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California to consider State Farm emergency rate increase request
Commissioner Ricardo Lara had asked for the meeting in which he and Consumer Watchdog will sit down with State Farm reps in ...
Farmers announces initial $600-million loss for Los Angeles fires
Farmers Insurance said claims from the Los Angeles fires will cost it at least $600 million, a substantially smaller initial ...
Opinion Columnists
State’s commissioner juggles often-conflicting goals of protecting homeowners and stabilizing the insurance market.
CA post-wildfire beef heats up as state insurance chief accuses Dem congressman of ‘White mansplaining’
Calif., criticized his reform plans, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara accused him of "white mansplaining" ...
L.A. wildfires up the pressure on California’s insurance commissioner
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has been grappling with the troubled market for his six years in office, and now his ...
Opinion
Walters: L.A. wildfires intensify political jousting over insurance premiums
State’s commissioner juggles often-conflicting goals of protecting homeowners and stabilizing the insurance market.
Nearly three years in, state closes probe of top insurance regulator due to insufficient evidence
Ricardo Lara was the subject of an FPPC complaint filed in 2022 by Consumer Watchdog, a Los Angeles advocacy group that has ...
Morning Glory: Not a dime to the state of California for fire relief
President Trump and Secretary Burgum should take over the disaster areas, help victims rebuild, and stiff the grifters and ...
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Cal Fire’s new fire risk maps show jump in ‘very high’ danger zones in Sonoma, Napa counties
The new maps add 1.4 million acres of land statewide into higher fire severity categories, accompanied by stricter building ...
State Farm reports staggering insurance losses from Los Angeles wildfires
State Farm General, California’s largest home insurer by far, estimates it will pay $7.6 billion to survivors of the Los ...
Walters: Los Angeles wildfires intensify political jousting over home insurance premiums
The horrendously destructive and deadly Los Angeles wildfires erupted in January just as Insurance Commissioner Ricardo ...
DeMaio’s insurance bill is the wrong solution
Democratic Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara was slow to react to the state’s long-brewing insurance crisis and he’s also ...