The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) has praised the insurance industry after the release of ...

January 1, 2026 - Sacramento, Calif. - Beginning January 1, 2026, nine new laws sponsored by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and the California Department of Insurance will go into effect, ...

The California Department of Insurance has commissioned a task force to develop a first-in-the-nation smoke damage standard that could be the blueprint for a national standard. Once thought of as a ...

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.

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is telling residents whose homes or businesses were damaged or destroyed by wildfires this week to not sign anything right away - to be a little patient.

The California Department of Insurance gave Allstate permission to increase its homeowners insurance premiums by an average 34.1 percent, the largest rate hike of any major insurer approved by the ...

A class-action lawsuit against the California FAIR Plan Assn. accuses the state’s insurance program of last resort of unlawfully selling policies with subpar coverage for fire and smoke damage. The ...

California is as car crazy as ever, with insurance rates increasing to match. Data analyzed by the insurance comparison website Insurify showed the average annual cost of full coverage in California ...

Citing data released by the CDI on Dec. 31, Ritter said insurers have paid more than $22.4 billion across 42,121 wildfire ...

Two lawsuits allege major home insurance companies have colluded to limit coverage in wildfire-prone California communities and force homeowners onto the state's last-resort insurance plan . As more ...