California State Senators delivered a letter to California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday, urging him to take more direct action in fixing the state’s faltering homeowners insurance market. In the past three months, 5 insurance companies operating in California...
Rideshare company Uber announced on Thursday that because of California’s high insurance rates and litigation environment, that they will no longer be hiring drivers in the state who are under 25. In recent months, Uber has been dealt several legal...
A bill to require companies provide consumers with the necessary materials to repair products that were purchased from a manufacturer received major backing from tech companies this weeks, with long-time “right-to-repair” opponent Apple now formally in favor of the legislation....
First, as much as it pains me to admit, California was not directly addressed in Wednesday night’s first GOP presidential debate. Mea culpa. Indirectly, though, the hot button issues on the agenda could all be said to have had their...
A new 52,000 IKEA store opened on Market Street in San Francisco Wednesday, becoming one of only a few major stores to open in a city where many major retailers have left in recent years. Since the beginning of the...
The Los Angeles City Council continued this week to consider banning all cashless stores, those that only accept credit cards, debit cards, and other virtual payments while not accepting cash, and forcing all business to accept cash as a payment....
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents producers and studios, unveiled their latest offer to the Writers Guild of America (WGA) on Tuesday, less than an hour following their latest meeting in Los Angeles. The WGA...