During his first four years in office, Ricardo Lara failed to head off the looming property insurance contraction that saw ...

In 2023, California’s median home insurance cost of about $1,200 a year ranked in the middle among all states, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for ...

California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, ...

As catastrophe risk models for assessing wildfires continue to advance, and as the industry experiences ongoing refinements in pricing and coverage ...

Wildfire data is no longer fragmented. Nonprofit Watch Duty now offers nationwide coverage, delivering actionable, map-based ...

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 ...

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California's 2025 Los Angeles wildfires have caused damages potentially exceeding $164 billion according to UCLA economists, ...

California's home insurance market is buckling under the combined weight of climate risk, regulatory gridlock and a reform ...

It was thought that complex cells couldn’t survive above a certain temperature, but a tiny amoeba has proven that assumption ...

Homeowners across California will soon see a new charge on their monthly insurance bills to help pay claims arising from this year’s devastating Los Angeles wildfires. Most of the temporary fees ...