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By Dakota Smith, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-12/documents-unsealed-city-attorney-dwp-corruption More than 1,000 pages of confidential documents from a federal criminal investigation into the Los…
Apr 12, 2024Group urges the insurance commissioner to hold companies accountable By Kenneth Araullo, INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/environmental/watchdog-reiterates-call-for-fossil-fuel-disclosure-from-insurers-484613.aspx Consumer Watchdog has called for Insurance Commissioner Ricardo…
Apr 10, 2024By Jeremia Kimelman, CALMATTERS
Apr 10, 2024By Ruben Vives, LA TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-10/westside-l-a-hit-hard-as-state-farm-cancels-home-insurance Thousands of Californians who won’t see their home insurance renewed by State Farm this summer are…
Apr 10, 2024By BLANCA BEGERT and CAMILLE VON KAENEL, POLITICO https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate/2024/04/09/laras-forced-marriage-with-insurers-00151420 HOME FIRES BURNING: In Sacramento, Ricardo Lara is the state’s insurance commissioner who hasn’t yet stopped an exodus of…
Apr 9, 2024By Staff Reporters, KCBS-AM – San Francisco, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
Apr 9, 2024By JP Crumrine, INSURANCE NEWSNET Despite efforts by the state’s Department of Insurance (DOI) to revise the rate making policies in California,…
Apr 3, 2024By Mike Pangilinan, INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/property/consumer-watchdog-wants-mandatory-coverage-for-wildfiresafe-homes-483241.aspx A consumer advocacy group in California is pushing for reforms that would require insurance companies to…
Apr 1, 2024Consumer Watchdog says, what you can do if you’ve been caught up in this is you can freeze your credit with the…
Apr 1, 2024By Emily Alpert Reyes, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2024-03-31/california-cosmetic-surgery Inside a clinic wedged next to a smoke shop in a South Los Angeles…
Mar 31, 2024By Chloe Veltman, NPR https://www.npr.org/2024/03/30/1241863710/att-data-breach-dark-web AT&T announced on Saturday it is investigating a data breach involving the personal information of more than…
Mar 30, 2024By Stephen Hobbs, SACRAMENTO BEE https://www.sacbee.com/article287155520.html Former insurance commissioner Dave Jones has a sobering view on the future of homeowner coverage in…
Mar 29, 2024By Anthony De Leon, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2024-03-29/california-offers-catastrophe-plan-to-draw-insurers-back-to-the-state-but-at-what-cost-essential-california California intends to attract insurers back with flexible policies The homeowners insurance crisis in…
Mar 29, 2024By Laurence Darmiento, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-03-29/californias-insurance-crisis-what-went-wrong-whats-being-done-to-fix-it-and-how-homeowners-can-help-themselves Climate change and extreme weather have contributed to catastrophic fires that destroyed thousands of California…
Mar 29, 2024By Levi Sumagaysay, CAL MATTERS With more California homeowners just discovering their insurance policies are getting canceled — and hundreds of thousands…
Mar 25, 2024“There’s going to be push and pull,” says an industry lawyer By Mark Schoeff Jr., INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/environmental/lara-struggles-to-reform-california-insurance-market-482596.aspx Irene Sabourin used to…
Mar 25, 2024By Wendy Lee, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-03-21/apple-doj-lawsuit-consumers Cheaper app subscriptions. Additional payment options. Greater freedom for app developers on the App Store.…
Mar 25, 2024By Rob Nikolewski, SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2024-03-25/the-average-price-for-gasoline-in-san-diego-once-again-climbs-over-5-a-gallon San Diegans have another bit of inflation aggravation to deal with as the average…
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