SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A Democratic leader in the California Senate has unveiled a health care plan intended to provide working adults and their families with access to affordable health insurance.

Under the plan proposed Tuesday by Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, all California workers and their dependents would be covered. All employers would have a choice of either providing health insurance or contributing to a state purchasing pool called the Connector, according to a statement issued by Sen. Perata.

LONDON (Reuters)—The United States, which has emerged from this year's hurricane season largely unscathed, should brace itself for a potentially devastating hurricane season in 2007, a leading windstorm forecaster warned.

A long-range forecast for next year issued by Tropical Storm Risk, a London-based forecaster, on Thursday predicted an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season with a strong probability that more hurricanes will slam into the United States than usual, based on average figures for the period 1950 to 2006.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.—An employer whose employee sent threatening e-mail messages over the firm’s computer is immune from liability as an interactive computer service provider, says a California state appellate court.

Thursday’s unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the state appellate court in San Jose in Michelangelo Delfino et al. vs. Agilent Technologies Inc. upheld a lower court’s decision.

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WASHINGTON—Finding a long-term solution to the terrorism insurance issue is the "most urgent" matter on the American Insurance Assn.’s legislative agenda for the new Congress that convenes next month, AIA President Marc Racicot said during a Tuesday news conference.

Mr. Racicot noted that the current federal backstop is slated to expire on Dec. 31, 2007. He added that the new Democratic chairmen of the committees that exercise jurisdiction "have placed that at the top of their agenda as well."