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Liza Tucker

Staff Energy Advocate

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

ANN MITCHELL

Last year, Ann Mitchell paid Farmers a $3,467 annual home insurance premium. Upon renewal last July, and without any warning, her premium…

Sep 24, 2024
Homeowners Insurance

RENEE PASQUINELLI

Renee Pasquinelli has a mantra when it comes to insurers using black box catastrophe models to sweepingly rate California properties as high…

Sep 24, 2024
Homeowners Insurance

SUSAN C

After speaking with her elected representatives, her home insurance company, and contacting the California Insurance Department, Susan still has no answers justifying…

Sep 20, 2024
Homeowners Insurance

MARK BURTON

Mark Burton is the poster child for obscene AAA home insurance premium hikes in recent years. The latest hike came to $14,601…

Sep 4, 2024
Homeowners Insurance

BRUCE BRESLAU

Bruce Breslau is a communications professional who lives with his husband in the California West community on the historic Iverson Movie Ranch…

Aug 22, 2024
Homeowners Insurance

GIGI BANNISTER

California homeowners are not just facing losing their comprehensive home insurance and being forced onto the CA FAIR Plan for wildfire coverage.

Aug 7, 2024
Homeowners Insurance

FRAN LANCASTER

Fran Lancaster, a retiree living in Poway outside of San Diego, has had Farmers home insurance for 20 years and has never…

May 21, 2024
Homeowners Insurance

KAREN LOBER

Karen Lober says she feels screwed by her home insurance company.  She bought her house on a mountain in Colfax in 2019,…

May 3, 2024
Homeowners Insurance

DEBORAH CARTER

Deborah Carter, a retired nurse, lives in the mountains of Santa Cruz. For years and years, her home insurance was through Farmers. Then,…

May 2, 2024
Homeowners Insurance

SCOTT D

Scott D. lived in densely populated Southern California for 15 years before getting away from it all. In 2005, he moved up…

May 1, 2024
Homeowners Insurance

PATTI CASAS

For Patti, big homeowner insurance rate hikes are old news. She lives in a two-story townhouse at Laguna Village in Laguna Hills.…

Apr 1, 2024