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KNX-AM (Radio) – Los Angeles, CA: Conflict Of Interest: Electricity Trader Behind 11th Hour Regional Grid Plan Donates To Prop 50 Campaign 

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By Staff Reporters, KNX-AM – Los Angeles, CA: Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

KTVU: Electricity Deregulation Could Be Coming Back In Last Days of Session

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“Much of this harkens back to the year 2000, when the legislature unanimously passed and the governor signed a bill deregulating electricity, which bankrupted...

Pasadena Now – Guest Opinion: Joy Chen: Judge to Lara: Survivors Are Not Criminals. They’re Civic Leaders.

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By Joy Chen, PASADENA NOW https://pasadenanow.com/main/guest-opinion-joy-chen-judge-to-lara-survivors-are-not-criminals-theyre-civic-leaders If you pay insurance premiums to any company, I have good news. Last week, you won big. Twice. At the State Farm billion-dollar rate hike hearings,...

KTVU San Francisco, CA: CSAA Asks For Insurance Rate Hike

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https://youtu.be/aGG914REmdA

CapRadio – California holds off on penalizing oil companies for price gouging

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By Manola Secaira, CAP RADIO https://www.capradio.org/articles/2025/09/02/california-holds-off-on-penalizing-oil-companies-for-price-gouging The California Energy Commission voted on Friday to suspend its ability to impose a profit cap on gasoline refiners for...

KFMB-SD (CBS) San Diego, CA: CA Pauses Penalty On Big Oil To 2030

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https://youtu.be/y3qKghn7JfE

Bloomberg – Profit Cap on California Refineries Placed on Hold for Now

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By Nathan Risser, BLOOMBERG https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-29/newsom-plan-to-prevent-pump-price-spikes-delayed-by-5-years The California Energy Commission delayed implementing a profit cap on refiners, the latest move by the state in softening its stance toward the...

Los Angeles Times – Judge rules homeowner can probe State Farm claims practices

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By Laurence Darmiento, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-08-29/judge-rules-homeowner-can-probe-state-farm-claims-practices-in-rate-hearing Policyholders critical of State Farm General's response to January's firestorms won a court victory this week when a judge...

KFMB-SD (CBS) San Diego, CA: Rate Hikes Filed Under Insurance Reform Plan

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https://youtu.be/HLMO6WK-u0w

The Associated Press – California energy regulators pause efforts to penalize oil companies for high profits

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California energy regulators Friday put the brakes on plans requiring oil companies to pay a penalty if their profits climb...

Politico – Refinery profit caps are so 2023

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By Noah Baustin, POLITICO OIL SLICK: The California Energy Commission is less than three days away from a pivotal vote to delay oil refinery regulations....

E&E News – As insurers leave California, one vows to cover additional risky homes

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By Saqib Rahim, E&E NEWS https://www.eenews.net/articles/as-insurers-leave-california-one-vows-to-cover-additional-risky-homes Mercury Insurance is the state’s first to use a process that allows climate modeling to expand coverage in wildfire-prone areas. One...

ABC 7 – $100K trip to ER left California family with burned infant in billing mess

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By Stephanie Sierra, ABC7  https://abc7.com/post/100k-trip-er-left-antioch-california-family-burned-infant-tangled-billing-mess/17514842 ANTIOCH, Calif. -- A newborn baby was rushed to the emergency room with severe burns, but there was no burn unit, nor...

Cal Matters – Long-shot ballot initiative could have huge effect on California insurance

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By Levi Sumagaysay, CAL MATTERS https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/08/prop-103-ballot-initiative/ A proposed ballot initiative would drastically change the way property insurance is regulated in California by repealing a law voters...

Mercury News – Newsom embraces Big Oil — for now — to curb potential gas supply shortages

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By Grant Stringer, MERCURY NEWS https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/11/newsom-embraces-big-oil-for-now-to-curb-potential-gas-supply-shortages/ The expected closures of an oil refinery in the Bay Area and another in Southern California has Gov. Gavin Newsom,...

