Louisiana and Florida area already scrambling to keep their industries alive, but is California next? As premiums have been rapidly climbing in various parts of the industry in California, experts are starting to wonder if it will be the next state facing a homeowners insurance crisis.

A federal district court has refused to dismiss COVID-19-related business interruption coverage litigation filed by a shopping mall owner against an American International Group Inc. unit, concluding that its policy’s pollution and contamination exclusion is ambiguous.

The insurance carrier for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego filed a lawsuit Friday contending that because the diocese violated the terms of its insurance policies, the company should not have to pay out any money to settle claims from hundreds of people alleging they were victims of sexual abuse by clergy over the past several decades.

Looks like some of Tesla’s shareholders are feeling betrayed by Elon Musk and his merry band of executives. Investors have filed a lawsuit accusing the company of exaggerating the capabilities of its self-driving tech and putting people’s lives at risk.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requested additional information from Tesla following a California crash on Saturday in which one of its vehicles collided with a fire truck parked at an accident scene.

As recent weather events in California demonstrate, most property owners should be doing much more to prepare for heavy rains and flooding.

Nothing is more pervasive in California’s Capitol than what have been dubbed ‘tort wars’ -- skirmishes over rules governing personal injury lawsuits. No session of the Legislature is complete without at least one clash over who can sue whom for what act and collect damages that can potentially reach hundreds of millions of dollars.

A Tesla car battery "spontaneously" burst into flames on a California freeway Saturday, and firefighters needed 6,000 gallons of water to put it out.

A Los Angeles state court on Thursday refused to grant an Allianz SE unit’s motion for summary judgment in a COVID-19-related business interruption case that was returned to a lower court after a pro-policyholder state appeals court ruling.

Moody’s RMS, the catastrophe risk modelling specialist, has estimated that the recent severe flooding in California, that was triggered by a spate of storms and atmospheric river events, could amount to as much as $1.5 billion in losses for the insurance industry.

Major auto insurers are pulling back in the California marketplace because they are saying our drivers are just too expensive to insure. Californians are driving about as much as they were before the pandemic, but apparently not as well.

A 2016 video that Tesla (TSLA.O) used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer.

Parametric flood insurer FloodFlash has announced that it has entered into the US insurance market.

Effective January 1, 2023, new rules govern pre-suit time-limited settlement demands in California. Section 999, et seq. of the California Code of Civil Procedure governs time-limited settlement offers made to a tortfeasor with liability insurance for purposes of settling the claim within the limit of insurance.

Chuck Hawley stared out at the waves swirling through Monterey Bay as he prepared to destroy the small beachfront home his parents built by hand in 1957. He had no choice: Storm-fueled waves in the region, just east of Santa Cruz, had torn the 1,100-square-foot house off its foundations and floated it 30 feet into the street.