80 in Oakland everyday yes that is 80 stolen cares every day that is only Oakland.and hundreds are broke into.they just strip them and leave them on the streets.
It's because California makes it against the law to prevent fires. Has a Water Short Shortage. So they can't fight fires. You cut down trees or clear brush for fire breaks. They will fine your ass for Disturbing the wild life Habitat..
because crime in California is out of hand. Property theft and damage claims are through the roof. No one can afford to live in California, but the government can't admit it is the source of the problems.
All 50 states have insurance regulation entities. The great anti-socialist state of Florida even has a socialist company (they call it an "agency") that puts a 1% fee on the bill of all homeowner's in the great anti-socialist state. This is there so that if there is a big storm and a company files bankruptcy, the The Florida Insurance Guaranty Association can still pay out the claim. The National Flood Insurance program operates across all 50 states. The nasty socialist program takes money from every home with a flood insurance policy, so that if a massive storm hits anti-socialist Texas of anti-socialist Florida, there is going to be enough money to pay the claims. Socialism is horrible... Until you need it to get a mortgage on your home.
I guess you live in a small town of 50 where your insurance company can insure your home for 200 a year? The insurance companies been getting billions from Californians for years, and soon as they have to start paying some of that money back on claims they want to leave. Without California, the rest of America is a dumpster fire!
Yeah, what they fail to understand is these are businesses and if they don’t make a profit, they will cease to exist. They aren’t government entities, they don’t have to offer insurance in a state.
If the risk assessment is too high then just change the model! You can actually save money by not paying for actuaries since you’re just going to make up your own number anyway!
It may well be that Ricardo is clueless. But that doesn't explain why the very same thing is happening in other states. Unless, that is, the insurance commissioners of those states are equally clueless.
@@hectoriraheta7017nothing has lifted more people out of extreme poverty in the world then capitalism. Prove me wrong. American capitalism is what allowed the US navy protect global shipping lanes so all countries can import/export their goods to help people improve economy’s. With many county’s relying heavily on imports of food and energy. I could hijack cargo ships from Germany simple cause Germany and 95% of county’s literally lack any boats to protect them beyond 500 miles off their coast.
For most of the state it isn’t an issue. I live in the Central Valley, insurance is the least of my concerns. Air quality is atrocious, but that’s because profits for agribusinesses are more important than the air.
Kinda like Heath Care.... thats why they can charge U $5.00 for a Bandaid & $3,000 for an Ambulance ride.....Guess U only think its Entertaining when its not U or Ur Family ~ But Guess What... U may have to go to the Hospital some day....
@@michaelwells7348 Healthcare is very different. You can reasonably shop around for insurance. If you get into a car accident, however, it's pretty hard to compare different ambulance services. Likewise, wow do you know if a surgeon is good? Yelp?
I had a accident all my medical was paid but many moons later a 2000$ bill for the ambulance ride came . I just laughed said I'm not paying it are you gonna come break my legs again? @@michaelwells7348
@@michaelwells7348You can thank the millions of undocumented people overwhelming hospitals. This free service raises the costs for everyone else that can pay. It works the same for Medicare reimbursement. When the government decides to lower reimbursement rates. Everyone one else's costs go up. This has worked up until recently when hospitals have just started going bankrupt because they can't deal with the overflow of non-paying patients.
totally agree that i think that's what happens. HOWEVER, here in NC, the state supposedly sets the rates but you just KNOW the insurance companies are covering issues they're having in other states, which probably (i think behind closed doors) influences how much we pay here. There really needs to be insurance that is competitive at the national level. And if they don't want to cover a state, they can just be upfront about it.
Right because private business is here to help you. I remember when you were chanting that when Boeing convinced the government to reduce FAA overside of its planes.
Wrong. We need California voters to stop being ignorant. CA voters were chanting defund the police and forced them to get the jab. That in turn made us lose good cops which in turn caused more crime which in turn made these insurance policies too expensive. We gotta start arresting more criminals and lower crime so these insurance companies stay.
Why do I get the feeling this is a DEI candidate, who won for reasons that will preclude him from being able to solve the devasting problems facing our state?
Bingo: Ricardo Lara, the first openly LGBTQ+ statewide elected official in California, secured his reelection bid with the support of Equality California and other progressive groups. He has led efforts to protect consumers, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive freedom and climate action as Insurance Commissioner.
