Up In Smoke: How Insurance Companies and the Insurance Commissioner Burn Wildfire Victims

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A Consumer Watchdog examination of public filings reveals that insurance companies have inserted provisions into the fine print of their home, condo and renters’ insurance policies that allow them to limit or deny coverage after a wildfire in violation of California law. Read the report, “Up in Smoke: How Insurance Companies and the Insurance Commissioner Burn Wildfire Victims.”

Read the report here.

John Ennis
John Ennishttps://consumerwatchdog.org
John Ennis is a filmmaker and author. His feature films are PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy’s High Stakes, exploring the role of money in politics, FREE FOR ALL! One Dude’s Quest to Save Our Elections, chronicling widespread voter disenfranchisement, and the Upright Citizens Brigade‘s Wild Girls Gone starring Amy Poehler and Matt Walsh. He is a co-founder of Video the Vote, a citizen journalism project exposing election problems, and served as executive director and board member for Public Interest Pictures. His first book, Where Else But The Streets: A Street Art Dossier, chronicles political street art in Los Angeles. His recent book, Democracy Days: Dispatches From the Obama Era, explores democracy issues during the Obama Administration.
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