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By Michael Tellez, FOX26 NEWS https://kmph.com/news/local/california-wildfire-survivors-demand-ricardo-lara-resigns-palisades-new-york-times-policies-insurance-commisioner-loopholes CALIFORNIA (FOX26) — A new report is raising questions about how California’s wildfire insurance system ended up where…
Nov 7, 2025By Iman Palm, Kimberly Cheng, KTLA 5 https://ktla.com/news/california/fire-survivors-urge-gov-newsom-to-call-for-insurance-commissioner-ricardo-laras-resignation-following-new-york-times-report Survivors of the Eaton and Palisades fires are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to urge California…
Nov 7, 2025By Julianna Lozada, MERCURY NEWS Eaton and Palisades fire survivors on Thursday, Nov. 6, are calling for California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to resign after…
Nov 7, 2025By City News Service, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT https://www.thedowneypatriot.com/articles/la-fire-survivors-urge-for-resignation-of-state-insurance-commissioner Survivors of the Eaton and Palisades fires Thursday urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to call…
Nov 7, 2025By Insurance Journal Staff https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2025/11/06/846762.htm A few of the victims of the Los Angeles wildfires in January are asking California Gov. Gavin…
Nov 7, 2025“We thought we could trust the system,” said a homeowner in Altadena whose insurance policy was canceled only months before the January…
Nov 7, 2025By Laurence Darmiento, LOS ANGELES TIMES Victims of the January wildfires in Los Angeles County urged Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday to…
Nov 7, 2025By Jo BeckerJeremy Singer-VineKatie Benner and Laurel Rosenhall Graphics by Mira Rojanasakul November 1, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/us/los-angeles-california-fire-insurance-regulations.html?smid=em-share Even before the devastating wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles this…
Nov 1, 2025By Dustin Gardiner (opens in new tab) and Blake Jones (opens in new tab), POLITICO https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2025/10/23/federal-agents-assemble-across-the-bay-00619516?nname=california-playbook&nid=00000150-384f-da43-aff2-bf7fd35a0000&nrid=7c1e98f8-1e02-4590-8f98-9bfefd9130cd Consumer Watchdog produced a podcast featuring accounts of people…
Oct 23, 2025By Laurence Darmiento, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-10-22/california-insurers-given-ok-to-charge-homeowners-statewide-for-l-a-county-fire-costs Residential policyholders across California could be paying several hundred million dollars to help cover the…
Oct 22, 2025By Ethan Varian, MERCURY NEWS As catastrophic wildfires spur insurance companies to raise homeowner premiums and drop thousands of policyholders across California,…
Oct 19, 2025By Curt Barry, INSIDE EPA https://insideepa.com/daily-news/newsom-signs-ej-opposed-bill-develop-co2-pipeline-regulations#:~:text=Gavin%20Newsom%20(D)%20has%20signed,Materials%20Safety%20Administration%20(PHMSA). California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has signed into law a bill requiring the State Fire Marshall…
Oct 17, 2025By Alex Brown, STATELINE https://stateline.org/2025/10/13/the-wests-power-grid-could-be-stitched-together-if-red-and-blue-states-buy-in For years, Western leaders have debated the creation of a regional energy market: a coordinated grid to…
Oct 13, 2025By Laurence Darmiento, LOS ANGELES TIMES One hallmark of the 1988 ballot measure that governs California’s auto and home insurance code allows the…
Oct 13, 2025By Mark Anderson, SACRAMENTO BUSINESS JOURNAL https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2025/10/11/fair-insurance-plan-seeks-rate-increase.html The California FAIR Plan, the homeowners insurance of last resort, is seeking an average 35.8%…
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