He's never had a job in the private sector. He took money from the insurance lobby when he ran for commissioner in 2018. He's had 6 years in office and yet acts as though all this is a surprise.
Commercial vehicle insurance has skyrocketed since 2022. My $486 a month payments jumped $1900+ a month, for one commercial vehicle. The rampant lawlessness in California has led insurance companies to flee and those who have stayed have significantly increased rates. All the car theft and break in, all those home robberies, all the retail business theft, etc., insurance companies are losing big time. The results, everyone who isn't a crook, suffers!
@@TruthFictionI bet most will leave and the rest will just raise the prices to insane levels that no one but the richest can afford. Government will be baffled as to why it's happening and blame capitalism and these rich companies for taking advantage. Some how democrats will be voted in again and the cycle continues.
@@Dalik1000 They're already having that happen. Several companies no longer accept new policies and the rates on existing ones are going higher and higher to cover the costs of claims from those holders. Democrats in the state government think they can legislate their way out of the problem, but forget they can't actually force a business to remain operating in their state.
Yes. They increased rates because of the crime and home burglaries. That was cause because of higher crime. Californians kept chanting to defund the police and force them to get the jab. We lost good cops and now there’s more crime and now insurers are saying there’s too much risk in CA. I used to sell insurance. Blame the CA voter.
So true and don't you dare make a legitimate claim such as a natural disaster of some sort. They will drop ya like a hot potato. Sickening. I wish for deregulation...states should make HI voluntary.
I don't understand. All the premiums you paid already add up to the cost of replacing the house... ad up to the beneficiary amount you would ever receive. You could have just had it sitting there in some account by now.
Then don't buy home insurance. You're not forced to buy it unlike Auto correct? How about CA try to minimize natural disasters? Cut down some trees so wildfires don't burn down people's homes all the time. Funny you only hear of homes being burned down from wildfires in CA
He campaigned saying he wouldn't take money from insurers. He then accepted their lobbying money to campaign for office. He knows exactly what he is doing - same as all the other CA legislature.
According to Ms. Balber she wants to force insurance companies to sell insurance to people who do the "right thing to protect their homes " And pray tell, what is the right thing to protect their homes?
if i recall he was busy advocating to allow the insurance companies to raise rates. That's not a popular take but one that is necessary if people still want the insurance companies to remain in state. I'm not sure he's the problem here.
@@bsgvlog5640 Where does it end though? The cost of gas is ridiculous in California. Tax rates are ridiculous on everything when you have multiple entities taxing you. Rent is sky high. The average person is struggling to live. AT what point is it too much?
Its because the CA government does not allow insurance companies to raise rates. Insurence companies are loosing money in the State. Geico has had 5 rounds of layoffs in the last year.
Poor state governance and policies or pack thereof have made the state a liability risk beyond risk, who in their right mind d would keep underwriting, look at stolen vehicles rates, etc and still the state has not worked out a half decent bushfire mitigation program that they can do something about, earthquakes not so much but building design and regulation is so far behind other countries that have earthquakes its criminal negligence on the part of politicians, so much time money etc spent on clean air policies to end up with a state you cannot afford to live in and no longer want to
Homeowner insurance is optional in California. California does not require it, but you may still be required to have it when somebody else requires it like your mortgage company. Nobody will lend you money if you do not have insurance in case your house burns down and they are left on the hook for a pile of rubble. Once your mortgage is paid off or you don't have one, homeowners are free to not have any homeowner insurance. If there was no home insurance being offered, mortgages will be impossible to get or the rates will be so high to compensate them for the risk of loss. Our progressive democrat government in California needs to stop worrying about transgender bathroom issues and fix our insurance market.
@@boostedmaniac Yes, it is required if you have a mortgage, but if you don't have a mortgage, you don't need to have homeowner insurance. About 1/3 of all houses in California do not have mortgages (typically houses owned by the same elderly homeowner for many many years). The requirement is not by the state of California, but is required by your lender.
