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By Dustin Gardiner, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE August 30, 2022 https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Advocates-warn-bottle-recycling-bill-could-give-17408605.php?cmpid=gsa-sfgate-result California legislators are on the verge of passing a bill to…
Aug 30, 2022
By Ethan Varian, MERCURY NEWS August 29, 2022 California homeowners could continue losing insurance as wildfire threat looms Almost a year to…
Aug 29, 2022
By Melissa Heffernan, RESOURCE RECYCLING August 29, 2022 A last-minute twist in effort to expand California bottle bill Just days before the…
Aug 29, 2022
By Stephanie Sierra, KGO ABC TV-7 San Francisco, CA August 27, 2022 https://abc7news.com/california-fair-plan-wildfire-insurance-commissioner-ricardo-lara-loophole/12173132/ SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A state regulation aimed to help…
Aug 27, 2022
By Harriet Ryan, LOS ANGELES TIMES August 24. 2022 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-24/troubled-state-bar-gives-top-official-43-000-raise The State Bar of California, under scrutiny for long-standing failures in protecting…
Aug 24, 2022
Column by Tom Elias, VENTURA COUNTY STAR August 23, 2022 https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/2022/08/23/oil-companies-gouge-us-california-sb-1322-could-bring-accountability/7865035001/ The cheating, price-gouging refiners who produce most California gasoline have won…
Aug 23, 2022
By Cari Spencer, KCET PBS-TV Southern California August 16, 2022 https://www.kcet.org/news-community/can-california-redeem-its-landfill-crisis-despite-declining-recycling-rates Last year, Californians sent 4.2 billion more cans and bottles to landfills…
Aug 16, 2022
By Andrew Sheeler, Lindsey Holden, and Stephen Hobbs, SACRAMENTO BEE – CAPITOL ALERT August 16, 2022 https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article264432901.html Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham, R-San Luis…
Aug 16, 2022
By Wes Venteicher, SACRAMENTO BEE August 15, 2022 https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article264461831.html California state agencies will be able to keep deleting emails and other documents…
Aug 15, 2022
By Lurah Lowery, REPAIRER DRIVEN NEWS August 15, 2022 CSAA sued for continuing to charge ‘excessive’ premiums throughout pandemic A class action lawsuit…
Aug 15, 2022
By Marisa Endicott, SANTA ROSA PRESS-DEMOCRAT August 13, 2022 https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/another-sonoma-county-recycling-center-is-closing-leaving-consumers-with-e/ It soon will get even harder to score a bit of extra…
Aug 13, 2022
By Staff Reporters, WORKERS COMPENSATION https://www.workerscompensation.com/news_read.php?id=41708 San Francisco,CA (WorkCompAcademy) – Suspense day” at the California Legislature on Thursday saw several key bills…
Aug 12, 2022
By Lyle Adriano, INSURANCE BUSINESS AMERICA August 11, 2022 https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/csaa-faces-lawsuit-over-claims-it-overcharged-auto-insurance-policyholders-150-million-416482.aspx A lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court claims that CSAA –…
Aug 11, 2022
By Adam Beam, ASSOCIATED PRESS August 11, 2022 https://apnews.com/article/social-media-california-legislature-f5fd4c8ac90546c506bc3a685ab58b2b California lawmakers on Thursday rejected a proposal that could have forced some popular social…
Aug 11, 2022
By Renée Kiriluk-Hill, BESTWIRE August 10. 2022 https://news.ambest.com/NewsContent.aspx?&refnum=243607 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is pumping the brakes on private passenger auto rate…
Aug 10, 2022
By Kiera Feldman, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-08-09/edison-tells-utility-customers-new-rate-plan-is-more-expensive-than-advertised As electricity bills rise with the temperature, some Southern California Edison customers are getting an…
Aug 9, 2022
By Jacklyn Will, BLOOMBERG LAW https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/cvs-units-must-face-hiv-bias-suit-over-medication-distribution HIV/AIDS patients who object to a CVS Pharmacy Inc. policy limiting where they can receive specialty medications…
Aug 8, 2022
By Patrick Hoff, LAW 360 https://www.law360.com/health/articles/1518877/cvs-can-t-escape-hiv-patients-disability-bias-suit CVS Pharmacy can’t avoid a proposed class action alleging its prescription drug benefits program discriminates against people with HIV and AIDS, as…
Aug 8, 2022