California’s insurance challenges have roots going back decades. Yet they’ve come to the fore in the past five years, during which the five largest wildfires in the state’s history have occurred, according to Cal Fire.

Waves are getting bigger and surf at least 13 feet (about 4 meters) tall is becoming more common off California’s coast as the planet warms, according to innovative new research that tracked the increasing height from historical data gathered over the past 90 years.

California’s privacy regulator said Monday it will be reviewing the data privacy practices of connected car manufacturers.

A brokerage leader has slammed California’s insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, for the worsening property insurance crisis in the state, saying over-regulation is contributing to increasing rates and carrier pullouts.

Cigna is facing a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of employing an algorithm to review and reject hundreds of thousands of patient health insurance claims, with minimal individual doctor oversight.

When a federal district court denies a motion to compel arbitration, the losing party has a statutory right to an interlocutory appeal. In the case of Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski, 22-105 (June 23, 2023), the Supreme Court of the United States considered the sole question of whether the district court must stay its proceedings while the interlocutory appeal is ongoing.

Farmers Insurance has become the latest company to restrict new homeowner policies in California due to soaring inflation and a surge in severe weather events, which have escalated business expenses. The decision, effective as of July 3, applies to new policies only.

Three people were killed, and another was seriously injured after a single-vehicle crash that caused the car to burst into flames in the parking lot of an elementary school Saturday night in Murrieta, authorities announced.

A terrifying incident unfolded in Los Angeles County over the weekend as a major landslide caused the foundations of a dozen homes to shift, endangering the lives of residents and leaving the houses on the brink of collapse.

A California Court of Appeal decision in April could change the landscape for those defending bodily injury claims, potentially preventing defendants from obtaining the mental examinations that they are entitled to as a matter of law.

Citing a communicable disease coverage extension, a California state appeals court overturned a lower court Thursday and ruled that a restaurant group was entitled to insurance coverage from an Allianz SE unit for its COVID-19-related business interruption losses.

More than $950 million in lightning-caused U.S. homeowners insurance claims were paid out in 2022 to 62,000-plus policyholders, with $125 million of the total attributable to California alone, according to the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I.).

As property insurers flee California, a state riven by billion-dollar wildfires, mudslides, and the ever-present threat of a catastrophic earthquake, state lawmakers on Wednesday will take up the complex but necessary issue of how to convince the carriers to stay.

A California jury has returned a $63 million verdict against Chevron after finding the oil giant covered up a toxic chemical pit on land purchased by a man who built a house on it and was later diagnosed with a blood cancer.

The idea has been floated for years, and it may seem straightforward enough: if gun owners were required to purchase liability insurance, proponents argue, they would have to follow safe practices to limit their financial and legal risk, thus reducing incidents of gun violence.