Progressives, i.e. communists, don’t believe in private property ownership. They want to destroy the middle classes and any “American Dream” that remains in California. By keeping housing inventories low, prices high, risks high, now insurers leaving so choices are reduced and more expensive, THIS HAS BEEN THE DNC PLAN for decades. People are just too dumb to see it. Keep voting for the democrats you herd of morons
@@edwoo1005agree but I would think it would be unwise to not have insurance in my opinion. I’m not going to risk it mortgage or not haha. Perhaps there are areas of CA that are super cheap and the condition of the house may not warrant it.
When you said that, did you realize it didn’t make any sense in the context of what’s happening here? The companies are leaving. Why would they give him money? they can leave for free
You can't force an business to lose money. That's not how it works. If the local government makes regulations that puts the insurance companies in the red then they will leave. They don't have to do business here which is what's happening now. Why people can't understand this is really mind boggling.
I seem to remember when there was a branch volcanic eruption with a lava flow in your area a number of homes were destroyed by that lava flow. Insurance companies do not like to insure in an area where there is a very high chance of a repeat performance.
Woman is proposing getting rid of insurance in California. You live in chaparral hillsides or pine or oak forest, hey, you probably need to be self-insured, because only an idiot would write you a policy. Why? Average CA home price is not $250k any more. Seems to be around $450 to $600k. The cost of replacing homes is way up.
Yeah...I'll say it out loud. It's pure hypocrisy by many of these people who brag about how their homes have tripled in price over a few years ( as though they actually had something to do about it) yet whine when everything else inflates. Getting very tired of people in million dollar plus homes talking about how rough it is.
@@weirdshibainu bud, the home is only worth anything when you sell it. people living in a lot of these "million dollar" homes lived there since they were 100-200k, and are not rich. it's actually hard to own a home even with low mortgage like that because you still pay property taxes, insurance, income taxes, and a lot of maintenance is coming due. sounds like you have some personal issues with imaginary rich people, but don't know anything about the actual owners
@@leok7193First....I'm not your bud. I understand what it costs to own a home...BECAUSE I OWN ONE...I don't have a personal issue with "imaginary rich people" What I stated was a fact.....many want to have their cake and eat it to. My costs have gone up, but my home equity has outpaced it. It's not that hard to figure out. Sounds like you're playing the victim
@@donaldkasper8346 um no. value goes up because of the land and goes down with the age of structure. replacing a home on the same plot of land is much cheaper than selling or buying it. raw building materials and labor aren't that expensive
California doesn't require homeowners insurance by law. If you truly believe that insurance companies (IC) are just here after your money, don't buy any! If you want or need insurance, California Insider just nailed this issue with their last video. Prices have to go up. Paradise CA lost 11,000 homes. Only 2115 have been rebuilt so far. More homes are still on the waiting list in Santa Rosa. Since 2019, costs increased by at least 30%. Today, cleanup/rebuilding can easily top $1 million, going up. With an average premium of $1500/year in CA, all IC can go bankrupt if a huge fire destroy any major city in the bay area.
Socialism works until you run out of everybody's money. Who do you tax when there's no business. If no one "feels" like working and we all get social redistribution there would be no production, no incentive to innovate or get ahead. Regulated Capitalism, with the warts and bruises is superior to socialism.@@Bootyeater999
Hey genius California may not require insurance but your mortgage lender definitly will don’t know anyone wil a pile of million cash to pay off their house to not buy insurance
Even those who have paid off their properties, what about them? I had a $9K water pipe break, insurance paid me $5K and then 100% raised my rates 2 months later at renewal. They are filth, only after easy money.@@arlen4
Commissioner has accepted money from insurance lobbyists and then gave these multi-billions corporations a 20%+ rate increase while they made all time high revenue the last 2 years. They're public traded corps, google their revenue. Vote him out!
Especially those who decide to build in areas that are prone to fire and flood… they should be required to pay a much higher premium if not be self insured to a certain percentage. @@donaldkasper8346
We cannot get a mortgage or keep our current mortgage without homeowner's insurance. The bank will cancel your loan unless you can come up with the insurance. I know this because four of my neighbors, including my sister's home lost their insurance because of this State Farm pullout. It is nearly impossible to replace the insurance, if you manage to find a company that will insure your home it is being quoted at 10-15 times higher than the canceled insurance.
Neighbors tree fell on my property, State farm sent me a check the same day I sent them the photos. Said if that wasn't enough, just have the contractors send them the bill and it would all be covered. Seems they are there for me every time I file a claim because I know what my policy covers.
