Melissa Hood woke up to an SUV in her home. While her daughter was stuck in her bedroom, she spoke with the driver, believing him to be one of her brothers.
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As Los Angeles-area residents recover from one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history, California’s insurer of last resort is careening toward another hot and dry summer with its coffers already strained. That’s raising...
As the world gets hotter because of human-caused air pollution, disasters are becoming more frequent and severe, including wildfires. California has been hard-hit in that regard, with the recent Los Angeles fires as a particularly devastating example.Â
Unfortunately, insurers are pulling out of California,...
One of my first visuals of the conflagration in Los Angeles was a video of vehicles on the streets in the Pacific Palisades community being bulldozed to clear room for emergency vehicles. With traffic snarled...
A potential property insurance crisis looms over New Mexico, a wildfire-prone state where more than one in five homeowners (23.3 percent) don't have insurance coverage—according to a recent report by LendingTree—and non-renewals are becoming more common in the most vulnerable areas.That's nearly double...
