Insurance Regulation
Rebuilding the California Property Market: Reinsurance Costs and Recent Reforms
In November of last year, Allstate paused writing new homeowners policies in California. State Farm, the state's largest homeowners writer, stopped accepting new applications for insurance back in ...
‘Risky in California’ Spurs Push for Home Insurance Overhaul
California is prioritizing home insurance availability as it rewrites market rules to coax back insurers and ease a coverage crunch in a state ravaged by wildfires, said Insurance Commissioner ...
How a Regional Carrier Protects Against a $60B California Cat Event
While two dozen interested parties spoke at a recent California Department of Insurance workshop on the use of catastrophe modeling in pricing, offering predictable messages supporting carrier, ...
California’s Next Steps: Picking the Right Cat Models and Staffing Up
Is $11 million too much to pay for a public catastrophe model? Does the California Department of Insurance have to hire a new contingent of specialists to understand private models, if those are ...
Calif. Commish Calls for Biggest Reform Since Prop 103; Planned Fixes Detailed
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced a package of sweeping executive actions that include changes to the FAIR Plan, new rules for the review of climate catastrophe models, and ...
Breaking: California to Offer Insurers More Leeway to Set Rates for Fire Risk
California's insurance commissioner announced a new regulatory plan on Thursday that would allow insurers to factor future climate risks into their pricing and require them to offer more coverage in ...
Are Winds of Change Blowing on California Insurance Law?
It would be wrong to assume that California regulators and lawmakers are only now starting to ponder what to do about a potential insurance crisis in the wildfire-prone state. A state of urgency has ...
NAIC to Collect Insurer Data to Understand Property Market Gaps
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners said at its Summer National Meeting that it plans to collect data from insurers in order to help insurance regulators better understand property ...