@@Numba1hunna83 Or hear me out...the insurance company is just plain greedy and wants to ONLY extract money but not dish any of it out like it's supposed to. I know I know, it's almost as if insurance companies should be non-profit organizations but in reality they are.
@@smpiano6605 Insurance companies are a business. They deserve a profit for their risk. Don't like it then don't buy insurance. Let me know how that goes for ya.
Insurance companies in California are leaving because of the high cost of fire insurance. I am an old man. I live in northern California. We didn't have bad forrest fires when I was a kid. Logging companies thinned the woods out with their logging of the forest. Environmentalists and the spotted owl stopped much of the logging. The result is that the forests are densely packed, waiting for lightning or humans to cause massive blazes.
When you repeat these slogans without thinking, does it ever occur to you? They don’t actually apply. The problem here is the way rating increases are calculated in California. So yes, the only way to fix it would be to change the law.
What they need to do is make it easier to open an insurance business in California and cut red tape so it can beopened up to the free market like before they over regulated it.
That woman from the consumer watchdog had a great idea...if you want zero insurance companies in your state. Prop 103 is the biggest problem and the guy who runs consumer watchdog helped write it. You can't force companies to insure in your state and make them lose billions doing it. We need options and competition. AKA, free market.
Last year my friend crashed my car into another car.. Shortly afterwards, my insurance company asked me if I was willing to allow the insurance company to disclose the limits of my coverages to the lawyer, because the lawyer was asking for it. That in and of itself gives lawyers a free pass to see the maximum they can litigate for, which is non-sense. If this is the case, then I'll just keep my limits at the bare minimum, and not pay the higher premium.
State Farm decided that they didn’t want to write Home Owners Insurance in Florida. Our Insurance Commissioner told them that they couldn’t write car insurance then. State Farm then continued to write Home Insurance, but jacked their rates up to where it was unaffordable for most.
I HAVE LIVED HERE SINCE 1946, 3 HOMES, LIVERMORE, SAN RAMON AND NOW BREA, I HAVEN'T HAD MORE THAN A TOTAL OF AROUND 100 DOLLARS DAMAGE FROM AN EARTHQUAKE, AND NO FIRES IN THIS AREA, SO WE SHOULD PAY MORE?
Florida is R country, and insurance has bailed on them to. So is it a corrupt D, R, or greedy corporation that could insure everyone if it held long term financing rather than short term profits.
I USED to do business in CA. Did you get the tense? Their policies and laws are NOT business friendly. Sorry but the voters are getting EXACTLY what they approved at the ballot box.
In the 1920s two german immigrant bros moved to Illinois and worked for other ppl. saved 1/2 thier money. bought their own land. before you knew it GJ Mecherle was the go to guy to borrow money from. Being a farmer in Bloomington Illiois he was tired of paying high auto insurance . City ppl had more acciddents yaddy yadda. So he thought, I will start my own insurance company and sell to only safe farmers. The first "agent" was Charles Wonderlin and soon everybody was insured by State Farm Insurance. So you and I can start our own Insurance company and sell it to ppl in low risk areas. High risk areas will cost more. Unless you think the good guys should pay for the high risk guys. Add in the crime costing billions and... ... Thats what happened . Too much risk. When I left this big insurance co, for every dollar they collected they paid out $1.20 in claims. Kept afloat by investing the other billion the co brings in. Keep them from making money on auto, fire or health, or a bank, then why should they stay here. They are regulated and pay back policyholders if they make too much, beacause it's mandated. big middle finger to the bad management of the once great state.
Not sure why state of California is surprised? My car insurance was doable. Have payed year after year and instead of getting a loyalty discount or a safe driver discount, it keeps going up over 75 dollars every 6 months.
So, ALL the YEARS Californian's Paid into that system, and Because they are Over exposed and had to pay out some... they just get to cancel? They deserve a refund or something. BS.
