What to know about home insurance coverage after a major natural disaster
It’s one thing to fix your home after something basic has gone wrong, but it’s a different beast to rebuild and recover after ...
California Voters Erased a Plan to Keep Children Insured, and it Might Be Too Late to Fix It
Children’s advocates are asking the state for money for all low-income children to stay on Medi-Cal without renewal ...
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The FAIR Plan Was Meant to Insure Against Racism, Not Wildfires
The California program was created to protect urban neighborhoods. Now it’s become an incentive to build in fire-prone areas.
California's insurance crisis leaves neighbors facing unequal recovery after wildfires
Next-door neighbors lost their near-identical homes in a California wildfire, but how they are navigating rebuilding is a ...
LA wildfires highlight nation’s insurance crisis as homeowners try to recover lost homes
The nation’s growing home insurance crisis is in the spotlight as California homeowners begin the long road to rebuilding ...
Los Angeles fires highlight risk of 'uninsurable future,' experts say
While they wait for a rental property to become available, Jewlz and Terry are now living in a hotel room with their dog Coda ...
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AM Best: Addressing California’s wildfire losses and the urgent need for insurance market reform
January 1 Renewals and What to Expect in 2025, insurance experts, including Carlos Wong-Fupuy, Senior Director at AM ...
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Why all California homeowners could be on the hook for LA County wildfire costs
The California FAIR Plan has an outsized share of the state’s riskiest policies because it is the insurer of last resort for home and building owners who can’t get coverage elsewhere ... must pitch in ...
California’s home insurance prices set to soar
Note that policy costs in these high-risk states, minus California, averaged $5,040 – roughly 150% more than Golden State ...
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THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Rebuild Black Altadena without the usual obstacles
A 2018 study by Rice University sociologists and the University of Pittsburgh examined counties that were hit by natural ...
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LA’s wildfires may trigger global consequences for insurance industry
LA's catastrophic fires ring alarm bells in Australia, where global ripple effects are likely to force up insurance premiums.
Insurers Were Right About California’s Wildfires
Regulators in California made it difficult for insurers to raise rates despite increasing risks. So the insurers stopped ...