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By David Gelles, NEW YORK TIMES In California, a home insurance rate increase by State Farm is yet another sign of growing…
May 15, 2025
Today's decision that would make consumers pay now, but allow state farm to wait months before having to show its math, is…
May 14, 2025Regulators like California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara “need to hold insurance giants like State Farm accountable to paying out what they owe,…
May 14, 2025By Steve Lopez, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-13/lopez-column-fire-victim-complaints-state-farm For four months, the frustrations and indignities have continued for victims of the Palisades and…
May 14, 2025By Levi Sumagaysay, CALMATTERS State Farm can raise homeowner and other rates starting next month, becoming the first insurance company to win…
May 14, 2025By Pat Maio, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS California on Tuesday approved a 17% emergency rate hike for State Farm after the state’s…
May 14, 2025By Laurence Darmiento, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-13/administrative-law-judge-approves-denies-revises-state-farms-request-for-a-17-emergency-rate-hike-la-wildfires Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara adopted an administrative law judge’s ruling Tuesday and granted State Farm…
May 14, 2025By Queenie Wong, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-12/dystopian-aesthetic-in-california-sam-altmans-eye-scanning-orbs-spark-curiosity-and-resistance Earlier this month, a mysterious store selling a vision of the future opened its doors…
May 13, 2025Big Tech-backed Democrats could hand one of the country’s largest and greenest energy markets to Trump and his fossil fuel acolytes. By…
May 13, 2025By Laurence Darmiento, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-13/insurers-seeking-to-surcharge-california-homeowners-for-l-a-county-fire-costs Insurers are seeking to charge homeowners across California for some of the costs of the…
May 13, 2025By Tran Nguyen, ASSOCIATED PRESS https://apnews.com/article/california-state-farm-rate-increase-home-0cf3c463ae54e0ed9466ca2924a9d590 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s top insurance regulator said Tuesday that State Farm can soon start raising…
May 13, 2025
By Levi Sumagaysay, CALMATTERS Rossana Valverde’s Pasadena home of 35 years is still standing after Los Angeles County’s devastating January fires but…
May 5, 2025By Paul Sisson, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE Consumer advocacy groups are opposing a bill that would create a confidential treatment program for physicians…
May 5, 2025By Michael Carroll, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RECORD https://socalrecord.com/stories/671084738-insurance-commissioner-sued-over-policyholder-surcharges-resulting-from-january-s-wildfire-damage A Los Angeles consumer group is suing Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara over his decision to allow…
Apr 29, 2025By Justin Klozcko, CALMATTERS Let’s say you work in the food service industry for a large company, whose scheduling software assigns shifts…
Apr 29, 2025