That is what my gut is telling me they know something they are not telling us but I know people in USGA at cal state and they have been telling us this for years but maybe the insurance company’s hired a remote viewer to see the near future and they want out but know that they just can’t leave altogether 😮
California isn't the only one. Florida is in an insurance crisis because companies are pulling out. DeSantis told the big companies that if they did not offer home insurance, he would not let them sell car insurance ( you know, The GOP wants less regulation, but that is only something they say). Florida had to create its own socialist company called The Florida Insurance Guaranty Association. The FIGA puts a 1% fee on any home insurance sold anywhere in the state and puts this into a pool. This money would be used in the event of some giant natural disaster bankrupting some insurance companies. The socialist IFGA would use the money it takes from homeowners everywhere in the state to then pay the claims left on the table by the failed insurance company. The Federal government has its own socialist insurance program called the National Flood Insurance Program. A long time ago, insurance companies stopped writing insurance in coastal areas prone to hurricane flooding. The government had do do something or millions of homes would not be insurable. The horrible US socialist government worked out a deal with the insurance companies to disconnect flood insurance from the rest of the insurance, like fire or wind damage so this greatly reduced their risk. Now, the coastal citizens of the great anti-socialist states like Texas, Louisiana, and Florida (where the vast majority of flood insurance is sold can get flood insurance. Because everyone in the US that needs flood insurance pays into the NFIP, if there is a huge flooding event in Florida, the money collected from all of the rest of the country can be used to pay the claims in good old anti-socialist Florida. Socialism is evil... Until you need it... Then, suddenly, it doesn't look all that bad. No profits made by either FIGA or NFIP. All money collected is used to pay claims when needed.
Actually a good thing to look at, a tornado destroys a couple dozen houses, a CA statewide fire or flood event destroys or damages tens of thousands. So, tornadoes create a smaller risk.
It’s illegal to protect your home and business in California. Insurance in California is a guaranteed loss. Only California people don’t see the issues
I don’t see why they just can’t do a state insurance fund. They can only be used to rebuild homes and compensate for car damage and basically make it nonprofit make it affordable so like he said, once you get more people on it becomes cheaper.
easy, you just get an insurance company that doesn't spend all the monthly money you give them trying to compete with GEICO for how many useless commercials they can make, I found a no name small insurance company thats been around 70 years and ive been very happy……NEWSFLASH if the company airs commercials every 30 minutes YOU are paying for it
Can't possibly imagine why a company would want to leave California. I mean crime is up, unemployment is up, minimum wage is up, inflation is up, homelessness is up, property damage is up, cost of living is up, the cost of electricity is up, the cost of gas/fuel is up, etc. etc. etc.
Yes and you have some good points in your comment but you're missing out on bad policy and it's the sole reason why insurance companies are pulling out.
It's mandatory to have insurance in CA. But its been a hassle to get a renewal. You have to basically find just anyone at this point that would insure you.
Good!! Better yet, State Farm should completely leave the state of CA all together.. All insurance companies should that way we go back to the old way of insurance being OPTIONAL and not a requirement anymore.. It’s time we ALL took accountability for our mistakes.. you crash, you pay.. you caused a fire to your house, you pay.. I’m sick and tired of the excuse of my premium increase being because of “increased claims and costs”… I’m not interested in paying for others mistakes/fraud..
Hey, Shallow Thinker, the people on Paradise didn't cause the wildfire that burned their town down. If you point out that PG&E was to blame, think about all the homes destroyed by wildfires started by lightning strikes.
@@Stevefor1776 Hey, undeveloped female dog, in those situations you would do what you call “sue” PG&E… If everyone sues that’s called a “class action”… Want me to spell class action for you too?..
@@geneheck LOL, You're kidding, right? One of the biggest insurers in the US is good old socialist Uncle Sam. Without Uncle Sam being in the game millions and millions of homes in the US would not be insurable and would become worthless overnight. Here is the deal. A long time ago, insurance companies stopped writhing insurance in flood prone areas. The damage from flooding was often so severe that insurers would go bankrupt when big storms it. The nasty old socialist Uncle Sam stepped in and said "here's the deal. If you will write the insurance for wind damage fire damage, and everything else, we will create a socialist business that will cover the flooding. That socialist business is called the National Flood Insurance Program The way the NFIP works is that no matter where you live in the US, if you need flood insurance, that money goes into a pool. Now, even if a horrible flood strikes the great anti-socialist state of Florida, the NFIP gives the insurance companies the money to pay the flood insurance damage. Without the NFIP, homes along the coasts or near larger rivers prone to flooding would not be able to get insurance. Yeah, socialism is horrible... Until you need it. The great anti-socialist state of Florida has the The Florida Insurance Guaranty Association. This socialist program adds 1% to the cost of any insurance policy written in the state. The money it collects goes into a pool that would be used to pay out claims if an insurance company went bankrupt after a large disaster. How socialist of them! California should do the same for home in wildfire areas. They could create an program that offers insurance from damage caused by wildfires alone and tell the insurance companies they no longer have to insure for it. Because the NFIP, FIGA, and any program that Califonia came up with are socialist programs, the are non-profits so don't pay any taxes because they have no earnings, and they don't have to pay the CEO $20,000,000 a year. But everyone hates socialism, so I guess that is a bad idea.
