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KPBS Television – San Diego, CA: Insurer of Last Resort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GTm698dYok
Many California homeowners are hurting, they are facing big rate increases or the threat of nonrenewal from insurance company.
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KGO-SF (ABC) – San Francisco, CA: Allstate Eyes California Return, With Conditions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0oXJK5y8Ok
Harvey Rosenfield says insurance companies are permitted for the first time in California to use computer models that are black box models that cannot be assessed by the public. If this proposal goes into effect, people's rates will...
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FOX 11- Los Angeles, CA: State Farm dropping policies in these California ZIP codes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H80Vy9FObt8
Last month, State Farm Insurance announced it would be dropping thousands of California policies beginning this summer, nearly a year after announcing it would no longer accept homeowner insurance applications in the Golden State.
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KTXL-SAC (FOX) – Sacramento, CA: Addressing CA’s Insurance Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bPtJt4YMWI
Carmen Balber wants the legislature to require insurance companies provide coverage for homeowners who have taken steps to reduce fire risks and protect their properties.
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KPIX-SF (CBS) – San Francisco, CA: Homeowner Insurance Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JYwGtz215w
Harvey Rosenfield, founder of consumer watchdog, says the insurance companies are intentionally forcing homeowners into the fair plan as a way of getting every homeowner in the state to pay the fair plan's losses.
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KTVU-SF (FOX) – San Francisco, CA: Home Insurance in California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPjpJpnGA8I
Carmen Balber says what we need is a mandate that home insurers who want the privilege of selling home and auto insurance in California, sell to every California who does the right thing and meets state mandated guidelines...
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KABC-LA (ABC) – Los Angeles, CA: California’s Insurance Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uifrHeXzhAs
Consumer Watchdog has been urging for years now that California require insurance companies who want to sell home or auto insurance in California sell to everyone who does the right thing and protects their homes.
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KTVU-SF (FOX) – San Francisco, CA: State Farm to Non-Renew Thousands of Policies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZK-XM2oKCA
State Farms last big rate increase came just last week, assuming that they sell insurance policies to people who need it in the state, and now they're canceling more people.
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KCAL News – Los Angeles, CA: New Plan to Stop Exodus of Insurers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4QbsrSgAs
Carmen Balber says restoring options for consumers will safeguard an independent transparent review of rate filings by the department of insurance experts which is a bedrock principle of California law.
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KTVU-SF (FOX) – San Francisco, CA: Using Models To Predict Insurance Rate Hikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GAY6xfdKTA
Harvey Rosenfield of Consumer Watchdog says this new plan would allow the insurance companies to propose these models without public scrutiny, and there's this there's nothing in this regulation that requires the insurance companies to reduce anybody's rates...
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