Latest California Headlines
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Mercury Insurance to Return to Fire-Ravaged Paradise, California
Jan 8 2025 // Mercury Insurance announced this week that the company will begin writing new homeowners insurance policies in the town of Paradise, California. Mercury says it is the first major insurance company to begin offering...
Exxon Sues California AG, Environmental Groups Over ‘Smear’
Jan 7 2025 // Exxon Mobil Corp. filed a lawsuit alleging that California Attorney General Rob Bonta and several environmental groups made defamatory comments about the oil company’s ability to recycle plastic. Exxon accused Bonta,...
Former California Insurance Agent Convicted After Stealing $3.7M
Jan 7 2025 // A former insurance agent plead guilty to stealing premium from a premium finance company. Formerly licensed insurance agent Tonja Van Roy, 59, who currently resides in Las Vegas, but operated an insurance agency based in...
California Winds Drive Severe Fire Danger in Rain-Starved LA
Jan 6 2025 // Exceptionally powerful, dry winds expected across Southern California this week are set to send wildfire risk skyrocketing in a region that’s endured more than eight months without significant rain. Forecasters...
SageSure Closes Acquisition of GeoVera Advantage Insurance Services in California
Jan 3 2025 // SageSure closed the acquisition of GeoVera Advantage Insurance Services LLC in Fairfield, California. The entity will now function as a newly formed managing general agent and includes the residential earthquake risk...
Verisk to Get First Cat Model Under Review for Insurance Ratemaking in California
Jan 2 2025 // Verisk said on Thursday it will be the first modeler to request a review of its wildfire catastrophe model under a reform pushed by California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara. The reform allows catastrophe models to be...
California State Fund Declaring 15% Dividend for 2024 Policy Year
Jan 2 2025 // State Compensation Insurance Fund in California announced that it will declare a $149 million dividend to qualifying policyholders with policies that took effect between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2024. This dividend equals...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires BMR Insurance in California
Dec 31 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Tustin, California-based Murray Gardner Insurance Agency Inc., dba BMR Insurance. Gary Arch and his team will remain in their current location under the direction of Scott Firestone,...
California Commissioner Issues Regulation to Allow Reinsurance in Ratemaking
Dec 30 2024 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday announced what he is calling the final step in his efforts to help the state’s ailing homeowners insurance market with the Net Cost of Reinsurance in...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires California’s BMR Insurance
Dec 30 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Tustin, California-based Murray Gardner Insurance Agency Inc., dba BMR Insurance. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. BMR Insurance is a retail insurance...
People Moves: EPIC Names Rosson Northern California Growth Leader; Lara Makes Reappointments to CIGA Board
Dec 30 2024 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants Appoints Rosson as Northern California Growth Leader Charlie Rosson EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants hired Charlie Rosson as Northern California growth leader. Rosson spent...
California’s Lemon Law Is Changing and Car Buyers Have Fewer Protections
Dec 26 2024 // The year 2025 is shaping up to be a confusing one for Californians unlucky enough to buy a new or used car that turns out to be a clunker. Starting Jan. 1, car buyers who purchase a faulty vehicle will have to navigate a...
California Milk Output Down 9% in November on Bird Flu Outbreak
Dec 23 2024 // California’s milk production in November plummeted as a bird flu outbreak spreads rapidly among herds in the country’s biggest dairy state. The state produced just under three billion pounds of milk in...
California Labor Commissioner Fines Luxury Resort $4.4M for Worker Recall Violations
Dec 23 2024 // The Labor Commissioner’s Office fined the Maybourne Beverly Hills $4.4 million for violating California’s Worker Recall Law. The LCO issued the fine in response to the a luxury resort’s failure to rehire...
Safeco to Stop Writing New Condo and Renter Policies in California
Dec 20 2024 // It appears another insurance carrier is turning sour on wildfire-prone California. Safeco, a Liberty subsidiary, is preparing to stop writing new condo and rental policies in California at the beginning of next year....
Doctor to Plead Guilty to Bilking $3M from California’s Workers’ Comp Trust Fund
Dec 20 2024 // A physician who worked for an Inland Empire medical company has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud California’s workers’ compensation trust fund by continuing to work on workers’ comp matters...
California Man Sentenced to 16 Years for Auto Insurance Fraud
Dec 20 2024 // A California man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for filing false claims on dozens of auto collisions. Jacob McNabb, 33, of Bakersfield, was sentenced following a jury’s guilty verdict on four felony counts...
EPA Approves California’s Plan to Ban Sale of Gas-Only Cars in 2035
Dec 19 2024 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday it has approved California’s landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035. The decision in the final weeks of President Joe Biden’s...
Severe Weather Brings Snow, Ice to Midwest and a Tornado in California
Dec 17 2024 // OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A tornado near a mall in central California swept up cars, uprooted trees and sent several people to the hospital. In San Francisco, authorities issued the first-ever tornado warning. Elsewhere,...
EPA Awards $135M to California to Phase out Big Diesel Trucks
Dec 16 2024 // The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $135 million in grants to fund 13 projects in California to help the state wean off fossil fuels and phase out big rigs that run on diesel. The money will go to the state...