There is nothing as amazing as a government employee thinking they know more than someone in industry, then making decisions that make it untenable for the business to stay open, and finally blaming the business.
MR insurance commissioner it is YOUR job now to make sure when those 70,000 customers disperse their money to these other insurance companies thats the rates DONT go up being the companies will have enough money made off gaining new customers with State farm leaving
That's the STUPIDEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD.
They'll quit insuring cars.
Has anyone noticed how many cars are stolen or wrecked?
80 in Oakland everyday yes that is 80 stolen cares every day that is only Oakland.and hundreds are broke into.they just strip them and leave them on the streets.
This has nothing to do with9t
No one owes you anything. Insurance is a business not a charity.
With how expensive and easy to total these new EV are, I wouldn’t be surprised if they stop renewing auto insurance.
@@Paul-sk2pc you don’t make sense.
How about reporting why state farm is leaving? The report is poor.
Could it have anything to do with the massive number of claims?
It's because California makes it against the law to prevent fires. Has a Water Short Shortage. So they can't fight fires. You cut down trees or clear brush for fire breaks. They will fine your ass for Disturbing the wild life Habitat..
Because regulations have made some properties a very bad risk. Solution here in Commifornia: MORE of same sort of regulations imposed.
because crime in California is out of hand. Property theft and damage claims are through the roof. No one can afford to live in California, but the government can't admit it is the source of the problems.
Simple, these homes are in high risk areas, such as areas where fire is driven by the Santa Anna winds.
The insurance companies are tired of California’s stupid policies.
All 50 states have insurance regulation entities. The great anti-socialist state of Florida even has a socialist company (they call it an "agency") that puts a 1% fee on the bill of all homeowner's in the great anti-socialist state. This is there so that if there is a big storm and a company files bankruptcy, the The Florida Insurance Guaranty Association can still pay out the claim. The National Flood Insurance program operates across all 50 states. The nasty socialist program takes money from every home with a flood insurance policy, so that if a massive storm hits anti-socialist Texas of anti-socialist Florida, there is going to be enough money to pay the claims. Socialism is horrible... Until you need it to get a mortgage on your home.
Yes, the insurance companies are also tired of Florida’s stupid policies.
@neilkurzman4907 wrong. It's the hurricane issue in Florida not the government. Take the L in California, liberal.
Have you heard of Florida, imbecile?
Welcome to the Capital of Democrats aka California. 😁
Watchdog lady: “We need a law to force insurance companies to write policies in CA.” No wonder they want to GTFO of there! They’re nuts!
Agreed.
gobernment needs to control all things according this lady. haha
You and your boy, Harvey Rosenfield are profiting off this stupid, antiquated landscape. "Watchdgo" my ass.
I guess you live in a small town of 50 where your insurance company can insure your home for 200 a year? The insurance companies been getting billions from Californians for years, and soon as they have to start paying some of that money back on claims they want to leave. Without California, the rest of America is a dumpster fire!
Yeah, what they fail to understand is these are businesses and if they don’t make a profit, they will cease to exist. They aren’t government entities, they don’t have to offer insurance in a state.
Did I miss the part where anyone asks the question why these companies are not underwriting anymore in California?
Too much risk according to them. Wildfires. Insurance companies don't actually wanna pay out for anything.
@@dm8296 According to THEM, they paid out in the last 5-8 years 125% more than what they took in the past 15-20 years.
California insider channel covers the reason. They are at 60% of so and so.
Not just california, I hear imsurance are also not insuring florida becuase of the hurricanes
It’s too hard to raise rates. It’s over regulated by the state.
"This is a real crisis"......that you created.
Didn't California say that Climate Change would cause fires and floods? So, State Farm listened.
