Latest California Headlines
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Northern California’s Cascade Wildfire Tied to PG&E Equipment
Oct 9 2018 // PG&E Corp.-owned equipment caused the Cascade fire in Northern California last year, state investigators have determined. Sagging power lines were the ignition source of the blaze, the California Department of Forestry...
Registration Opens For 2019 Seismic Retrofit Grant Program in California
Oct 9 2018 // Registration opens today for the 2019 Earthquake Brace + Bolt program, which offers eligible homeowners grants of up to $3,000 for seismic retrofits to strengthen their older houses and make them more resistant to...
Alliant Names Guth Vice President in Southern California
Oct 9 2018 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Daniel J. Guth a vice president in Orange County, Calif. Guth will provide workers’ compensation, risk management, and property/casualty solutions to a diverse portfolio of...
Report: California Self-Insured Workers’ Comp Claim Frequency Rose Last Year
Oct 8 2018 // Workers’ compensation claim frequency reported by California’s private self-insured employers rose last year, the first increase in a decade, according to the California Workers’ Compensation...
Parents of Teen Who Drowned in Swim Class File Claim in California
Oct 8 2018 // The parents of a teenager who drowned during a high school swim class have filed a claim with his Northern California school district. The claim, generally a precursor to a lawsuit, alleges that a physical education...
California Heads into its Peak Fire Season with State-Sized Burn Scar
Oct 8 2018 // California is poised to set an annual record it never wanted to break: the amount of earth scorched by wildfires. Blazes have already ripped through enough acres to blacken the entire state of Delaware, and what’s...
Summary of 2018 Workers’ Comp-Related Bills Signed into Law in California
Oct 4 2018 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Thursday issued a summary of legislation signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. The Legislature recessed for the year on Aug. 31, and Brown had until...
California Insurance Commissioner Wants Inventory Requirements Eased for 2018 Wildfire Survivors
Oct 4 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones wants insurers to assist wildfire survivors by voluntarily easing detailed personal property home inventory requirements and to follow the lead of other insurers providing at...
Murray and Murray in California Rebranding to Leavitt Coastal Valley
Oct 4 2018 // Santa Maria, Calif.-based Murray and Murray Insurance has rebranded to better reflect its affiliation with the Leavitt Group. The agency will now do business as Leavitt Coastal Valley. Dan Lillard remains the managing...
Remnants of Tropical Storm Causes Flooding, Traps Arizona Cars
Oct 4 2018 // Remnants of a tropical storm drenched parts of the desert Southwest this week, trapping some drivers on swamped streets of Phoenix, Ariz. as authorities prepared for possible flash flooding in the state, central Utah and...
California Catholic Bishops at Center of Sex Abuse Lawsuit
Oct 4 2018 // A man who says he was sexually abused decades ago by his parish priest said he is suing all Catholic bishops in California and the Archdiocese of Chicago, seeking to compel church officials to release records on clergy...
California Woman Paralyzed by Falling Tree Limb Will Get $14.5M
Oct 4 2018 // San Francisco supervisors have approved a $14.5 million settlement for a woman who was paralyzed from the waist down when she was struck by a heavy tree limb at a park two years ago. The San Francisco Chronicle reported...
A U.S. Privacy Law Could Be Good for Google, but Bad for You
Oct 3 2018 // U.S. Congress is taking the first steps toward setting national rules governing how companies use consumers data – although one of its goals might be to prevent states from enacting stronger privacy protections of...
Lloyd’s U.S. Chief Says They’re Ready to Get into Canadian Cannabis Market
Oct 2 2018 // Lloyd’s is set to get into Canada’s cannabis market when recreational marijuana becomes legal there on Oct. 17, according to Hank Watkins, president of Lloyd’s America Inc. Watkins was speaking today at...
Insurtech Jumpstart Rolls out Parametric Earthquake Product for Californians
Oct 2 2018 // A firm that wants to make a name for itself as the first parametric insurtech in the U.S. for earthquakes has officially launched in California, over a year after its anticipated original launch date. Jumpstart Insurance...
Topa in California Names O’Brien Marketing Director
Oct 2 2018 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group has named Delaney O’Brien director of marketing and communications. O’Brien will develop strategies to enhance Topa Insurance’s public image and cultivate...
Flash Flood Watches for Parts of Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah
Oct 1 2018 // The National Weather Service issued flash flood watches for parts of four states in the Southwest for late Monday and Tuesday. Areas covered by watches due to what the weather service’s Las Vegas office calls...
EEOC Hits California Grocer With Suit for Firing Employee over Medical Leave Request
Oct 1 2018 // California grocery outlet, PAQ Inc., dba Rancho San Miguel Market, violated federal law when it fired a deli clerk after she requested an accommodation for a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Pacific Health Care in California Begins Strategic Acquisition Search
Oct 1 2018 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Pacific Health Care Organization Inc. in late September announced the launch of a strategic acquisition search for an insurance company to add to its suite of comprehensive workers’ comp...
EEOC Sues Del Taco in California for Sexual Harassment, Retaliation
Oct 1 2018 // Fast food chain Del Taco violated federal law when at least three male employees, including those in supervisory roles, sexually harassed and retaliated against a group of young female workers at a Rancho Cucamonga,...
