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Liza Tucker

Liza Tucker is a Consumer Advocate for Consumer Watchdog, following everything from California’s regulation of oil and gas to toxic substances.

Prior to joining Consumer Watchdog, she worked for a decade at Marketplace Radio, the largest, most-listened-to business and economics broadcast show in the U.S. airing on hundreds of public radio stations nationwide. She served as an editor and producer for both Washington and Sustainability news.

Prior to that, Liza worked as a staff writer for the Washington Post and freelanced her way through the fall of the Soviet Union for the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and Time Magazine. She has also worked as a consultant, teacher, and translator from Russian to English. She holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. from Columbia School of the Arts. She lives in Los Angeles.

Liza Tucker — Consumer Watchdog journalist

Articles by Liza Tucker

Homeowners Insurance

GEORGE BRAUE

Getting basic information about how insurers arrive at wildfire risk ratings that can send premiums to stratospheric levels has been impossible for…

Mar 3, 2025
Homeowners Insurance

FRANK EGGER

Frank Egger’s home insurance story mirrors many others whose home insurance policies were non-renewed and who faced the CA FAIR Plan as…

Jan 8, 2025
Homeowners Insurance

NATALIE S

Natalie is calling out home insurers for raising rates but not giving homeowners and their communities credit for the work they have…

Jan 7, 2025
Homeowners Insurance

LINDA DANNELS

FAIR Plan insurance premiums are rising so much that some people have made the hard choice to drop the wrap around policies…

Oct 16, 2024