Latest California Headlines
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California Insurance Agent Sentenced in Burial Policy Scheme
Jan 26 2022 // Saul Hinojosa, 48, of Calipatria, California, was sentenced to one felony count of identity theft and one felony count of grand theft after stealing his clients’ identities to write fraudulent insurance policies to...
California City Votes to Require Gun Liability Insurance
Jan 26 2022 // The city council in San Jose, California, voted on Tuesday to become the nation’s first city to require gun owners to purchase insurance coverage. Funds from an accompanying annual fee of $25 will go toward reducing...
Wildfire on California Coast Now 45% Contained
Jan 25 2022 // Shifting winds and increased humidity helped firefighters make progress against a blaze burning in rugged mountains near California’s Big Sur coast, authorities said. The Colorado Fire was 45% contained on Tuesday,...
California Bill Would Require Insurers to Disclose Fossil Fuel Dealings
Jan 25 2022 // California Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-Marin County) on Tuesday introduced a bill to require insurance companies operating in California to disclose investments in fossil fuel-related entities as well as the fossil...
Mother Says California Teachers Manipulated Child to Change Gender Identity
Jan 25 2022 // A mother who claims teachers secretly manipulated her 11-year-old daughter into changing her gender identity and name has filed a legal case against a tiny California school district. Spreckels Union School District was...
California Utility’s Criminal Probation Ending Amid Ongoing Safety Worries
Jan 25 2022 // Pacific Gas & Electric is poised to emerge from five years of criminal probation, despite worries that nation’s largest utility remains too dangerous to trust after years of devastation from wildfires ignited by...
Hundreds Evacuated as Crews Battle California Wildfire
Jan 24 2022 // Hundreds of residents remained evacuated Sunday as crews battled a wildfire in rugged mountains along the California coast that forced the closure of the main roadway near Big Sur. One structure, a yurt, was destroyed by...
PG&E Blamed for Dixie Fire in Northern California
Jan 24 2022 // Pacific Gas & Electric power lines sparked last summer’s Dixie Fire in Northern California that swept through five counties and burned more than 1,300 homes and other buildings, state fire officials said. The...
New Safety Rules After Deadly California Dive Boat Accident
Jan 24 2022 // The Coast Guard has announced new safety rules following the deadly blaze that killed dozens of people on a scuba diving boat off the California coast more than two years ago. The Labor Day 2019 fire that killed 34 people...
Judge Tosses California Lawsuit of Man Who Was Nude Baby on Album Cover
Jan 24 2022 // A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit of a 30-year-old man who alleged that the image of him nude as a 4-month-old on the 1991 cover of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album is child pornography. Judge Fernando...
California Commissioner OKs FAIR Plan Coverage Options for Farms and Ag Businesses
Jan 21 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Friday approved the FAIR Plan to offer new commercial coverage for farm structure risks starting Feb. 1. The FAIR Plan is an association made up of all admitted insurance...
Cause of Death Released for Mother, Son Fall at Petco Park in California
Jan 21 2022 // San Diego police have determined the causes of death of a 40-year-old woman and her 2-year-old son who plunged from the third level of San Diego’s Petco Park, just as thousands of baseball fans were heading inside...
School District in California to Pay $14.7M in Teacher Sex Abuse Case
Jan 21 2022 // The Los Angeles Unified School District agreed to pay $14.7 million to seven former students at an elementary school who claim their teacher sexually abused them several years ago. Rene Tenas, who taught fourth grade at...
Former California Insurance Agent Sentenced in Theft and Embezzlement Scheme
Jan 21 2022 // Former insurance agent Blanca Lidia Guzman, 40, of Palmdale, California, was sentenced in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday on one felony count of grand theft after pleading no contest for defrauding...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Virus Claims Spiked During December Surge
Jan 19 2022 // California workers’ compensation COVID-19 claim volume continues to track with the state’s fluctuating infection trends, as the latest monthly count of COVID workers’ comp claims jumped 172% in December...
Former California Officer Pleads No Contest to Insurance Fraud
Jan 18 2022 // A retired San Jose Police officer who owns a security business pleaded no contest to insurance fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, and worker exploitation and is expected to be sentenced to three years in jail,...
Children of Dead Sex Abuse Victim Sue Under New California Law
Jan 14 2022 // After decades of dealing with the boyhood trauma of being molested by a priest, Jim Bartko sued the Roman Catholic church two years ago under. But the lawsuit was dismissed when he died four days after speaking publicly...
Firing Upheld for California Cops Who Played Video Game During Holdup
Jan 14 2022 // A California appellate court has ruled that two Los Angeles police officers were properly fired for playing Pokemon Go instead of responding to a robbery. The court ruled last week that the LAPD was justified in firing...
People Moves: K2 in California Moves Farrell to Primary Leadership; CLARA Analytics Names Jones Chief Marketing Officer
Jan 14 2022 // K2 Insurance Services announced that Partners General Insurance Agency President Tom Farrell has taken over the primary leadership function. Farrell joined K2 in 2019. He was promoted to president in 2021. PGIA joined the...
California DMV Reevaluating Approach to Regulating Tesla’s Public Self-Driving Test
Jan 13 2022 // California is reevaluating Tesla Inc’s Full Self-Driving test program, to determine if the electric-car maker’s software should fall under its motor vehicle department’s autonomous vehicle regulations,...
