Firefighters Injured While Fighting Montana Wildfire July 26, 2021 Five firefighters were injured when a thunderstorm and swirling winds in central Montana blew a lightning-caused wildfire back on them,...
California’s Largest Wildfire Torches Homes as Blazes Lash West July 26, 2021 Flames racing through rugged terrain in Northern California destroyed multiple homes over the weeked as the state’s largest wildfire intensified...
Fire Crews Making Progress on Massive Oregon Blaze July 23, 2021 By Nathan Howard The nation’s largest wildfire is still raging through southern Oregon but crews were scaling back some night operations as hard...
Woman Dead, 3 Missing Following Flooding in Colorado Burn Area July 23, 2021 A woman was found dead and three other people were missing after rain triggered flooding and mudslides in an area...
Officials: Lightning Likely Caused 2020 California Forest Fire July 23, 2021 A lightning strike likely ignited a 2020 wildfire in California’s Sierra National Forest, but the U.S. Forest Service said Friday...
Bomb Squad Caused Damaging California Fireworks Explosion, Officials Say July 23, 2021 By Stefanie Dazio Los Angeles bomb technicians grossly miscalculated the weight of homemade fireworks last month when they detonated them in a containment...
PG&E in California’s Will Pay to Bury Power Lines to Prevent Wildfires July 22, 2021 By Noor Zainab Hussain California power company Pacific Gas and Electric said on Wednesday it would bury 10,000 miles of power lines in high-risk...
People Moves: California Insurance Commissioner Appoints Members to CIGA, COIN Boards July 22, 2021 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara made several new appointments, including naming one member to the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan...
California Commissioner Lowers Workers’ Comp Benchmark July 21, 2021 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara lowered the workers’ compensation insurance benchmark rate by 5 cents to $1.41 per $100 of...
California Workers’ Comp Report: Private Self-Insured Indemnity Claim Frequency, Paid & Incurred Losses Spiked in 2020 July 21, 2021 Workers’ comp claim frequency among California’s private self-insured employers rose in 2020, fueled by a big increase in the incidence...