Latest California Headlines
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Newfront and ABD Insurance in California Agree to Merge
Jul 15 2021 // California companies Newfront Insurance and ABD Insurance and Financial Services have entered into an agreement to combine. The merger values the combined company, which will be called Newfront, at $1.35 billion and is...
California Pension Fund Agrees to $2.7B Lawsuit Deal
Jul 15 2021 // The nation’s largest public pension fund has agreed to pay up to $2.7 billion to refund policyholders hit with huge hikes in their premiums, it was announced Tuesday. The California Public Employees’ Retirement...
People Moves: Burnham in California Names Jacques Vice President; AMERIND Names Dahl COO
Jul 15 2021 // Burnham Risk and Insurance Solutions LLC has added vice president Ryan Jacques to advance the firm’s property/casualty footprint in the public sector industry. Jacques has 28 years of experience across multiple...
California Lawsuits Say Pesticide Caused Kids’ Brain Damage
Jul 14 2021 // Lawsuits filed in California seek potential class-action damages from Dow Chemical and its successor company over a widely used bug killer linked to brain damage in children. Chlorpyrifos is approved for use on more than...
Admitted FAIR Plan Alternative Actively Writing Business Throughout California
Jul 13 2021 // Are you tired of working with the market of last resort? San Diego, CA First Cap Property Insurance Solutions has announced a new admitted Dwelling Fire program for California residential risks. The program is designed to...
Aftershocks From M6 Earthquake Rattle California, Nevada
Jul 12 2021 // Aftershocks have hit the region between Northern California and Nevada Friday after a magnitude 6 earthquake sent large boulders rolling into highways and knocked smaller items off shelves. The quake shortly before 4 p.m....
Cardinal Health, AppleOne Settle California Harassment and Retaliation Suit for $1.45M
Jul 9 2021 // Global health care services and products company Cardinal Health will pay $1.45 million to resolve a racial harassment and retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
California Seeing More Wildfires So Far Than in Disastrous 2020
Jul 9 2021 // The number of wildfires and amount of land burned in parched California so far this year greatly exceed totals for the same period in the disastrous wildfire year of 2020. Between Jan. 1 and July 4, there were 4,599 fires...
Obsidian Acquires Western Home Insurance in California
Jul 9 2021 // Obsidian Insurance Holdings Inc. has acquired Western Home Insurance Co. from Western National Mutual Insurance Co. The acquisition supports the company’s growth plans and together with Obsidian’s existing...
California Insurance Company Pressing for its ‘Day in Court’
Jul 8 2021 // U.S. District Court Judge William B. Shubb granted the motion by the California Department of Insurance to dismiss the lawsuit filed by California Insurance Co. against the CDI. Shubb acted in a manner consistent with his...
California Drivers Charged After Text Messages Detail Alleged Fraud Scheme
Jul 8 2021 // Maricela Pantjoa Vidrio, 31, of Fairfield, Calif., and Areshma Kiran, 35, of Sacramento, Calif., were charged on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly conspiring to misrepresent the facts following an...
Record Closed on California Workers’ Comp Pure Premium Rate Filing
Jul 7 2021 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California wrapped up testimony on Wednesday at a California Department of Insurance public hearing regarding the WCIRB’s Sept. 1, 2021 pure premium rate...
California’s Coming Wildfire Season Points to Potential Non-Renewals Ahead for Homeowners
Jul 6 2021 // By all accounts the California wildfire season continues to shape up to be a bad one, and another catastrophe modeling firm has reported sales of their products picking up due in part to carriers and reinsurers looking for...
Containment of Northern California Wildfires Grows, Wind a Concern
Jul 6 2021 // Containment of three big wildfires in Northern California has increased but potential for a new round of winds this week was a concern, authorities said Monday. Containment of the 39-square-mile Lava Fire at the foot of...
Grim California Wildfire Outlook Has Insurers Forking Over Big Bucks for Modeling
Jul 5 2021 // Severe drought and searing temperatures are not the only proof that Californians should be worried about wildfires this year. A glaring piece of evidence that there’s ample cause for concern is this: those who will...
PG&E in California Seeks $3.6B in Rate Hikes for Wildfire Safety
Jul 2 2021 // Pacific Gas & Electric asked regulators Wednesday to grant a $3.6 billion rate hike to help it pay for hardening its power systems to prevent deadly wildfires. The nation’s largest electric utility requested the...
California Firefighters Battling Growing Wildfires
Jul 1 2021 // Hundreds of firefighters labored this week in high heat on the lines of big wildfires in the forests of far northern California as many communities remained under lengthening evacuation orders. Mount Shasta, the volcano...
California City is Requiring Gun Owners to Carry Liability Insurance
Jul 1 2021 // San Jose, Calif., officials have passed a new law that requires gun owners to carry liability insurance and pay a fee to cover taxpayers’ costs associated with gun violence. The law is the first in the U.S. and was...
California Advances Decriminalizing Psychedelic Substances
Jul 1 2021 // California this week moved another step closer to decriminalizing psychedelics – amid a debate over whether their prohibition is an outdated remnant of the War on Drugs – after the author removed a substance from the...
Northern California Wildfire Forces Evacuation Orders
Jun 30 2021 // A wildfire in Northern California has grown significantly and begun to pose a threat communities. The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office issued evacuation orders Monday for the Lake Shastina and Juniper Valley...
