Latest California Headlines
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Report: Pilot Fought to Save Helicopter Before Deadly California Crash
Mar 11 2022 // The pilot of a police helicopter desperately tried to keep flying before crashing into the ocean off Southern California last month, killing another officer, investigators said in a preliminary report Wednesday. Two...
California Commissioner OKs Higher Commercial Coverage Limits for FAIR Plan
Mar 10 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved increases in the limits of coverage to the California FAIR Plan Association’s commercial programs offered to businesses, no later than May 1. Lara’s...
California Spraying Company Found Liable for Pesticide Drifts
Mar 10 2022 // A Northern California pesticide spraying company was negligent on at least five occasions its helicopter pilots allowed the toxic chemicals to drift onto neighboring orchards, children playing soccer and a woman standing...
Online University Paying $22M in California Suit for Misleading Students
Mar 10 2022 // A California judge has ordered an online, for-profit university and its former parent company to pay $22 million in penalties, saying they mislead students about the costs of their education, among other things, the...
People Moves: EPIC Adds Lucero in California; CLARA Names Cossio VP of Sales
Mar 9 2022 // EPIC has added Juliet Lucero in Newport Beach, California. Lucero will work with schools to identify the benefits strategies to meet short-term and long-term goals, while establishing programs to address the needs of...
ALKEME Acquires Chergey Insurance in California
Mar 8 2022 // ALKEME acquired Chergey Insurance in Thousand Oaks, California. Chergey Insurance offers services including workers’ compensation, property, general liability, and commercial auto. ALKEME is brokerage operating in 50...
Nevada Utility to Inspect Power Lines Near 2020 Reno Wildfire
Mar 7 2022 // Nevada’s largest utility plans to inspect power lines near a Reno neighborhood where a 2020 wildfire destroyed five homes and damaged two dozen others, a blaze that investigators blamed on arching power lines in gale...
Medical Access in California Workers’ Compensation Examined
Mar 7 2022 // A new California Workers’ Compensation Institute study shows injured workers’ overall access to medical care for their initial treatment remained relatively consistent between 2010 and 2020. CWCI used data from...
Lawsuit: Faulty Equipment Killed California Firefighters
Mar 7 2022 // The families of two California firefighters killed in a 2020 blaze are suing several makers of life-saving equipment for negligence, alleging the devices were defective and caused their loved ones’ deaths, the...
California Couple Sentenced in $1M Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Mar 7 2022 // Carmen Hall Soruco, 70, and her husband Antonio Soruco, 75, both of Novato, California, were sentenced after pleading guilty to workers’ compensation fraud charges. Hall was sentenced on multiple felony counts to two...
California Cites Resort $3.3M for Failing to Rehire Workers Axed During Pandemic
Mar 4 2022 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office cited Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes $3.3 million for failing to offer job positions to 53 employees laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic once the resort...
People Moves: Pinnacol Names O’Donnell President and CEO; Altman Becomes CEO of Covered California
Mar 4 2022 // Pinnacol Assurance named John O’Donnell president and CEO. He will join the company Feb. 28. O’Donnell will succeed Phil Kalin, who is retiring on March 31. O’Donnell has 30 years of leadership...
Oil Company Sues Over California Underwater Pipeline Leak
Mar 2 2022 // A Houston-based oil company on Feb. 28 sued two container ship operators and an organization that helps oversee marine traffic, saying they failed to prevent last fall’s underwater pipeline leak off the Southern...
California Bar Investigates After Records Published Online
Mar 2 2022 // The State Bar of California is investigating a data breach after learning that a website published confidential information about 260,000 attorney discipline cases in California and other jurisdictions. State Bar officials...
‘Injections, Injections, Injections’: Troubling Questions Follow Closure of Sprawling Pain Clinic Chain
Mar 2 2022 // HANFORD, Calif. — On May 13 of last year, the cellphones of thousands of California residents undergoing treatment for chronic pain lit up with a terse text message: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, Lags Medical...
People Moves: Pathpoint Names Blust Chief Revenue Officer; Woodruff Sawyer Adds Urick in California
Mar 2 2022 // Pathpoint Inc. named Ralph Blust chief revenue officer and president. Blust oversees Pathpoint’s sales and underwriting operations teams. Blust has more than 35 years of insurance industry leadership. He was most...
California Allows Cruise, Waymo Autonomous Vehicle Passenger Service
Mar 1 2022 // The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Monday issued permits to self-driving units of General Motors and Alphabet Inc. to allow for passenger service in autonomous vehicles with safety drivers present. CPUC...
8 Hurt and 15 Rescued in California Apartment Building Fire
Feb 28 2022 // Firefighters in San Francisco rescued 15 people and seven cats and dogs as flames ripped through an apartment building, officials said. The fire burned on the third and fourth floors of the building in the city’s...
People Moves: Surplus Line Association of California Names Beaver Board Chair, Gobler Vice Chair, Washington Secretary
Feb 28 2022 // The members of the Surplus Line Association of California elected Janet Beaver as chair of the SLA board. Eligible members of the SLA elected her via an electronic vote taken prior to the SLA’s virtual annual meeting...
California Commissioner Wants to Require Insurers to Factor Wildfire Safety Steps into Pricing
Feb 25 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced new regulations he believes will improve wildfire safety and drive down the cost of insurance for homeowners and businesses. The proposed regulations, which could be...
