Latest California Headlines
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Southern California Edison Faces $550M in Penalties for 5 Wildfires
Dec 20 2021 // California regulators approved a settlement placing more than half a billion dollars in fines and penalties on the utility Southern California Edison for its role in five wildfires in 2017 and 2018. The penalties relate to...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Bradawn Insurance Services in California
Dec 20 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Escondido, California-based Bradawn Insurance Services Inc. Dawna Gray and her associates will remain in their current location under the direction of Scott Gregory, head of...
California Man Arraigned on 14 Counts of Insurance Fraud in ‘Paper Collision’ Scheme
Dec 20 2021 // Farrukh Hussain, 37, of Eastvale, California, was arraigned on 14 felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly stealing consumers’ identities to file 14 fraudulent insurance claims with six different insurance...
Grand Jury Charges Oil Company in California Spill
Dec 17 2021 // A Los Angeles federal grand jury charged an oil company and two subsidiaries for an oil spill off the California coast in October. Federal prosecutors said Amplify Energy Corp. in Houston, Texas and its two subsidiaries...
Unlicensed California Agent Charged with 80 Felony Counts in Alleged Premium Thefts
Dec 16 2021 // Juan Carlos Martinez, 56, of Yorba Linda, California, has been charged with 12 counts of grand theft, 34 felony counts of forgery, 34 counts of insurance fraud, and one count of money laundering, after allegedly collecting...
Workers’ Comp Bureau of California Issues COVID-19 Analysis
Dec 16 2021 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California in collaboration with several other workers’ comp rating bureaus released the COVID-19’s Impact on Workers Compensation report. To better...
Report: California Public Self-Insured Workers’ Comp Indemnity Claim Cost up
Dec 14 2021 // An analysis shows that in the midst of the pandemic, the total number of job injury claims reported by California public self-insured employers edged down slightly last year, but a growing number of lost-time claims and...
Father, Son Charged With Starting Massive California Wildfire Plead Not Guilty
Dec 14 2021 // A father and son charged with starting a massive California wildfire that destroyed many homes and forced tens of thousands of people to flee Lake Tahoe communities earlier this year pleaded not guilty in court. The El...
California Halts Pony.Ai’s Driverless Testing Permit After Accident
Dec 14 2021 // A California regulator on Monday said it has suspended a driverless testing permit for startup technology firm Pony.ai following an accident – the first time it has issued such a suspension. On Oct. 28, a Pony.ai...
Hub Acquires Assets of Basi Insurance Services in California
Dec 13 2021 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Basi Insurance Services Inc. in California Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Randy Basi, president and CEO of Basi Insurance Services, will report to Michael Der Manouel,...
California Farm Labor Contractor Arraigned in Alleged $1.8M Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Dec 10 2021 // Alfredo Casas, 62, of Stockton, California, has been arraigned on 15 felony counts of insurance fraud, grand theft and tax evasion. Casas allegedly underreported payroll for his farm labor contracting business by over $1...
Safeguards for Leaking California Oil Pipe’s Not Fully Working
Dec 10 2021 // The ruptured offshore pipeline that spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil off the Southern California coast this fall did not have a fully functioning leak detection system at the time, according to a report...
Second California Jury Sides With Bayer in Roundup Cancer Case
Dec 10 2021 // A California jury found that Bayer’s Roundup weedkiller was not the cause of a woman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Bayer said on Thursday, delivering the chemical giant its second trial victory over claims...
California Man Arraigned on 14 Counts of Insurance Fraud in ‘Paper Collision’ Scheme
Dec 6 2021 // Farrukh Hussain, 37, of Eastvale, California, was arraigned on 14 felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly stealing consumers’ identities to file 14 fraudulent insurance claims with six different insurance...
Monarch E&S Acquires Assets of Anderson & Murison in California
Dec 6 2021 // Monarch E&S Insurance Services, a division of Specialty Program Group LLC, acquired the assets of Anderson & Murison Inc. in Los Angeles, California. A&M is a national surplus lines broker and underwriter of...
California Commissioner Orders FAIR Plan to offer More Commercial Coverage
Dec 6 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara in late November ordered the FAIR Plan to implement his mandated increases to its decades-old commercial property coverage limits offered to businesses. “My order is...
Organized Fraud Ring in California Sentenced for 15 Staged Collisions
Dec 6 2021 // Los Angeles, California residents Victor Valle-Diaz, 55, Eduardo Retana, 25, and Ausencio Gomez, 46, were sentenced to serve in state prison after pleading no contest to charges of insurance fraud and assault for their...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Covid Claim Volume Trending Down After Summer Surge
Dec 6 2021 // The summer surge of COVID-19 claims that hit the California workers’ compensation system in July and August appears to have run its course, according to the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. A CWCI...
California Judge Weighing in on Legality of Women Board Member Law
Dec 3 2021 // When then-California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the nation’s first law requiring women on boards of publicly traded companies, he suggested it might not survive legal challenges. Three years later, a judge will begin...
Data Hacked for 400K Planned Parenthood Patients in California
Dec 3 2021 // The Los Angeles branch of Planned Parenthood was hit by a data breach involving about 400,000 patients, but there is no indication that the information was used “for fraudulent purposes,” the group said. A...
