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Jury Awards $13M to Former Patients of California Psychiatric Facility

A jury has awarded more than $13 million to three women, finding they were harmed and did not consent to sexual contact by an employee of a California psychiatric facility. The Ventura County Star reports the jury found Monday that …

UniVista Insurance Unveils West Coast Expansion Strategy

UniVista Insurance has three opened offices in California, and announced plans to launch its franchise program on the West Coast in three months. Miami-based UniVista also says it plans to open another three offices by year’s end. UniVista has 122 …

Ridgecrest Earthquakes Shake Up Californians, but How Bad Could it Be?

This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Earthquake risk in California is no secret. For years scientists have been warning the state is overdue for a large damaging event. Nearly 30 years ago, the 1989 Loma Prieta …

California Leads Nation in SMB Cyber Insurance Adoption, Report Shows

California leads the nation in small to mid-size business cyber insurance adoption, according to a report released on Tuesday by CyberPolicy. The report shows the highest annual premium in the state totaled more than $16,596, while the lowest annual premium …

Big Cannabis Bills That Await California Lawmakers Include Banking and Hemp Products

Next month could be big for California’s cannabis industry. Among legislation introduced last session by state lawmakers was a bill to enable hemp-infused food and beverages to be legally sold by licensed marijuana retailers, and a bill that would enable …

Coffee Won’t Need Cancer Warning in California

California coffee lovers can indulge their caffeine habit without worry now that the state has decided the beverage doesn’t need a cancer warning after all. That conclusion by a state regulator comes eight years after dozens of coffee roasters and …

Direct Written Premium Fell in California Workers’ Comp System in 2018

Total direct written premium in the California workers’ compensation system fell for the second consecutive year in 2018, declining 3.8 percent to less than $12.3 billion as nine of the 10 largest insurer groups in the state wrote less premium …

PG&E Behind on Tree Work in California a Month from Wildfire Season

California is just one month away from the official start of wildfire season and bankrupt utility giant PG&E Corp. is running behind on inspections, repairs and tree-trimming that was ordered up to reduce the risk of another devastating blaze. PG&E, …

Report Ranks California Top of Nation’s in Dog-Related Injury Claims

A report from carrier State Farm shows it paid $123 million dollars for 3,280 dog bite and injury claims, last year, a decrease of 9 percent compared with the number of dog bite claims in 2017 and a decrease of …

California Jury Awards $9M to Family of Woman Shot to Death

A California jury has awarded $9 million to the family of a woman fatally shot seven times by police in Long Beach in 2017 in what the family’s attorneys say is the largest such award in city history. The federal …