Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jury Awards $10M to Family of Teen Who Died at California Facility
Jul 22 2015 // The family of a teenage boy who died at a Mission Viejo care facility has been awarded more than $10 million for damages relating to the boy’s death. The Orange County Register reported that 15-year-old Kevin Barr...
Alliant Acquires Garibaldi in Central California
Jul 22 2015 // Alliant Insurance Services has acquired Todd Garibaldi Insurance Agency Inc. in Lodi, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Garibaldi will join Alliant as senior vice president in agribusiness and food services....
Gullickson to Head Western Growers Insurance Services in California
Jul 22 2015 // Jeffrey Gullickson will head Western Growers Insurance Services. Gullickson was named senior vice president of the firm, and assumes responsibility for its production, account management and support teams at its Irvine,...
California Judge Orders Kaiser to Broaden Reconstructive Surgery Coverage
Jul 21 2015 // A California judge has ruled that Kaiser Permanente cannot systematically classify removal of excess skin following bariatric weight loss surgery as a cosmetic procedure after a trial in a class action case. The trial...
California Storms Collapse Bridge, Snarling Traffic
Jul 21 2015 // All traffic along a major freeway connecting California and Arizona was blocked indefinitely when a bridge over a desert wash collapsed during heavy rain, and the roadway in the opposite direction suffered severe damage,...
Small Earthquake Strikes Northern California over Weekend
Jul 20 2015 // A small earthquake has struck near the mountain town of Truckee in Northern California. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-3.5 quake occurred about 6:36 p.m. Saturday. The epicenter was 9 miles northwest of...
$3.7M Award for California Rite Aid Manager in Robbery Injury Suit
Jul 20 2015 // A jury has awarded $3.7 million to the former manager of a Los Angeles Rite Aid store, who claimed supervisors harassed him after he hurt himself trying to stop a robbery. City News Service says the ruling came last week...
Judge in California Says Uber Must Face Taxi Suit over Safety Claims
Jul 20 2015 // Uber Technologies Inc. lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over its claims to being safer than taxis. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco on Friday allowed the case to proceed, finding that the app-based ridesharing...
Judge Finds Injuries ‘Part of Soccer’ in Dismissing Concussion Lawsuits
Jul 20 2015 // A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit by soccer players and parents seeking to force FIFA and other governing bodies to change the sport’s rules to limit the risk of concussions and other head injuries, especially for...
California Agents Get Creative to Sell Rideshare Endorsement
Jul 20 2015 // Kathy Lamm, an insurance agent in Costa Mesa, Calif., over the past month or two has been busy selling a ridesharing endorsement that Farmers Insurance Group introduced in California in late May. Lamm started spreading the...
California Insurance Guarantee Association in Whistleblowing Suit
Jul 20 2015 // Danny Ly, the former controller for the California Insurance Guarantee Association, has filed a lawsuit against the association that charges it fired him after he blew the whistle about alleged financial irregularities,...
Small Number Causing California Workers’ Comp Review Excess
Jul 20 2015 // A small number of physicians are responsible for a large portion of the independent medical review of workers’ compensation cases in California, a process that could be costing payers in excess of $100 million, a...
Declarations
Jul 20 2015 // Uncommon Occurrence “It’s been about 10 years since we’ve had one of these so it’s not an everyday occurrence.” — Emerald Isle, N.C., Fire Chief Bill Walker, after a deck collapsed from...
San Andreas Movie: Facts Within Fiction
Jul 20 2015 // Released in late spring 2015, the movie San Andreas tells the story of massive earthquakes devastating California as a helicopter pilot and his (formerly estranged) wife try to find and rescue their daughter. Having...
Water District in California Oks Actor Tom Selleck’s Settlement Offer
Jul 17 2015 // A California water district has accepted Tom Selleck’s offer of more than $21,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused the actor of taking water he wasn’t entitled to for his 60-acre ranch. Directors of the...
Thousands Still Powerless in Southern California City
Jul 17 2015 // Commuters dealt with dead traffic signals and several businesses were forced to remain closed as crews worked to restore power to thousands in downtown Long Beach, Calif. following three separate fires in underground...
California Judge Rules Apple Workers Can Sue as a Class Over Searches
Jul 17 2015 // For California workers seeking to be paid for time spent getting bags searched after their shifts end, state law may provide the remedy that federal law doesn’t. On Thursday, a judge in San Francisco said that Apple...
California’s COIN Program Generates “Tens of Millions” in Community Funds
Jul 16 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Thursday paid homage to the insurance industry for “tens of millions” of charitable dollars that came from the insurance industry as part of the California...
California BOE to Accept Cash From Medical Marijuana Operators
Jul 16 2015 // Medical cannabis business owners may pay their tax liability to the California State Board of Equalization in cash. The payers need to secure a seller’s permit from the BOE and submit a written request. BOE district...
California Judge Rejects Lawsuit Claiming Google Privacy Violations
Jul 16 2015 // Google Inc. users were blocked from suing over alleged privacy violations by a judge who said they failed to show any of their information had been disclosed. It was the fourth time U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal...
