Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California College Data Breach Exposes Student Requests for Vaccine Exemptions
Aug 25 2021 // Personal information from students at a California college who requested a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine has been posted online after an apparent data breach. The records from about 130 students at...
M4 Earthquake Confirmed in Southeastern California
Aug 24 2021 // An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.0 shook an agricultural area of southeastern California early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. The quake struck at 7:57 a.m. south of the Salton Sea, about 7...
California Firefighters Battling a Dozen Large Blazes
Aug 24 2021 // More than 13,500 firefighters were working Monday to contain a dozen large California wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to flee to safety. After an extensive review of fire...
Alliant Acquires Northern California-Based ASURA Risk
Aug 23 2021 // Alliant Insurance Services has acquired Northern California-based ASURA Risk in San Ramon, Calif. Kevin Kilty, principal with ASURA Risk, along with fellow principals Greg Miller and Jon Wheeler, and the entire ASURA team,...
Judge: California Ridesharing Law Is Unconstitutional
Aug 23 2021 // A judge Friday struck down a California ballot measure that exempted Uber and other app-based ride-hailing and delivery services from a state law requiring drivers to be classified as employees eligible for benefits and...
People Moves: Lockton Names Michon President in California; Alliant Adds Racunas
Aug 23 2021 // Lockton Insurance Brokers LLC named Alex Michon president of its Sacramento, Calif., operations. Michon specializes in managed care and multinational organizations that require complex regulatory compliance. Michon has...
State Fund Offering Credit Extension to Policyholders Impacted by California Wildfires
Aug 20 2021 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is offering a 30-day credit extension to policyholders affected by wildfires currently burning in Northern California counties declared states of emergency by Gov.Gavin...
Former California Agent Allegedly Stole $1.2M from Elderly Consumers
Aug 20 2021 // Formerly licensed insurance agent Robert Stoddard, 66, of San Clemente, Calif., was arrested this week after a California Department of Insurance investigation found he allegedly stole $1.2 million from more than 20...
California Wildfire Season Setting a Record, More Damage Expected
Aug 20 2021 // Smoke from California’s wildfires choked people on the East Coast. Flames wiped out a Gold Rush-era town. The acreage burned would dwarf the state of Rhode Island. Images of homes engulfed in flames and mountains...
California Commissioner Issues Non-Renewal Moratorium to Aid Policyholders Affected by Wildfires
Aug 19 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday issued a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance companies from non-renewing or cancelling residential property insurance policies. The action is intended to...
California Drought Hurting World’s Top Almond Producer
Aug 19 2021 // As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a deepening drought threatens one of the...
California Wildfires Are Exhausting 10,000-Strong Army Fighting Them
Aug 19 2021 // There are over 10,000 firefighters battling unprecedented blazes in California, but that isn’t enough, and the state is having a hard time finding more as flames rage across the western U.S. and Canada. Twelve major...
California Judge Tosses School Board Member’s $87M Suit
Aug 18 2021 // A federal judge has thrown out an $87 million lawsuit that a San Francisco school board member filed against the district and her colleagues after they voted to strip her of senior board positions because of tweets that...
Wildfires Advancing Through Northern California
Aug 18 2021 // Northern California wildfires that incinerated two mountain communities continued marching through the Sierra Nevada while a utility purposely blacked out as many as 51,000 customers to prevent new blazes. Two weeks after...
J. Morey Acquires Aihara & Associates in California
Aug 18 2021 // The J. Morey Company Inc. Insurance Agents & Brokers acquired Aihara & Associates Insurance Services Inc. in Los Angeles, Calif. Terms of the deal, which is effective April 1, were not disclosed. Aihara &...
More Homes Threatened as Blazes Burn in California, Across West
Aug 17 2021 // Thousands of homes in Northern California remain threatened by the nation’s largest wildfire as unstable weather creates a high danger of new blazes erupting across the West. Weekend thunderstorms across the northern...
California Workers’ Comp Written Premium Down 13%, Report Shows
Aug 16 2021 // California workers’ compensation written premium for the first quarter of 2021 was 13% below that for the first quarter of 2020, according to a quarterly experience report issued by the Workers’ Compensation...
Wildfires Threaten Rural Towns in Montana, California
Aug 13 2021 // Wildfires in Montana threatened rural towns and ranchland while victims of a California blaze returned to their incinerated community, even as the U.S. West faced another round of dangerous weather and smoke pollution...
California Justices Won’t Limit Governor’s Pandemic Powers
Aug 13 2021 // The California Supreme Court declined to consider reining in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s emergency powers during the coronavirus pandemic, leaving in place a lower court’s ruling that the governor acted within his...
OLI Acquires Walton and Associates in California
Aug 12 2021 // OLI Insurance Services Inc. acquired Walton and Associates Insurance Services. San Jose, Calif.-based Walton and Associates focuses on a variety of commercial lines and personal insurance products for clients in the Bay...
