Latest California Headlines
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Hub Acquires Evo Insurance Services in California
Apr 12 2022 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of EVO Insurance Services Inc. in Chico, California. Shawn Blofsky, president & founder of EVO Insurance Services, and the EVO Insurance Services team will join Hub Central...
Fire Destroyed Northern California Home Depot Store
Apr 11 2022 // A weekend fire gutted a Home Depot store in the San Francisco Bay Area, sending up a huge plume of smoke and prompting orders for some nearby residents to shelter in place, authorities said. The five-alarm blaze in South...
Lawsuit Says Boy’s Brain Damaged by Errant Throw at California Stadium
Apr 11 2022 // A 6-year-old boy suffered a fractured skull and brain damage when he was accidentally hit by a baseball thrown by a Los Angeles Angels player who was warming up before a 2019 game, according to a lawsuit announced that...
People Moves: Island Names Bruhl Chief Investment Officer; Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance in California Adds Bogue
Apr 11 2022 // Island Holdings Inc. named Robert Bruhl chief investment officer and executive vice president. Bruhl oversees the company’s treasury portfolio and will be responsible for optimizing current investments, refining...
California Contractor Arraigned for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 11 2022 // Adan Deniz, 43, a contractor from Santa Clarita, California, was arraigned today on 21 felony counts of forgery, theft by false pretense, and workers’ compensation insurance fraud after allegedly creating fraudulent...
California Court Rules Hospitals Can Be Responsible for Abuse by Employees
Apr 8 2022 // A state appeals court ruled that a Southern California hospital can be held responsible for sexual abuse by an employee, upholding a jury’s damage award of $6.75 million to two elderly patients who were abused at a...
ALKEME Acquires ERM Insurance Brokers in California
Apr 8 2022 // ALKEME acquired ERM Insurance Brokers in Santa Ana, California. ERM specializes in Hospitality, construction, cannabis, manufacturing, woodworking, cyber and retail/wholesale. Ladera Ranch, California-based ALKEME is...
Smart & Final Paying for Egg Price Gouging in California During Pandemic
Apr 7 2022 // Grocery chain Smart & Final has agreed to pay $175,000 in penalties to resolve allegations that the grocer engaged in price gouging of certain organic and cage-free eggs at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic,...
California May Empower Citizens to Sue Over Illegal Firearms
Apr 6 2022 // For all California’s nation-leading attempts to regulate firearms, the state has not found a way to deter those happy to skirt the laws with stolen or homemade and increasingly prevalent “ghost” guns. In...
Hub Acquired Chun-Ha Insurance Services in California
Apr 4 2022 // Hub International Ltd. acquired Chun-Ha Insurance Services Inc. in Garden Grove, California, Chun-Ha Insurance is an agency serving the Korean American community, providing insurance solutions, including commercial and...
California’s Corporate Diversity Law Ruled Unconstitutional
Apr 4 2022 // A Los Angeles judge ruled that California’s landmark law mandating that corporations diversify their boards with members from certain racial, ethnic or LGBT groups is unconstitutional. The brief ruling granted...
California Drought Deepening as Wet Season is Anything But
Apr 4 2022 // California is experiencing one of the driest starts to spring in decades, data showed Friday, and absent a heavy dose of April and May showers the state’s drought will deepen and that could lead to stricter rules on...
Former Licensed California Agent Faces Insurance Fraud Charges
Apr 4 2022 // A former licensed California insurance agent has been charged with 11 felony counts including identity theft, grand theft and embezzlement after allegedly writing 162 fraudulent policies in an attempt to gain unearned...
Ballplayer Files Defamation Suit Against The Athletic in California
Apr 1 2022 // Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer sued The Athletic and former reporter Molly Knight, accusing them of “creating and spreading the false narrative” that he had fractured a woman’s skull during a...
$102M to Pay California Students Abused by Teacher
Apr 1 2022 // A jury has awarded $102.5 million to two women who sued a Northern California school district over what they said was officials’ failure to stop a middle school teacher from sexually grooming and abusing them as...
Fitch Downgrades California Earthquake Authority’s Ratings; Outlook Stable
Apr 1 2022 // Fitch Ratings downgraded California Earthquake Authority’s Issuer Default Rating and revenue bond ratings to ‘A-‘ from ‘A’. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The rating action follows the vote of...
ALKEME Acquires Snapp & Associates in California
Mar 31 2022 // ALKEME acquired Snapp & Associates Insurance Services in San Diego, California. Snapp & Associates serves a broad base of industries and has a specialty focus in risk management, insurance planning and employment...
Court Approves $18M Settlement with Activision Blizzard in California
Mar 31 2022 // U.S. District Court for the Central District of California entered the consent decree between Activision Blizzard Inc. and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which includes $18 million in monetary and...
Report from California Watchdog Group Calls for Privacy Protections from Connected Cars
Mar 30 2022 // A new report from a consumer group calls out what it says are privacy problems posed for consumers from connected cars and it points to new rules to be developed in California as a potential model across the...
California’s Largest Wildlife Crossing to Reduce Animal Collisions
Mar 30 2022 // Groundbreaking is set for next month on what’s billed as the world’s largest wildlife crossing, a bridge over a major Southern California highway that will provide more room to roam for mountain lions and other...
