July 17, 2019
The publisher of a neo-Nazi website should have to pay the victim of an internet trolling campaign over $14 million and remove all posts that encouraged his readers to contact the Montana real estate agent, a magistrate judge recommended on …
July 17, 2019
Eleven people suffered mostly minor injuries when a roof collapsed Monday at a Los Angeles area casino, raining debris into the lobby area, authorities said. The Los Angeles County Fire Department received multiple calls following the collapse around 10 a.m. …
July 17, 2019
Toyota has been ordered to pay nearly $16 million to a Southern California dealer who alleged the company’s Prius recalls didn’t fix safety problems. The Los Angeles Times says an Orange County jury decided Monday that Toyota had breached “good …
July 16, 2019
EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has added Luke Aschermann as a client manager, Norma Brehm as a property/casualty claims manager and Belinda Lopes as a principal/senior client advocate. All join EPIC in Phoenix, Ariz. from Willis Towers Watson. They will …
July 16, 2019
Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to pay $10 million to 30 states following an investigation into a data breach that exposed confidential information on more than 10 million people across the country. …
July 16, 2019
California regulators say Chevron has not done enough to stop a massive oil spill that dumped about 800,000 gallons of crude oil and water into a Kern County canyon, and they want the company to take further action to halt …
July 16, 2019
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. will cut its rates in Hawaii for the third time in two years, the company announced. As a result, its overall personal auto rate will drop by 2.6 percent. The total state-wide expected impact …
July 16, 2019
Integrated Specialty Coverages has acquired Carlsbad, Calif.-based Safebuilt Insurance Services and all of its affiliates. ISC is sponsored by an investment vehicle managed by Two Sigma’s Sightway Capital. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ISC was formerly known as …
July 15, 2019
Two earthquakes shook the Puget Sound region in Washington state early Friday morning, with the temblors felt into British Columbia and across the Cascade Mountains into the eastern part of the state. There were no immediate reports of damage or …
July 15, 2019
Few Nevada residents and businesses have earthquake coverage, but insurance officials said they are expecting interest to increase after the two California earthquakes that rattled the region. The magnitude 6.4 and magnitude 7.1 quakes in the Southern California desert last …