‘Climate change has its fingerprints all over’ the increasingly costly wildfire activity we’ve seen in recent years, says Triple-I non-resident scholar Dr. Craig Clements, even though most fires are ignited by people.

As California lawmakers for the second year consider reducing the amount of time allowed for workers compensation claims administrators to investigate the compensability of occupational injury or illness claims, an analysis by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute shows how the changes could affect acceptance of more complex claims.

After the CZU Lightning Complex Fires ripped through the Santa Cruz Mountains in 2020, Sarah Mapel’s home was one of the few in her Boulder Creek neighborhood left standing.

An insurance company is suing actress Amber Heard on a three-pronged request: (1) that it be absolved of any duty to pay for her defense in a recent defamation case by her ex-husband Johnny Depp, (2) that it not be required to pay the multi-million dollar judgment Depp won against her, and (3) that it not have to pay any costs of ongoing litigation associated with an appeal.

An explosion leveled at least one home and damaged several others early Wednesday in Victorville. The explosion was reported just before 3 a.m. in the 14900 block of Adalane Court in Victorville. One house was completely leveled by the explosion, which also sparked a fire at the home next door and damaged several homes across the street.

Dan Nuñez pulls up a video feed on his computer. ‘Can you see that?’ he asks, pointing to some rolling, foggy hills in rural Oregon. The footage was captured seven minutes before Nuñez opened up his browser. Barely perceptible on the screen is a rising plume of smoke.

California’s top state court has agreed to decide whether employers can be held liable under state law when their workers contract COVID-19 on the job and spread it to their relatives.

A Black former worker at Tesla’s Fremont, California assembly plant has rejected a $15 million payout from the automaker in a lawsuit alleging racial abuse by co-workers.

Tesla Inc. must keep defending itself in open court against claims that female employees face ‘rampant sexual harassment’ in its largest California factory, a judge ruled, spurning the company’s request for closed-door arbitration.

The U.S. government’s road safety agency has dispatched a team to investigate the possibility that a Tesla involved in a California crash that killed three people was operating on a partially automated driving system.

Automobile collisions involving wildlife can be deeply traumatizing and costly for drivers and their passengers, but a new report from State Farm reveals just how common of an occurrence such crashes are.

A wildfire near Laguna Beach, California, has already destroyed 20 homes and will likely continue to ravage the region throughout the day.

A lawsuit filed against USAA by auto insurance policyholder Philip Johnson in California alleges the company has ‘scored a windfall’ of profit throughout the COVID-19 pandemic by continuing to ‘charge and collect excessive premiums’ in 2020 and 2021 despite fewer cars on the road resulting in a decreased number of claims.

Tesla Insurance recently announced that it has rolled out its controversial driver safety score to its customers in California, the largest market for the coverage. The score is based on real-time tracking of driver behaviors while using the vehicle.

Pacific Gas & Electric, the nation’s largest utility, has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires sparked by its aging Northern California power lines and submit to five years of oversight in an attempt to prevent more deadly blazes.