Consumer Watchdog Urges Attorney General Bonta to Investigate Industry Collusion on Homeowner Insurance Shortages  "Insurers collected more than $150 billion in premiums from California homeowners over the last 25 years...

Even without issuing new policies a farm and Allstate are asking the state's insurance commissioner for massive rate hikes, 28% for State Farm and 40% for Allstate.

Los Angeles, CA -- State Farm’s announcement on Friday that it would immediately stop selling homeowners insurance to new customers in California is unlawful under Proposition 103, and appears...

Consumer Watchdog Proposes Actions to Address Climate Change and Industry Abuses  Sacramento, CA – Thirty-five years after California voters passed Proposition 103 to protect themselves against skyrocketing insurance rates, insurance companies’...

Letter to the Editor - SACRAMENTO BEE October 16, 2022 Do better, Lara "This would be the most miserable choice on California's ballot -- if it were a choice," (sacbee.com, Oct. 10) The...

By Dave LaChance, REPAIRER DRIVEN NEWS October 7, 2022 https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2022/10/07/cdi-orders-auto-insurers-to-reveal-pandemic-profits/ Maintaining that auto insurers still owe rebates to California drivers who were overcharged during the stay-at-home period of the pandemic, the state’s...

By Dave LaChance, REPAIRER DRIVEN NEWS September 27, 2022 https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2022/09/27/consumer-group-calls-for-denial-of-allstate-rate-increase-in-california-pushes-instead-for-refunds/ Public interest organization Consumer Watchdog (CW) has called on California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to deny Allstate’s request for a 6.9% auto...

By Don Thompson, ASSOCIATED PRESS September 26, 2022 https://apnews.com/article/health-california-covid-traffic-02c6d9215243d6534f1af9a5693c8e1a SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Top U.S. insurance companies and associations say California is risking a crisis in the nation’s largest automobile insurance market...

By Emily Valdes, KNX 1070AM Los Angeles, CA Click here to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment. Harvey Rosenfield, author of Proposition 103 from 1988, tells KNX how...

By Dave LaChance, REPAIRER DRIVEN NEWS September 23, 2022 https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2022/09/23/consumer-watchdog-says-california-drivers-need-protections-against-misuse-of-technology-by-insurers/ Consumer protection organization Consumer Watchdog is urging California’s insurance commissioner to protect the state’s residents against the misuse of computer algorithms and...