California Wildfire Outlook: ‘A Challenging Season for Firefighters’ July 1, 2024 By Don Jergler While the official start to California’s wildfire season is still a ways off, the best forecast of what’s ahead may...
Wildfire Threats Make Utilities Uninsurable in US West June 25, 2024 By Mark Chediak Trinity Public Utilities District’s power lines snake through the lower reaches of the Cascade Range, a rugged, remote and densely...
Northern California Wildfire at 15K-Plus Acres, Containment Grows on Fire in South June 19, 2024 A wildfire is raging through a large swath of western Sacramento Valley after igniting on Monday and spreading to 15,656...
Farmers to Resume Offering Key Lines of Business Insurance in California May 14, 2024 Farmers Insurance said it will resume accepting new business commercial multi-peril applications for auto service & repair, habitational, manufacturing, real...
‘Buffett Got it Wrong’ on California Fire Risk: PG&E CEO April 29, 2024 By Mark Chediak Warren Buffett’s warning that wildfires have turned utilities across the western US into risky investments is mistaken — at least...
California Sees Two More Property Insurers Withdraw From Market April 18, 2024 By Nadia Lopez California’s already strained property insurance market is facing a new challenge as two more insurers, Tokio Marine America Insurance Co....
Survey Shows Majority of Florida, California Homeowners Seeing Higher Insurance Costs April 18, 2024 Few people in Florida and California will be surprises to hear that the majority of homeowners in those states have...
US Wildfires Are Getting Bigger and More Complex, Prompting Changes in Firefighting April 11, 2024 By Ty Oneil It’s shaping up to be a long wildfire season, with Texas already seeing its largest blaze in recorded history and...
Huge Texas Blaze Shows Power-Line Fires Are a Widespread Threat March 8, 2024 By Mark Chediak, Will Wade and David R. Baker Massive wildfires sparked by power lines used to be a California problem, one many utility executives considered safely confined to...
The Hartford to Discontinue Writing New Homeowners Policies in California January 24, 2024 The Hartford confirmed this week it will discontinue writing new homeowners policies in California. The carrier reportedly has less than...