Exactly, Ricardo is clueless, no business being insurance commissioner. Dumbbo wants to see the carriers financials? It's public
And he's a crook deluxe.@@cvshav
If the risk assessment is too high then just change the model! You can actually save money by not paying for actuaries since you’re just going to make up your own number anyway!
It may well be that Ricardo is clueless. But that doesn't explain why the very same thing is happening in other states. Unless, that is, the insurance commissioners of those states are equally clueless.
"That's the California Way" Gov. Newsom
The American capilisim at its finest mot California just your American bs politics
@@hectoriraheta7017nothing has lifted more people out of extreme poverty in the world then capitalism. Prove me wrong. American capitalism is what allowed the US navy protect global shipping lanes so all countries can import/export their goods to help people improve economy’s. With many county’s relying heavily on imports of food and energy. I could hijack cargo ships from Germany simple cause Germany and 95% of county’s literally lack any boats to protect them beyond 500 miles off their coast.
"That's also the Florida way" - Gov. DeSantis 🤡
you can always move!!!!!!!!!!
Newsomomics in full effect
When you're appointed to a job that you know absolutely nothing about or have any prior experience this is what you get.
CA Insurance Commissioner is a statewide elected position.
ARE U TALKING ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN?
Lara, a democrat, was elected with 57.9% of the vote in 2018, and again in 2022. Elections have consequences. He sure sounds like he's befuddled
@@7c8f9xThe whole Biden administration
correct box checked
California is a beautiful state, but bad policies have made it nearly impossible to live there
For most of the state it isn’t an issue. I live in the Central Valley, insurance is the least of my concerns. Air quality is atrocious, but that’s because profits for agribusinesses are more important than the air.
Insurance companies are in the money making business not customer business.
Kinda like Heath Care.... thats why they can charge U $5.00 for a Bandaid & $3,000 for an Ambulance ride.....Guess U only think its Entertaining when its not U or Ur Family ~ But Guess What... U may have to go to the Hospital some day....
@@michaelwells7348 Healthcare is very different. You can reasonably shop around for insurance. If you get into a car accident, however, it's pretty hard to compare different ambulance services. Likewise, wow do you know if a surgeon is good? Yelp?
I had a accident all my medical was paid but many moons later a 2000$ bill for the ambulance ride came . I just laughed said I'm not paying it are you gonna come break my legs again? @@michaelwells7348
That's every company! Insurance companies aren't Charity organizations.
@@michaelwells7348You can thank the millions of undocumented people overwhelming hospitals. This free service raises the costs for everyone else that can pay. It works the same for Medicare reimbursement. When the government decides to lower reimbursement rates. Everyone one else's costs go up. This has worked up until recently when hospitals have just started going bankrupt because they can't deal with the overflow of non-paying patients.
I appreciate that State Farm is willing to not over expose itself in California so as not to adversely effect the rest of us.
Except that is exactly what they are doing.
@@WingWalker1 Yeah I know and I appreciate it. I don't live in California and don't want to pay for their stupidity. Thank you State Farm.
totally agree that i think that's what happens. HOWEVER, here in NC, the state supposedly sets the rates but you just KNOW the insurance companies are covering issues they're having in other states, which probably (i think behind closed doors) influences how much we pay here. There really needs to be insurance that is competitive at the national level. And if they don't want to cover a state, they can just be upfront about it.
That’s not how insurance works.
@@neilkurzman4907except that's is exactly what they are doing.
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help"
REAGAN WARNED ABOUT THIS
Right because private business is here to help you. I remember when you were chanting that when Boeing convinced the government to reduce FAA overside of its planes.
@@neilkurzman4907 what's an overside?
We don't need new companies...We need a New Commisioner.
Wrong. We need California voters to stop being ignorant. CA voters were chanting defund the police and forced them to get the jab. That in turn made us lose good cops which in turn caused more crime which in turn made these insurance policies too expensive. We gotta start arresting more criminals and lower crime so these insurance companies stay.
You mean new leadership in California
yet, the CEOs and the executive teams are making billions in BONUSES annually!
It's that line of thinking that got you here...What's a new commissioner going to do? Force them to provide services at a loss?
And you need new conservative legislators, not these woke people you have ruining your state
Why do I get the feeling this is a DEI candidate, who won for reasons that will preclude him from being able to solve the devasting problems facing our state?
