CDI data through Nov. 17, 2025, shows wildfire claims have topped $22 billion, with payments reported from admitted insurers, ...

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

The California Department of Insurance continued the momentum toward improving insurance options statewide. The Department announced it had completed the review of three forward-looking wildfire ...

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 ...

California’s Department of Insurance has worked to repair the broken insurance system, but the LA fires threaten to undo the progress the state has made. The burnt remains of a building where once ...

California will soon force insurance companies that stopped providing coverage over growing wildfire risks to start writing policies again if they want to continue doing business in the Golden ...

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 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.

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Today Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara enforced his “first of its kind” catastrophe modeling and ...