Candidates spoke about moving people off the California FAIR Plan and modernizing the Department of Insurance at a forum in ...

California insurance commissioner candidates vow reform, fixes for FAIR Plan ...

A few big-name insurance companies have committed to writing more policies in parts of California that include high wildfire ...

Homes that lose coverage can become un-mortgageable. Property values decline. Communities that stood for decades begin to be hollowed out.

California could be a testing ground for a carrot-and-stick approach to preventing the collapse of insurance markets as ...

Homeowners in several states should brace for potential double-digit percent increases in their home insurance rate in 2026, according to a forecast by Insurify.

Losses from the Los Angeles fires threatened to deepen a crisis that has already left hundreds of thousands of Californians struggling to find and keep affordable homeowners insurance. A major concern ...

“We’re never going to get to affordability if we don’t get insurers back into California. And the way we do that is by bringing down the risk,” said Ricardo Lara, the California Insurance Commissioner ...

One of the most common insurance complaints after a fire comes from people whose homes are still standing but covered in potentially toxic soot. Because there is no state or federal standard for smoke ...

Michelle is a lead editor at Forbes Advisor. She has been a journalist for over 35 years, writing about insurance for consumers for the last decade. Prior to covering insurance, Michelle was a ...

Jennifer Lobb is a staff editor at Buy Side and an expert on auto, home and life insurance. Edited By Written by Insurance Senior Editor, Buy Side Amy Danise is the staff Senior Insurance Editor for ...