes, Carry Away Cars
Sep 15 2022 // Rescuers searched for a person missing this week in a mudslide as big yellow tractors plowed through dark, thick sludge and pushed boulders off roads after flash floods swept dirt, rocks and trees down fire-scarred slopes,...
Fitch Rates California Earthquake Authority’s New Revenue Bonds ‘A-‘
Sep 15 2022 // Fitch Ratings assigned an ‘A-‘ rating to the $500 million revenue bond issuance by The California Earthquake Authority. According to the rating agency, the CEA’s ratings reflect a risk transfer strategy...
California Mudslides Damage Homes, Carry Away Cars
Sep 14 2022 // Rescuers searched for a person missing in a mudslide Tuesday as big yellow tractors plowed through dark, thick sludge and pushed boulders off roads after flash floods swept dirt, rocks and trees down fire-scarred slopes,...
Southern California Evacuations Prompted by Rains and Mudslides
Sep 13 2022 // Thousands of residents were under evacuation and shelter-in-place orders early Tuesday after heavy rains unleashed mudslides in a mountain area east of Los Angeles that burned two years ago, sending boulders and other...
Restaurants Working to Halt New California Fast Food Worker Law
Sep 13 2022 // Restaurant owners moved recently to at least temporarily block a nation-leading new California law giving more power to fast food workers. The owners want the state’s voters to ultimately decide the law’s...
Oil Company Settles Criminal Cases In California Spill
Sep 12 2022 // An oil company on pleaded guilty in federal court to negligently discharging crude off the Southern California coast when its underwater pipeline ruptured last year, a spill that closed miles of shoreline and shuttered...
