Farmers Group, Inc. California Layoffs 2025: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Farmers Group, Inc. reported them to the state. The EDD publishes every notice, and these figures come from the state's report as retrieved on Sep 10, 2026.

How much notice the law requires

California's WARN Act requires 60 days of advance written notice before a covered mass layoff, and its only statutory exception is a physical calamity or an act of war — far narrower than federal law's three. Who is covered and how the thresholds are counted is in our California WARN Act guide.

Farmers Group severance: what to check before you sign

A severance offer is not the notice pay the WARN Act describes. Severance you were already promised — in a contract, a handbook, or a union agreement — cannot be used to satisfy that obligation, though Labor Code section 1402 does let an employer reduce a back-pay award by voluntary payments it was never required to make. A release may also give up more than you expect. Justin reviews severance agreements before workers sign. What to check before you decide is in our full guide to the California WARN Act.

Two things worth doing this week either way. File for unemployment now — WARN money does not reduce it, and the filings here run through Oct 20, 2025, so you do not have to wait for your last day. And keep every document, including the notice itself and anything showing when it arrived.

Questions people are asking

Where a layoff can raise a legal question

A layoff is lawful on its own, and nothing below is a statement about Farmers Group. These are the places California law can still come into play, depending on the facts of your own situation.

• The severance you were asked to signA release can give up claims you did not know you had, and the terms are sometimes negotiable.
• How you were selectedA reduction in force still cannot be used to cut someone for a protected reason such as age, disability, pregnancy, or a complaint they made.
• Your final paycheckCalifornia sets when final wages are due at termination, and unpaid time or accrued vacation can carry penalties on top of the wages.

General information about California law, not legal advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship.

What has been reported

Press coverage of this layoff, summarized and attributed. This is reporting rather than the filing itself, and we did not independently verify it.

Repairer Driven News reported that Farmers Insurance plans to lay off 63 employees in Los Angeles County effective October 20, according to a WARN notice processed by the state on August 21. The notice did not specify the affected positions, labeling the layoffs as being in finance and insurance.

Insurance Business placed the cuts in the context of a volatile insurance labor market — the sector lost 5,500 jobs in August after gaining 7,500 in July — with observers describing the move as a reallocation toward customer-facing and data-driven roles rather than a broad retrenchment.

Sources: Repairer Driven News (opens in a new tab) · Insurance Business (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The 63 affected positions are in Woodland Hills.
• They cover 2 separate addresses rather than a single site, so co-workers at different locations may have received different dates.
• The shortest gap between notice and last day here is 62 days, close to the statewide median of 61 days across every notice on file.
• The 63 workers leaving Farmers Group, Inc. re-enter a job market where Los Angeles County unemployment stood at 5.3% in June 2026, above the 5.2% statewide rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted).
• All 2 notices are dated within a single month, August 2025, which reads as one event reported site by site rather than a rolling reduction.

These are counts and comparisons drawn from the published filings, not findings about Farmers Group.

Free job-search help near Woodland Hills

America's Job Center of California is the state's no-cost network for laid-off workers: help filing and keeping unemployment benefits, federally funded retraining, and résumé and interview coaching. Your WARN notice may name one; this is the closest to the site in these filings.

• South Valley WorkSource Center

  20920 Warner Center Lane, Woodland Hills, CA 91367 · 818-237-9099

  Affiliate center (partial services) · about 1 mile from the Woodland Hills site

Locations and hours change — confirm before visiting, or find another center with the EDD's center locator (opens in a new tab). Directory: U.S. Department of Labor, Jul 31, 2026; distances are straight-line from the address in the filing.

Other layoffs filed in Los Angeles County around the same time

166 employers have WARN notices on file in Los Angeles County, covering 19,350 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Amazon7,123 workers
• Meta Platforms, Inc.4,150 workers
• Republic National Distributing Company1,756 workers
• Oracle America, Inc.1,250 workers
• University of Southern California1,022 workers
• Adventist Health614 workers

Listed because they appear in the same county in the same public data. No connection between these employers is implied.

California wage claims filed against Farmers Group

California employers face claims under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), which lets an employee sue for civil penalties over Labor Code violations on behalf of the state. The state publishes every filing. 2 PAGA cases naming this employer are on that record, including the settlements below.

These are outcomes in other people’s cases, obtained by other lawyers, taken from the state’s public filing record. They are not results of this firm, and past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. What any individual recovers depends on their own hours, pay records, and dates.

• Proposed settlement · 2026

  $2,200,000

  Current and former hourly or non-exempt employees of Farmers Insurance Exchange in California allege they were not paid for all hours worked, including off-the-clock work, missed meal and rest breaks, and unreimbursed business expenses. They also allege they were not paid proper minimum and overtime wages, reporting time pay, and that the employer made unlawful deductions through an Awards Points program. The filing seeks preliminary approval of a proposed settlement to resolve these claims without admission of liability.

  Covered all current and former hourly or non-exempt employees of Defendant Farmers Insurance Exchange in California at any time during the Class Period. The settlement resolved class claims as well as PAGA penalties.

  Employees covered

  1,236

  Attorneys' fees

  $733,333

  To the state (LWDA)

  $75,000

  Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles · 22STCV35492 · Farmers Group denied liability; a settlement is not an admission.

A PAGA case is not a class action, and there is nothing to opt out of. A PAGA settlement resolves civil penalties owed to the state — most of which the state keeps — and it does not necessarily resolve your own unpaid wages, missed break premiums, or final-paycheck penalties. If you worked here and were not paid correctly, that is a separate question worth asking about. How California wage claims work.