By Alexei Koseff, CALMATTERS https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/california-insurance-wildfires/ As a string of last-minute deals surfaced this week before tonight's end of the legislative session, one highly anticipated proposal was not among them a plan to keep insurance companies in California even as the...

By Melody Gutierrez, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-15/lawmakers-take-up-bill-to-overhaul-state-board-that-investigates-doctors# When Angela Contreras complained to the state’s medical board last fall that a Long Beach doctor had left gauze in her brother’s abdomen during surgery, she waited — and waited — for the...

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By Sam Dean, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-09-14/newsom-homeowners-insurance-rates-coverage New home buyers -- and people getting dropped from their existing coverage -- have had a tough time finding homeowners insurance this summer in California as more and more major insurers stop writing...

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Consumer watchdog called for a public transparent debate to address insurers pull outs from the home insurance market.

Consumer advocates say that the deadline passing is a good thing, saying it essentially would have been a bailout for the industry that could have led to huge rate increases.

Harvey Rosenfield, the author of prop 103, says the insurance industry is using wildfires as an excuse to raise rates or deny coverage and are threatening to leave the state to hold officials and the public hostage.

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By John Woolfolk & Julia Prodis Sulek, EAST BAY TIMES https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/09/12/no-deal-reached-to-keep-insurance-companies-in-california-leaving-crisis-unresolved/# A rumored legislative deal aimed at keeping home insurance companies from bailing on California is dead now that the deadline for a bill has passed. But a consumer group...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QlGv7PkVWA The insurance industry's efforts to pass a last minute bailout deal failed for this legislative session.

By Mathew Kupfer, THE SF STANDARD https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/12/california-insurance-crisis-lawmakers-fail-to-pass-bill-aimed-at-luring-insurers-back/ Controversial efforts to pass a last-minute bill through the California Legislature to ease the state’s home insurance crisis have failed, according to the advocacy organization Consumer Watchdog. Legislators were unable to submit the little-understood...

The industry wants three main changes, rate increases without divulging data shifting high risk insurance costs from insurance companies to policyholders and charging consumers for what is now considered normal business expenses.

Groups say plan is being "rushed through in secrecy" By Mika Pangilinan, INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/california-insurance-bailout-plan-sparks-outcry-from-advocacy-groups-459198.aspx A coalition of consumer, environmental, and economic justice organizations is sounding the alarm on what they describe as a secretive wildfire insurance deal that could lead...

State officials trying to figure out how to stem the exodus of property insurers from wildfire-prone areas are looking with trepidation at hurricane-ravaged Florida. By Camille Von Kaenel, POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/09/california-florida-disaster-insurance-00114859 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Floridians are furious at their elected officials for...

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Consumer advocates fear the rates would skyrocket even more than they already have.

Insurance companies sequenced these pullouts as a way of orchestrating a pressure scheme to get the legislature to act and they are trying to jam through literally a last minute deal that will put a lot more costs and premium increases on all homeowners in the state to finance the wildfire exposure for those people in the highest risk areas.