Latest California Headlines
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WIAA, PIIB Join Forces to Create Large California P/C Agents Group
Jul 21 2022 // The Western Insurance Agents Association and the Pacific Interstate Insurance Brokers have joined forces. The board of directors of PIIB, based on El Dorado Hills, California, voted to affiliate all its agency-cluster...
California Social Media Addiction Bill Drops Parent Lawsuits
Jul 20 2022 // A first-of-its-kind proposal in the California Legislature aimed at holding social media companies responsible for harming children who have become addicted to their products would no longer let parents sue popular...
California Insurance Commissioner Leaves Workers’ Comp Benchmark Rate
Jul 19 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Tuesday adopted and issued a rate for workers’ compensation insurance pure premium that he said reflects California’s still-recovering economy. Lara’s...
Wildfire Threat Becomes Tool to Fight California Home Builders
Jul 18 2022 // Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural, chaparral-lined hills of San Diego County. He’s lived there for 21 years and evacuated twice. That’s why he fiercely opposed a plan...
California Surplus Lines Association Lowering Stamping Fee
Jul 18 2022 // The Surplus Line Association of California board voted to drop the association’s stamping fee to 0.18%. Effective Jan. 1, 2023, the stamping fee will adjust downward from its current 0.25% level that took effect on...
California County Paying $8.1M for Unarmed Man’s Death
Jul 18 2022 // San Diego County will pay $8.1 million to the family of an unarmed man who was shot in the back by a sheriff’s deputy after he jumped out of a patrol car. The county and the family of Nicholas Bils agreed to settle a...
Report: Sharp Increase in California Workers’ Comp Med-Legal Costs
Jul 18 2022 // Payments for medical-legal services used to resolve medical disputes over compensability issues in California work injury claims have risen sharply under the new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule that took effect last year, a new...
Cyber Experts Say California Lacked Safeguards for Gun Owner Data
Jul 18 2022 // Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners. The...
California Insurer’s Efforts to Keep Workers and Help During Pandemic Led to Viable New Business
Jul 18 2022 // In the annals of how the pandemic changed things, toss in a positive tale from insurer CSAA Insurance Group. Walnut Creek, California-based CSAA, a AAA Insurer, offers automobile, homeowners and other personal lines of...
PCF Acquires Andreini & Company in California
Jul 13 2022 // PCF Insurance Services acquired Andreini & Company in San Mateo, California. Andreini & Company specializes in industry niches such as agriculture, aviation, transportation, oil & gas and equine mortality. The...
California Firefighters Making Gains in Yosemite Wildfire
Jul 12 2022 // California firefighters were gaining ground in the battle against a wildfire that poses a threat to a grove of giant sequoias and a small community in Yosemite National Park. The Washburn Fire on the western flank of the...
California Insurance Commissioner Issues Year Moratorium on Cancellations, Non-Renewals Following Wildfires
Jul 12 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara ordered insurance companies to preserve residential insurance coverage for more than 85,000 policyholders affected by fires in Santa Barbara County and Monterey County after...
Actress Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud in California
Jul 12 2022 // Q’Orianka Kilcher, 32, of North Hollywood, has been charged with two felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. An investigation by the California Department of Insurance reportedly found Kilcher...
Yosemite Wildfire Growing as California’s Wildfire Season Develops
Jul 11 2022 // A wildfire threatening the largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park more than doubled in size in a day, and firefighters were working in difficult terrain Sunday to protect the iconic trees and a small...
California Throws 70K Truckers in Gig-Work Legal Limbo, Risking Supply Chains
Jul 11 2022 // About 70,000 truck owner-operators who form the bedrock of California’s transport industry are in limbo as state-level labor rules start applying to them, creating another choke point in stressed US supply...
Agency Probing Self-Driving Cruise Car Crash In California
Jul 11 2022 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a special investigation into a recent crash of a Cruise self-driving vehicle in California that resulted in minor injuries, the agency said on Thursday. The...
Woman Sentenced to 8 Years in California Medical Fraud Insurance Billing Scheme
Jul 8 2022 // A former Southern California woman who, along with her doctor husband, billed insurers $44 million for unnecessary cosmetic surgeries was sentenced to eight years in federal prison. Linda Morrow, 70, also was ordered to...
Favorable Weather Aids in Fight Against California Wildfire
Jul 7 2022 // Favorable weather early Wednesday aided the fight against a wildfire in California’s Gold Country that has forced evacuations in two counties. The Electra Fire had burned 6.4 square miles of rural terrain but it was...
9-Year-Old Injured in Northern California Train Crash Dies
Jul 7 2022 // A 9-year-old boy who was badly injured in a Northern California commuter train crash that killed three other people has died, according to a GoFundMe page set up for his family. Julien Nieves of Dixon died this week of...
Foster & Foster Acquires Bartel Associates in California
Jul 6 2022 // Foster & Foster Consulting Actuaries Inc. has completed its acquisition of California-based Bartel Associates LLC. Bartel’s core business is focused in performing Other Postemployment Benefits consulting. Bartel...
