California to Establish Home And Community Hardening Standards for Insurance February 8, 2021 By Don Jergler California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday announced a new partnership between the California Department of Insurance and Gov. Gavin...
California Largest Utilities Will Spend Billions to Lower Wildfire Risk February 8, 2021 California’s largest utilities said that they will spend about $13 billion to reduce the risk of wildfires following the worst...
Utility Paying $2B Settlement in Deadly 2018 California Fire January 27, 2021 Southern California Edison will pay $2.2 billion to settle insurance claims from a deadly, destructive wildfire sparked by its equipment...
California Releases Final ZIPs for Non-Renewal Protection for 2020 Wildfires January 4, 2021 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced that nearly 500 policyholders in six ZIP codes affected by the Mountain View Fire...
Insurance Journal’s Most Popular Topics in 2020: West Region December 29, 2020 By Don Jergler The top stories for Insurance Journal’s Western region in 2020 were patently obvious to anyone who reads the news, namely...
Insurance Journal’s Top 10 Most Read Stories of 2020: West Region December 28, 2020 By Don Jergler Wildfires were the big story in the Western U.S. in 2020. And a big underlying theme in those stories is...
California Wildfire Survivors Urged to Call FEMA Helpline by Dec. 16 December 11, 2020 People with losses due to the California wildfires in Fresno, Los Angeles, Madera, Mendocino, Napa, San Bernardino, San Diego, Shasta,...
Analysts Say Cat Models Would Encourage Wildfire Mitigation Measures December 11, 2020 By Jim Sams Predictive modelers told California regulators on Thursday that the state’s antiquated rules for calculating wildfire risk when setting property insurance...
2020 Western U.S. Wildfire Season Gave Us Gigafire, Several Massive Blazes December 8, 2020 By Don Jergler Want more proof that 2020 will go down as a year we should all try hard to forget about? With...
PG&E Rate Hike in California Aimed at Easing Wildfire Risk December 7, 2020 By Michael Liedtke Pacific Gas & Electric’s household customers will be hit with an average rate increase of 8% to help the once-bankrupt...