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...
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...
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...
Massive California Blazes, And It’s Not Even Official Wildfire Season Yet September 16, 2015 By Don Jergler A pair of massive blazes in the Northern California are a bleak reminder of how bad things can get in...
Suit Filed after California Woman Dies from Tainted Cucumbers September 16, 2015 A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a San Diego woman who died after eating Salmonella-tainted cucumbers....
Forrest Service Maps Shows Expansion of WUI in West as Wildfires Burn September 16, 2015 A new U.S. Forest Service report shows the continued expansion of housing development near forests, an area referred to as...