Applied Underwriters, an insurer owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, has agreed to a workers compensation insurance case settlement. The agreement involves providing Californian consumers with full disclosure about the product.

A group of professional interpreters in California has intensified its fight against a provision in the state’s Labor Code that allows insurance companies or even doctors, lawyers, and judges to tap the services of “provisionally certified interpreters” if certified legal and medical interpreters are not available.

Firefighters were investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed three structures in the Agua Dulce area of Santa Clarita Monday morning.

A Palm Springs home caught fire Wednesday afternoon, leading authorities to shut down local roadways as crews battled the blaze. Three people in the house were displaced from the home, including an elderly cancer patient would was pulled out by a relative.

The California auto insurance industry may soon be changing the way its rates are calculated in order to reduce discrimination against drivers from minority neighborhoods. The California Department of Insurance launched an investigation into the practices of eight auto policy providers in the state.

Fire crews are investigating a Tanker explosion in Atwater near Highway 99 that killed one person. About 200 people in the area were evacuated.

One person has died of botulism after eating nacho cheese sauce from a Walnut Grove gas station, California health officials confirmed Monday.

An Aeromexico passenger jet collided with a utility truck on a taxiway of Los Angeles International Airport shortly after landing on Saturday, injuring eight employees who were aboard the truck, but no one on the plane was hurt, authorities said.

Motorcycle thefts are on the rise, and California, for the second year in a row, is the top state for stolen bikes. The annual theft report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau shows bike thefts rose 2% nationally in 2016.

Allstate has told collision repairers it will cease using its drive-in inspection stations in favor of its QuickFoto Claim photo estimating system within the Allstate app.

The federal government sued UnitedHealth Group on Tuesday alleging the Minnetonka-based health care company wrongly received from Medicare at least $1 billion in “risk adjustment” payments based on inaccurate data submissions.

A fire broke out Wednesday at a multi-story apartment building under construction in Pomona and no injuries were reported. The blaze was reported at 5:48 p.m. in the area of East Holt and North East End avenues, according to a Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatcher.

A fire that burned three cars at an auto body shop in South Los Angeles early Tuesday is being investigated as arson because of an apparent threat painted on the business, authorities said.

Self-titled “Rehab Mogul” Christopher Bathum will stand trial on charges of fraudulently billing companies $176 million, one of the largest criminal cases against an addiction facility in state history, a judge ruled Tuesday.

A flaming cocktail from a San Simeon restaurant sent a Southern California man to the hospital with severe burns to his face and neck, according to a lawsuit filed last month.