Latest California Headlines
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Grim California Wildfire Outlook Has Insurers Forking Over Big Bucks for Modeling
Jul 5 2021 // Severe drought and searing temperatures are not the only proof that Californians should be worried about wildfires this year. A glaring piece of evidence that there’s ample cause for concern is this: those who will...
PG&E in California Seeks $3.6B in Rate Hikes for Wildfire Safety
Jul 2 2021 // Pacific Gas & Electric asked regulators Wednesday to grant a $3.6 billion rate hike to help it pay for hardening its power systems to prevent deadly wildfires. The nation’s largest electric utility requested the...
California Firefighters Battling Growing Wildfires
Jul 1 2021 // Hundreds of firefighters labored this week in high heat on the lines of big wildfires in the forests of far northern California as many communities remained under lengthening evacuation orders. Mount Shasta, the volcano...
California City is Requiring Gun Owners to Carry Liability Insurance
Jul 1 2021 // San Jose, Calif., officials have passed a new law that requires gun owners to carry liability insurance and pay a fee to cover taxpayers’ costs associated with gun violence. The law is the first in the U.S. and was...
California Advances Decriminalizing Psychedelic Substances
Jul 1 2021 // California this week moved another step closer to decriminalizing psychedelics – amid a debate over whether their prohibition is an outdated remnant of the War on Drugs – after the author removed a substance from the...
Northern California Wildfire Forces Evacuation Orders
Jun 30 2021 // A wildfire in Northern California has grown significantly and begun to pose a threat communities. The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office issued evacuation orders Monday for the Lake Shastina and Juniper Valley...
Consumer Report Claims Insurers Overcharged California Motorists $5.5B During First Year of Pandemic
Jun 29 2021 // Most California insurance companies continued to charge pre-pandemic auto insurance rates despite a vast majority of Californians driving far less last year, according to an analysis by Consumer Watchdog on Tuesday. The...
California Workers’ Comp Insurer Losses and Expenses $12B for 2020
Jun 29 2021 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has released its latest report on workers’ comp losses and expenses for 2020. Key findings in the report, 2020 California Workers’...
California Doctors’ Lobby Scores ‘Major Victory’ on Bill to Hold Physicians Accountable
Jun 28 2021 // The board that licenses and disciplines doctors in California is failing to hold bad actors accountable, endangering patients in the process. That’s the verdict of state lawmakers and patient advocates who have been...
Insuring Properties a Struggle for Many in California’s Risky Fire Areas
Jun 25 2021 // As California’s wildfire season looms, threatening once again to break records for destruction, tens of thousands of rural homeowners risk facing the flames without enough insurance to rebuild if their homes...
California Health and Safety Rules for Oil, Gas Drilling Delayed Again
Jun 25 2021 // It’s been a year and a half since California Gov. Gavin Newsom directed oil regulators to consider new health and safety measures to protect people living near oil and gas drilling sites. But those regulators missed...
People Moves: Liberty Company Names Taylor VP in California; LP Adds Schroeder to Commercial Team
Jun 25 2021 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Valerie Taylor a vice president, producer in the San Francisco Bay area office. Taylor has 16 years of experience in the insurance industry, with niches in cannabis, real...
U.S. Supreme Court Backs Businesses Challenging California Labor Law
Jun 24 2021 // The Supreme Court on June 23 sided with California agriculture businesses that objected to a state regulation giving unions access to farm property in order to organize workers. As a result of the ruling, the...
California Wildfires Burning in Coastal And Sierra Wilderness
Jun 23 2021 // California wildfires were burning in tinder dry vegetation in rugged central coast mountains and near an Eastern Sierra trailhead where hikers begin treks to the summit of Mount Whitney. More than 500 firefighters were...
Lawsuit Claims Man Struck Dozens of Times in Face by Shots in California
Jun 23 2021 // A lawsuit against seven Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies accused them of beating a man dozens of times in the face, leaving him with broken bones and loss of sight in one eye, his attorneys...
Labor Crisis Shocking California Restaurants
Jun 23 2021 // Sherry Villanueva’s family of Santa Barbara restaurants employed 350 people before the pandemic took hold and darkened dining rooms across California. Now, with the state’s economy officially reopened, about...
Firefighters in California Working to Contain Large Wildfire
Jun 22 2021 // California’s weather moderated after a long siege of extreme heat but firefighters still faced the difficult task of trying to contain a large forest fire in rugged coastal mountains south of Big Sur. The Willow Fire...
Grim California Wildfire Outlook Has Insurers Forking Over Big Bucks for Modeling
Jun 18 2021 // Severe drought and searing temperatures are not the only proof that Californians should be worried about wildfires this year. A glaring piece of evidence that there’s ample cause for concern is this: those who will...
Waymo in California Getting $2.5B to Fuel Self-Driving Ambitions
Jun 18 2021 // Waymo, the self-driving car pioneer spun off from Google, isn’t allowing a recent wave of executive departures to detour its plans to expand its robotic taxi service. The Mountain View, California, company made that...
People Moves: Lockton Names Harrison Market Leader in California, Hanleigh Names Haley Sales Director
Jun 17 2021 // Lockton Insurance Brokers LLC has named Sherri Harrison, senior vice president, to market leader. Harrison is responsible for clients, people, operations and the growth of the benefits practice in San Diego, Calif., and...
