It took San Jose and mutual aid firefighters more than six hours to get a San Jose Home Depot fire under control just before midnight on Sunday -- at its peak 110 crews were battling the 5-alarm blaze.

A 6-year-old boy suffered a fractured skull and brain damage when he was accidentally hit by a baseball thrown by a Los Angeles Angels player who was warming up before a 2019 game, according to a lawsuit announced Thursday that blames the injury on the team’s negligence.

An insurer is not obligated to defend or indemnify a landscaping company for a catastrophic landslide that occurred at homeowners’ properties under a policy exclusion, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in affirming a lower court ruling.

A $38.5 million settlement has been reached between the builders of a bridge over the 91 Freeway in Corona and nine workers injured when part of the structure collapsed in 2015.

A lawsuit filed in California on Friday against Tesla by a former manager alleges whistleblowing retaliation, wrongful termination, racial discrimination, and more following many attempts to notify managers and higher-ups of safety violations.

As an insurance crisis persists in California wildfire country, state regulators are preparing to order companies to offer discounts to homeowners who install double-pane windows, fire-safe roofs or take other steps to reduce the danger to properties.

The prose in the Feb. 2 New York Times article was breathless. Feral pigs in the San Francisco Bay Area are tearing up lawns and ripping their way through golf course fairways. One biologist characterized the pig incursions as a ‘feral swine bomb.’ Wow. Sounds heavy.

California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing is suing Elon Musk’s company Tesla over racism and harassment toward Black employees at Tesla’s plant in Fremont, Calif., according to a lawsuit filed by the state this week. The company has called the lawsuit "unfair."

A pair of unusual winter wildfires in Southern California on Thursday burned several homes, spurred evacuations and closed a portion of the iconic Pacific Coast Highway. The two fires, one near Los Angeles and the other farther south near Laguna Beach, spread amid fierce winds, along with a continued drought and weather conditions that felt more like summer than winter, furthering fears that fire has become a year-round threat in the state.

A Tesla Model 3 crash that killed a woman was allegedly caused by failures of the Autopilot system to prevent the Model 3 from slamming into the rear of a firetruck.

A federal district court in California has refused to dismiss COVID-19 business interruption coverage filed by a concert promoter against Factory Mutual Insurance Co.

Consumer Watchdog has issued a notice saying that the California Department of Insurance (CDI) has retracted its policy to delete agency email databases – days after the consumer advocate group warned the regulator that it would threaten legal action over the email disposals.

A California law passed in the late 1980s originally meant to protect consumers is under increased scrutiny for restraining the use of telematics in auto insurance underwriting.

A California city voted Tuesday night to require gun owners to carry liability insurance in what’s believed to be the first measure of its kind in the United States.



The Silicon Valley city of about 1 million followed a trend of other Democratic-led cities that have sought to rein in violence through stricter rules. But while similar laws have been proposed, San Jose is the first city to pass one, according to Brady United, a national nonprofit that advocates against gun violence.

Council members, including several who had lost friends to gun violence, said it was a step toward dealing with gun violence that Councilman Sergio Jimenez called ‘a scourge on our society."

California prosecutors have filed two counts of vehicular manslaughter against the driver of a Tesla on Autopilot who ran a red light, slammed into another car and killed two people in 2019.