Los Angeles Times – Insurer of last resort faces questions over smoke damage claims

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By Laurence Darmiento, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-08-07/fair-plan-smoke-damage-legal-action-california-department-of-insurance-lara The Department of Insurance ordered the state’s home insurer of last resort to answer allegations that it has handled smoke damage...

Cal Matters – Should Lyft and Uber charge more if your battery is low? California may soon ban that

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By Maya C. Miller, CAL MATTERS https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/08/california-surveillance-pricing-ban/ It's late at night, and you badly need a ride. Your cellphone's battery is dangerously low.  Should a ridehailing company...

KGO-SF (ABC) – San Francisco, CA: Bill To Ban Higher Prices Based On Phone Data

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https://youtu.be/KEIhs0goZ8c

Politico – Consumer groups sue California to recoup compensation for fire insurance work

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By CAMILLE VON KAENEL, POLITICOhttps://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/07/consumer-groups-sue-california-to-recoup-compensation-for-fire-insurance-work-00485785?site=pro&prod=alert&prodname=alertmail&linktype=headline&source=email Two consumer advocacy groups sued California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Tuesday for denying them compensation for their involvement in crafting...

Mercury News – California’s property insurance apocalypse: Some progress, no immediate relief

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By Ethan Baron, MERCURY NEWS https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/29/property-insurance-apocalypse-some-progress-no-immediate-relief/ During Orinda homeowner Yasaman Nazmi Lee’s home-insurance saga one of millions playing out across California as the age of mega-fires...

Orange County Register – Mercury to seek new home insurance rates using California’s risk modeling system

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By Pat Maio, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER https://www.ocregister.com/2025/07/29/mercury-to-seek-new-home-insurance-rates-using-californias-risk-modeling-system/ Mercury Insurance is preparing to file updated home policy rates in California using a new catastrophic modeling system designed...

KCBS-AM (Radio) – San Francisco, CA: Consumer Watchdog Takes Issue With How The Insurance Rate Hike Modeling Is Being Handled

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By Staff Reporters, KCBS – San Francisco, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

KPCC-FM (Radio) – Los Angeles, CA: Surveillance Pricing With Justin Kloczko

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By Staff Reporters, KPCC – Los Angeles, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

KXTV-SAC (ABC) – Sacramento, CA: Fair Plan Fee Lawsuit Scaled Down

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https://youtu.be/WvesXeWtox8

KTVU-SF (FOX) – San Francisco, CA: State Farm Asks Judge To Seal Documents Justifying Rate Hike

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https://youtu.be/LQCFw77jRCQ

Mercury News – Elias: California energy bill could be Legislature’s worst this year

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Pending law from Silicon Valley’s Becker would strip state of control over its electricity sources By Thomas Elias, MERCURY NEWS https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/18/elias-california-energy-bill-could-be-legislatures-worst-this-year/ There is rarely a shortage of...

Los Angeles Times – Wildfire victims’ in limbo as fight with insurers hits another snag

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By Laurence Darmiento, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-07-18/jan-7-fires-claims-complaints-mediation After receiving more than 1,000 complaints from Jan. 7 fire victims about how insurers are handling their claims, state regulators...

E&E News – California leapfrogs Florida in US insurance risk

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By THOMAS FRANK, E&E NEWS POLITICO https://www.eenews.net/articles/california-leapfrogs-florida-in-us-insurance-risk California appears to have supplanted Florida as the state with the weakest property insurance market, with newly released data showing...

KTVU (Fox): State Farm pushes to keep rate hike documents secret

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By Tom Vacar, KTVU https://www.ktvu.com/news/secret-insurance-rate-setting-documents-should-not-be-secret SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - The huge but conditional homeowner insurance rate increases granted to State Farm last month had its first of many days before the...

KGTV-SD (ABC) – San Diego, CA: Secret Doctor Rehab Program On Hold

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https://youtu.be/ZOy3TgqPeow
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