The cost of fire insurance in California will largely depend on your home’s location and its historic wildfire risk. How prevalent are wildfires in California? Wildfires have always been a natural part of California’s forest ecosystems. In fact, a low-intensity fire can actually be beneficial...
After several years of record-breaking California wildfires, insurance companies have responded by imposing huge premium increases on property owners, or even worse, flat-out denying coverage and canceling policies. Here are some tips to help property owners maintain their current insurance plan or, i...
Penny Zagalis.Hartford Fire Insurance Company v California:Reassessing the Application of the McCarran-Ferguson Act to Foreign Reinsurers. Cornell International Law Journal . 1994Penny Zagalis.Hartford Fire Insurance Company v California:Reassessing the Application of the McCarran-Ferguson Act to Foreign...
Wade Anglin lives right down the street from the fire camp. He's worried that if a fire station has issues easily getting fire insurance, what's the future for his community? "They have firefighters on scene and without them, we won't be able to get any insurance," Anglin said. We r...
GREENWIRE|SACRAMENTO, California - How bad is California's wildfire insurance crisis? So bad that the state can't get coverage for its own firehouses. The irony emerged at a state Senate Budget subcommittee hearing Thursday in Sacramento, where Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration defende...
Fire insurance policies: an endangered species With fire season now just peaking and plenty of weeks still to go, we have already racked up California's worst ever fire season. Homeowners in the urban wildland interface are getting multiple shocks from massive insurance increases, less coverage ...
In California, fire victims squeezed in dispute between insurance companies, architects. (Originated from Orange County Register)Sforza, Teri
California's wildfires are cooling the state'sreal estatemarket asinsurersseek to back out of fire-prone areas and would-be buyers face high costs for plans. The situation is causing buyers to have a hard time finding insurance and to then back out of purchases or lower their offers,The Wa...
“As California wildfires grow larger and more intense, an increasing number of insurance companies are not renewing policies for customers who live in areas they deem too risky to cover,” wrote Laura Newberry of the Los Angeles Times.“The state estimates that more than one million California ...
But even as the two trade barbs, their pitches aren’tthatdifferent. Both emphasize the personal and financial struggles they overcame in their younger years. In his launch video, Deaton says, “I fought for the little guy. I took on the greedy corporations and the heartless insurance companie...