11+ mon, 2+ day ago  (510+ words) Los Angeles business owners suffered heavy losses after the Palisades and Eaton fires. Some saw their buildings and inventory reduced to rubble, while others lost their customer bases as communities left their neighborhoods to seek refuge and recover. If a…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (599+ words) The escalating cost of wildfires now adds $41 to the average monthly power bill for residential customers of California's largest utility, according to a government report. The report calls for a systemic overhaul of how the state responds to conflagrations as…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (311+ words) Home insurance premiums are set to rise for a fifth straight year in 2026 as insurers grapple with losses from extreme weather and high rebuilding costs. The average annual premium is projected to increase 4% to about $3, 057 this year, after jumping 12% in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (966+ words) A brokered deal with regulators and consumer advocates will allow State Farm General to keep controversial rate increases in home insurance rates that took effect last year in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. The agreement sent to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (20+ words) Los Angeles Times Why California Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing in 2026...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (531+ words) In the fall of 2023, the California Legislature tasked the state's fire safety regulators with writing a report that some housing affordability advocates say could make it easier to build bigger, airier and better-lit apartment buildings in California's housing-strapped cities. The…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (342+ words) An Upland-based company that started a 2021 wildfire that burned hundreds of acres and damaged dozens of properties has agreed to pay $2. 5 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of negligence, the Justice Department announced. Garrett John Gentry and his…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (777+ words) A bill requiring insurers to offer coverage to California homeowners who make their property resistant to wildfires was introduced Wednesday in the Legislature. The Insurance Coverage for Fire-Safe Homes Act would allow the commissioner to impose a five-year ban on…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1044+ words) One of the biggest complaints from victims of the January 2025 wildfires has been demands by insurers that they provide itemized receipts for personal property losses, even if their records were destroyed in their burned homes. Now, California Sen. Adam Schiff…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1502+ words) A year after the Eaton fire, survivors and the state's electric utilities are clashing over whether state law should continue to protect the companies from the cost of disastrous wildfires they ignite. Southern California Edison says that with the help…...