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...

By Megan Fan Munce, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/allstate-home-insurance-19419045.php One of California’s largest home insurers says it plans to resume writing new policies — as soon as the state implements regulations insurers have been asking for.  Allstate stopped writing new homeowner policies in November 2022 due...

By Laurence Darmiento, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-04-24/consumer-advocates-insurance-industry-clash-at-homeowners-insurance-crisis-hearing The fault lines running through California’s spiraling homeowners insurance crisis were on display Tuesday at a state hearing, where consumer advocates clashed with industry firms over a plan to allow insurers to use...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gvvr4LET5g Michele Monserratt-Ramos, patient advocate at Consumer Watchdog, said adding Arizona doctors to California facilities could lead to longer wait times for California women.

By Terry Gangcuangco, INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/catastrophe/consumer-watchdog-on-what-will-not-solve-californias-insurance-crisis-486434.aspx Consumer Watchdog has expressed strong opposition against Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s proposed changes in California. In the consumer advocate’s view, letting insurers use private black-box models and artificial intelligence in predicting the risk of catastrophic wildfires will...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trOjaYVjwYQ Jamie Court and other privacy advocates say people have the right to choose how their and their children's DNA is used.

By Staff Reporters, KOGO-AM – San Diego, CA  Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

By Dan Bacher, ELK GROVE NEWS https://www.elkgrovenews.net/2024/04/new-oil-drilling-permit-approvals-fall.html Newsom's regulators have issued a total of 15,940 well permits of all types since he took office in 2019. “At the same time, permits to redrill oil and gas wells plummeted 89% to 99...

https://youtu.be/Aeg054wX5g0 Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista says it's closing its maternity ward and moving those services to their Hillcrest location for the growing number of emergency patients.

By Staff Reporters, KQED-FM – San Francisco, CA  Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

By Stephen Hobbs, SACRAMENTO BEE https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article286759155.html In 2022, state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced he would force companies to offer discounts to people who take specific steps to protect their homes from wildfires. It was part of an effort, he...

By City News Service, EPOCH TIMES https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-unseals-warrants-in-case-of-botched-ladwp-billing-5631503 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A Los Angeles federal judge issued a final order today on an application to unseal 33 FBI search warrants and related documents that detail a probe into alleged unethical...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwVwBOOOF6E Jamie Court says there there's no question in 2022 to 2023, oil company profits were higher than they've been in the last 20 years, so for them to say they're making pennies is just malarkey.

By Dakota Smith, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-12/documents-unsealed-city-attorney-dwp-corruption More than 1,000 pages of confidential documents from a federal criminal investigation into the Los Angeles city attorney's office and the Department of Water and Power will be unsealed, a federal judge signaled...

Group urges the insurance commissioner to hold companies accountable By Kenneth Araullo, INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/environmental/watchdog-reiterates-call-for-fossil-fuel-disclosure-from-insurers-484613.aspx Consumer Watchdog has called for Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to enforce transparency from insurance companies regarding their insurance of fossil fuel projects, aligning with the broader climate...

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.

By Jeremia Kimelman, CALMATTERS https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/04/california-legislature-gifts-travel/#:~:text=Free%20travel%20for%20legislators&text=Special%20interest%20groups%20and%20nonprofits,%24950%2C000%20in%20travel%20in%202022.

By Ruben Vives, LA TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-10/westside-l-a-hit-hard-as-state-farm-cancels-home-insurance Thousands of Californians who won’t see their home insurance renewed by State Farm this summer are homeowners in Los Angeles County, with some upscale Westside neighborhoods hit hard, according to the insurer’s recent filings...

By BLANCA BEGERT and CAMILLE VON KAENEL, POLITICO  https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate/2024/04/09/laras-forced-marriage-with-insurers-00151420 HOME FIRES BURNING: In Sacramento, Ricardo Lara is the state’s insurance commissioner who hasn’t yet stopped an exodus of property insurers fleeing increased costs fueled by climate change. But at the Hotel Indigo in downtown Los Angeles where...