Latest California Headlines
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Inszone Acquires Nam International Insurance Services in California
May 28 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services acquired Nam International Insurance Services Inc. in Fremont, California. Nam was founded in March 2003 by Parvinder Janda to serve the insurance needs of individuals and businesses in the...
California Advances Legislation Cracking Down on Auto Theft, Stolen Goods Resellers
May 24 2024 // The California Senate approved a bipartisan package of 15 bills this that would increase penalties for organized crime rings, expand drug court programs and close a legal loophole to make it easier to prosecute auto...
California Janitorial Company Owners Arraigned for $2.4M Insurance Fraud
May 24 2024 // The husband-and-wife owners of a janitorial company were arraigned on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud after an investigation allegedly found the couple underreported payroll for their company by more than $2.4...
New Cars in California Could Alert Drivers for Breaking The Speed Limit
May 23 2024 // California could eventually join the European Union in requiring all new cars to alert drivers when they break the speed limit, a proposal aimed at reducing traffic deaths that would likely impact motorists across the...
California Mushroom Farms That Were Sites of Fatal Shootings Fined $450K
May 22 2024 // The owners of two Northern California mushroom farms where a farmworker killed seven people in back-to-back shootings last year will pay more than $450,000 in back wages and damages to 62 workers, the Labor Department...
Gallagher Updates Regulation for Artificial Intelligence
May 22 2024 // Gallagher’s Cyber practice remains laser focused on emerging technology and the potential for increased risks as organizations begin to use them. Throughout 2024, we’re concentrated on evolving compliance...
US Regulator Launches Probe of VinFast Crash in California in Which Four Died
May 22 2024 // U.S. auto safety investigators said on Monday they have launched an investigation into the April crash of a VinFast 0TL.F, VFS.O VF 8 electric vehicle in Pleasanton, California, in which a family of four died. The National...
California Court to Weigh Fate of Law Treating App-Based Drivers as Contractors
May 21 2024 // California’s top state court on Tuesday will consider a labor union’s challenge to a ballot measure allowing app-based services such as Uber and Lyft to classify drivers in the state as independent contractors...
Cal/OSHA Beefing Up Safety Enforcement to Protect Workers Against Silicosis
May 21 2024 // California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health reports seeing growing number of silicosis cases among stone workers in California, and the agency is launching efforts to beef up its enforcement...
California’s Scenic Highway 1 to Big Sur Finally Opens to Around-The-Clock Travel
May 20 2024 // A section of California’s scenic Highway 1 leading to the famous Big Sur coast reopened to around-the-clock traffic Friday after stabilization of a storm-triggered rockslide that dropped a chunk of one lane into the...
Landslide Forces Closure of Iconic California Chapel
May 20 2024 // A decades-old landslide that’s rapidly accelerating has forced the dismantling of Wayfarers Chapel, an iconic Southern California church that was designed by one of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s sons and...
Business Moves
May 20 2024 // National Lancashire Insurance Lancashire Insurance, a subsidiary of Lancashire Group, has been launched as an excess and surplus insurer in the United States. Lancashire Insurance US (LUS) operates under a delegated...
My New Markets
May 20 2024 // California Workers’ Comp Program Market Detail: The FIVE100 Program is provided by CAWorkersCompensationInsurance.com. The workers’ comp program includes five unique dividend plans offering up to 40% return...
Family of California Veteran Who Died After Officer Knelt on His Neck Settles for $7.5M
May 17 2024 // Family members of a Navy veteran who died in 2020 after a police officer pressed a knee to his neck for nearly five minutes while he was in a mental health crisis have settled a federal lawsuit against the Northern...
California Trucker Death Led to Workers’ Comp Investigation That Found $2M in Underreported Payroll
May 17 2024 // An investigation began after an employee was found dead in a company owned semi-truck led to the arraignment of a California man on three felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud. Heigo Kubar, 84, of Fresno, was...
People Moves: BenefitMall Appoints Montes Broker Sales Executive for California
May 16 2024 // XavierMontes BenefitMall appointed Xavier Montes to its individual and senior division (ISD) as the new broker sales executive for California. Montes is based in Whittier, California. Montes has over 25 years of experience...
The Surprising Force Stalling Climate Progress: California Restaurants
May 15 2024 // In the fight to ratchet down climate emissions and soothe the most dangerous effects of an overheating planet, one of the most withering setbacks in recent memory wasn’t delivered by the oil industry or coal...
Farmers to Resume Offering Key Lines of Business Insurance in California
May 14 2024 // Farmers Insurance said it will resume accepting new business commercial multi-peril applications for auto service & repair, habitational, manufacturing, real estate and wholesale distribution policies in...
Tesla Settles Factory Worker’s Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
May 14 2024 // Tesla has settled a lawsuit by a former factory employee who says she was fired for complaining about severe sexual harassment, as the electric carmaker faces a series of sex and race discrimination lawsuits. U.S. District...
California Workplace Violence Law a Best Practice No Matter What State You’re in
May 14 2024 // California Senate Bill 553 is groundbreaking legislation that aims to prevent workplace violence and enhance employee safety and security in California. The law elevates California’s commitment to protecting workers,...
