What began as an insurance crisis is rapidly becoming a credit and housing crisis that threatens the stability of the entire ...

Farmers Insurance Group, California’s second-largest home insurance company, is seeking a rate hike amid plans to lift a cap ...

California has some of the nation’s strongest consumer laws. The insurance commissioner simply hasn’t enforced them.

The latest episode of Consumer Watchdog's podcast series Smoke & Mirrors explores how a backdoor agreement between California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and major insurance companies led to a ...

I haven’t given up hope for our state, and neither should you. It’s high time for the Legislature to get its act together.

New research on the aftermath of wildfires has found what one expert called "a slow-burning bureaucracy," leaving disabled ...

With homeowners facing rising premiums and fewer coverage options, the Sonoma Valley Community Advisory Commission on Monday, ...

U.S. states have set up insurers to provide protection in disaster-prone areas that private insurance has avoided. They are taking on more risks as calamities become widespread.

“You have permission to move in tonight,” the inspector said.

Insurance companies are dropping customers as the cost of disasters goes up. Some communities in California are working to ...

Homeowners and residents are invited to the Sonoma Valley Community Advisory Commission meeting on Monday, Nov. 17 at Sonoma ...

Explore why over 10% of California homeowners are without fire insurance and why reforms are failing to deliver relief amid wildfire risks.