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Some California homeowners expecting to get non-renewal notices from State Farm will be able to keep coverage if they also sign up for FAIR Plan fire insurance.

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed urgency legislation to expedite the hiking of homeowner insurance rates. Its about time. Because the alternative for many is no insurance at all.

With more insurance companies pulling out of the market or limiting coverage recently, some homeowners may have no other option.

David Schmalz here. One thing I’ve been thinking a lot about lately is that, while most voters frame elections in terms of who wins or loses in a race—president, governor,

Consumer advocates and insurance firms clashed at a state hearing over plans to use complex computer simulations to set homeowners' premiums.

An increasing number of insurance companies have made the decision to stop insuring homes in wildfire-prone California.

Insurance giant State Farm says it will discontinue coverage for 72,000 houses and apartments in California starting this summer.

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara in 2022 promised homeowners that insurers would credit them for making their home less vulnerable to wildfires, but homeowners say aren't getting credits and are losing coverage anyway.

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara in 2022 promised homeowners that insurers would credit them for making their home less vulnerable to wildfires, but homeowners say aren't getting credits and are losing coverage anyway.

With more California homeowners just discovering their insurance policies are getting canceled — and hundreds of thousands of others stuck with a pricey option of last resort — state Insurance