Californians Pushed by Wildfires into High-risk Insurance Market September 21, 2015 By Nichola Groom There are lots of reasons people live in California’s Modjeska Canyon. Nestled against the mountains and abutting the Cleveland National...
California Judge Slaps Down Uber Bid to Force Arbitration on Driver September 21, 2015 By Joel Rosenblatt A former Uber Technologies Inc. driver defeated the company’s bid to force her into arbitration, a second victory after California’s...
Oregon Office Building Will Give Tenants Earthquake Warning September 21, 2015 A Portland, Ore. office building will be able to warn tenants when an earthquake is about to strike. KGW-TV reported...
Wyoming Man And His Insurers to Pay $2.9M for 2012 Wildfire September 21, 2015 By Mead Gruver A man who accidentally started a 2012 wildfire that burned over a mountain and threatened the town of Jackson has...
Bloomberg View: California’s Wildfires Didn’t Have to Be So Extreme September 21, 2015 Warming temperatures and a historic drought made Northern California’s Valley fire faster to spread and harder to fight. But the...
California Wildfires Destruction Total Now Tops 1,000 Homes September 21, 2015 It has been several days since two huge wildfires in Northern California peaked in their ferocity, yet the damage they...
El Niño’s Dark Side Could Bring More Trouble to California September 18, 2015 A group of drought experts gathered in California this week, and it wasn’t long before the conversation turned to El...
Alliant in California Names Harney Senior Vice President September 18, 2015 Alliant Insurance Services has named Christopher David Harney a senior vice president in its real estate group. He will be...
Early Data on Workplace Fatalities in California Show Decline September 18, 2015 The Department of Industrial Relations has posted preliminary workplace fatality statistics for California in 2014 that show a decline. The...
Former California Insurance Agent Who Scammed Church Members Sentenced September 18, 2015 Constance Gail Fortune, 61, pleaded guilty this week to one felony count of grand theft by embezzlement and one felony...