The state’s insurer of last resort is meant for high fire risk properties but homeowners in areas unlikely to burn are now ...

The state’s property insurance crisis, deepened by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, is bringing renewed attention and a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burnt out homes in Pacific Palisades, California. Before the world watched on as wildfires engulfed large swathes of California ...

The wildfires ravaging Southern California are expected to add further fuel to the state's ongoing insurance crisis, as residents' options for property coverage continue to dwindle or even disappear.

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Auto insurance rates have surged because of high inflation and soaring vehicle repair costs in the car capital of the country.

“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 ...

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 ...