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Taves: Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is paving California’s road to hell
A new state insurance regulation, expanding homeowners’ coverage in the most flammable areas, greases the wheels of ...
CA Insurance Commissioner travels world as state burns — Official on hot seat as insurance options dwindle
Media investigations reveal that Ricardo Lara used $30,000 in campaign funds to pay for fancy meals and taxpayers foot the ...
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Mark Jeffers makes short work of Ricardo Lara; Troy Coleman wins a thriller
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – The super middleweight Mark Jeffers, 20-0 (7 KOs), scored a second-round bodyshot stoppage of Mexican ...
CA Insurance Commissioner travels world while state burns — on hot seat for lavish lifestyle as insurance options dwindle
Media investigations reveal that Ricardo Lara used $30,000 in campaign funds to pay for fancy meals and taxpayers foot the ...
McNerney’s taking on water, Newsom and Trump
TUNNEL VISION: Sen. Jerry McNerney is stepping into the fight over one of the biggest modern-day water projects in California ...
Insurer of last resort kept growing. Then L.A. fire victims paid the price
As insurers withdrew from the L.A. market, more homeowners joined the FAIR Plan. Now Jan. 7 fire victims are battling with ...
Cal Fire adds huge new firefighting plane as summer fire season approaches
Retrofitted C-130 cargo plane can fly farther, faster and carry more fire retardant than other Cal Fire aircraft ...
A California environmental law makes it ‘too damn hard’ to build. But do Democrats have the will to reform it?
The law is a favorite tool among the trade unions, which threaten developers with it to extract concessions. Any CEQA reform ...
The CEQA graveyard: Projects delayed by California’s powerful environmental law
CEQA challenges have paralyzed major housing and infrastructure projects around the Bay Area — including apartments located ...
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California approves bill to launch climate insurance innovation program
The California Assembly Insurance Committee has approved Assembly Bill 1236, which proposes the creation of the Climate and ...
Opening the black box of wildfire risk
As in most things property insurance, California is chasing its political foil on the East Coast, Florida, which has had a public, university-developed hurricane catastrophe model for nearly two ...