The Return Period for An LA Wildfire-Scale Event May Be Shorter Than You Think January 15, 2026 By Don Jergler There has been no shortage of analyses and reporting released for the one-year anniversary of the January 2025 Los Angeles...
Less Than a Dozen Homes Have Been Rebuilt a Year After LA Wildfires January 9, 2026 By Alex Veiga and Gabriela Aoun Angueira On the first anniversary of the most destructive wildfires in the L.A. area, the scant home construction projects stand out...
Their Homes Survived The LA Wildfires; A Year Later They Fear Living in Them January 7, 2026 By Dorany Pineda and Jae C. Hong “DANGER: Lead Work Area” reads a sign on a front door of an Altadena home. “May damage fertility or the...
Morningstar: A Year Later, LA Wildfires Were ‘Significant Stress Event’ for Insurance January 6, 2026 In a report one year on from the Los Angeles area wildfires in 2025, which started on Jan. 7, Morningstar...
Woman Who Lost Home in LA Wildfire Sowed Hope Where Her Home Once Stood January 6, 2026 By Alex Veiga Missi Dowd-Figueroa brought life back to the fire-ravaged plot where her home once stood—one sunflower at a time. The registered...
Insurance Payments Now at $22.4B From LA Wildfires One Year Ago January 5, 2026 Insurers have paid more than $22.4 billion on tens of thousands of claims from the Los Angles wildfires that broke...
Top West Region Insurance Journal Stories of 2025 December 29, 2025 By Don Jergler California’s wildfire and homeowners insurance crisis were the most read stories in Insurance Journal’s Western region this year. It was...
Viewpoint: Bombarded by Fire Lawsuits, Policy Change is Sorely Needed in California December 2, 2025 Mere days into the new year of 2025, Los Angeles faced the highly destructive Palisades Fire, which destroyed some 6,837...
Brockovich Group Sues Over LA Fire Alert Failure in 18 Deaths November 18, 2025 By John Gittelsohn A communications contractor for Los Angeles County was blamed in a lawsuit for 18 deaths in a January wildfire over...
LA County Launches Investigation Into State Farm Over Wildfire Claims November 13, 2025 Los Angeles County is conducting an investigation into State Farm’s handling of insurance claims from the devastating L.A. wildfires in...