Article 0 Comments A bill to create a statewide framework for handling wildfire smoke damage insurance claims is now making its way through California Legislature. The Smoke Damage Recovery Act, which primary backer Insurance...
Article 0 Comments A bill touted as the nation’s first public health and insurance standards to protect families from toxic smoke contamination is making its way through California legislature. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara...
Article 0 Comments Billionaire Rick Caruso is sticking with his decision to stay out of the race for Los Angeles mayor, despite raising the prospect he would reconsider following a news report that Mayor...
Article 0 Comments A bill to initiate reforms to the California FAIR Plan that include changes to customer service and claims, and added transparency was introduced on Monday. Assembly Bill 1680, the Make It...
Article 0 Comments There has been no shortage of analyses and reporting released for the one-year anniversary of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, which destroyed more than 16,000 properties and have generated more...
Article 0 Comments Mercury Insurance said it has submitted a filing based on California’s new regulation enabling catastrophe modeling to be included as a factor in ratemaking. The filing is reportedly the first to...
Article 0 Comments Los Angeles sued Airbnb, accusing the home rental company of allowing price gouging affecting at least 2,000 properties during January’s wildfires in Southern California, City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto said on...
Article 0 Comments California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday said he has launched a formal investigation into State Farm’s handling of thousands of insurance claims from wildfire survivors affected by the Palisades and...
Article 0 Comments Following the “paradigm-shifting” Los Angeles wildfires in January, the 2024-2025 wildfire season will be remembered as a turning point for the insurance industry, and a warning that “wildfire is no longer...
Article 0 Comments Some homeowners who lost their homes in the Los Angeles wildfires have filed lawsuits against three large insurers over claims payouts they say didn’t cover their losses. The lawsuits were filed...
