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By TERI SFORZA, MONTEREY HERALD That $8.5 billion “cost shift” that regulators say falls on non-solar customers and is partly responsible for our…
Apr 7, 2025By Scott Nover, FAST COMPANY https://www.fastcompany.com/91304742/california-lawmakers-take-on-surveillance-pricing-as-ftc-retreats You pay $75 more for your hotel room than the guest in an identical room next…
Mar 27, 2025By Eli Fischer, LAW360 California regulators’ provisional approval of State Farm’s premium increase request following the Los Angeles fires is another step…
Mar 25, 2025By Thomas Elias, ENTERPRISE-RECORD Here’s the likely outcome of the April 8 hearing set to follow the California insurance commissioner’s tentative mid-March…
Mar 25, 2025
Public hearing begins Tuesday, April 8, 10:00 AMWATCH LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/@cdiahb3069/streamsKey documents below ** IN BOLD Consumer Watchdog is challenging State Farm’s unprecedented…
Mar 25, 2025By Stephanie Sierra, ABC 7 https://abc7news.com/post/ca-insurance-commissioners-attendance-record-in-question/16045912 SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — After missing the first key state insurance briefing of the year while…
Mar 24, 2025By Dave Mason, The Center Square https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_cc0af8fa-0426-11f0-b653-d31cb0344b54.html Lara’s trip meant he wasn’t available to testify March 12 in Sacramento at the first state…
Mar 20, 2025By Christopher Reynolds, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2025-03-18/adults-only-hotel-ban-children-is-it-legal Can hotels legally ban children? With spring breaks starting momentarily and summer vacations not far away,…
Mar 20, 2025Surveillance pricing is when companies use personal locations and data to set individualized prices, aiming to charge consumers the highest price they…
Mar 19, 2025By Thomas Elias, ENTERPRISE RECORD If California wants power company executives from coal-happy states like Wyoming and Utah to run energy policy…
Mar 19, 2025By Matthew Sellers, INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/catastrophe/california-approves-state-farms-22-insurance-rate-hike-with-conditions-528660.aspx California regulators have given State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. preliminary approval to raise home insurance premiums by an average of…
Mar 17, 2025
By Tran Nguyen, ASSOCIATED PRESS https://apnews.com/article/california-insurance-rate-increase-state-farm-wildfire-678085d49fff2edc1a53d61250cff7c6 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s top insurance regulator on Friday said he would approve an emergency…
Mar 14, 2025By Stephen Hobbs, SACRAMENTO BEE https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article301590469.html Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said Friday he will approve State Farm’s request for an emergency rate…
Mar 14, 2025By Megan Fan Munce, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/home-insurance-state-farm-rate-20215509.php California regulators have given State Farm General initial approval for its largest home insurance rate hike in…
Mar 14, 2025By Pat Maio, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said he would approve State Farm’s emergency 22% rate increase to offset…
Mar 14, 2025By Levi Sumagaysay, CALMATTERS California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said today he will grant State Farm’s request to raise home insurance premiums…
Mar 14, 2025By Don Jergler, INSURANCE JOURNAL https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2025/03/14/815708.htm California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara provisionally approved State Farm’s request for a 22% interim homeowners insurance rate…
Mar 14, 2025