Bingo: Ricardo Lara, the first openly LGBTQ+ statewide elected official in California, secured his reelection bid with the support of Equality California and other progressive groups. He has led efforts to protect consumers, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive freedom and climate action as Insurance Commissioner.
This is what the public gets for voting for this clown s hit
Another failed booty bandit.
He's never had a job in the private sector. He took money from the insurance lobby when he ran for commissioner in 2018. He's had 6 years in office and yet acts as though all this is a surprise.
Where’s he from originally?
Commercial vehicle insurance has skyrocketed since 2022. My $486 a month payments jumped $1900+ a month, for one commercial vehicle. The rampant lawlessness in California has led insurance companies to flee and those who have stayed have significantly increased rates. All the car theft and break in, all those home robberies, all the retail business theft, etc., insurance companies are losing big time. The results, everyone who isn't a crook, suffers!
If you force them to sell insurance they will just have very high fees.
no, what it causes is OTHER companies to jack up prices, then you complain about living wage,, wages go up and before you know it a taco is $100
No, they'll just pull out of the state completely.
@@TruthFictionI bet most will leave and the rest will just raise the prices to insane levels that no one but the richest can afford. Government will be baffled as to why it's happening and blame capitalism and these rich companies for taking advantage.
Some how democrats will be voted in again and the cycle continues.
@@Dalik1000 They're already having that happen. Several companies no longer accept new policies and the rates on existing ones are going higher and higher to cover the costs of claims from those holders. Democrats in the state government think they can legislate their way out of the problem, but forget they can't actually force a business to remain operating in their state.
The problem is that these politicians don't know what they are doing.
thats putting it mildly.
False! The citizens are delusional and voted for this craziness.
30 years with no at fault accident. This year STATE FARM INCREASED MY PREMIUM BY 20 PLUS %
Do you understand how insurance works?
Farmer increase my insurance as well. I think it's every company out there.
Didn't California say that Climate Change would cause fires and floods? So, State Farm listened.
Blame the Kia Bois for your rates going up. You might not drive a Kia but other people do.
Yes. They increased rates because of the crime and home burglaries. That was cause because of higher crime. Californians kept chanting to defund the police and force them to get the jab. We lost good cops and now there’s more crime and now insurers are saying there’s too much risk in CA. I used to sell insurance. Blame the CA voter.
State Farm only wants clients like me who pay exorbitant rates for decades and never make a claim. Pure profit for them 🤬
So true and don't you dare make a legitimate claim such as a natural disaster of some sort. They will drop ya like a hot potato. Sickening. I wish for deregulation...states should make HI voluntary.
Its a requirment of your Mortage and car loan. Try owning with out it
I don't understand. All the premiums you paid already add up to the cost of replacing the house... ad up to the beneficiary amount you would ever receive. You could have just had it sitting there in some account by now.
word state farm is there.
Then don't buy home insurance. You're not forced to buy it unlike Auto correct? How about CA try to minimize natural disasters? Cut down some trees so wildfires don't burn down people's homes all the time. Funny you only hear of homes being burned down from wildfires in CA
State Farm's new slogan: Like a good neighbor State Farm disappears...
Would you want to be near Kalifornia?
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I would from a state of nutbags like California.
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How’s that Florida insurance market doing.
That commissioner doesn't know what he's doing
He campaigned saying he wouldn't take money from insurers. He then accepted their lobbying money to campaign for office. He knows exactly what he is doing - same as all the other CA legislature.
He has degree in English, no insurance or business background. Only because he’s a LBTQ….
That's what happens when the government implements DEI.
He knows EXACTLY what he's doing.
I guess their jingle needs to change to , ... State Farm is *NOT* there....
LOL
♫ LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR STATE FARM AIN'T THERE ♫
State Farm is there, alright-for its own profit interests. Customers’ welfare doesn’t matter. Loyalty to long time paying customers doesn’t matter.
LIKE A GOOD HOMELESS NEIGHBOR
@@kepckatherinec805well when they ensure cars and property that gets destroyed by crime , why shoukd they pay for it?
According to Ms. Balber she wants to force insurance companies to sell insurance to people who do the "right thing to protect their homes " And pray tell, what is the right thing to protect their homes?
They have to build pyramids in their backyards and pray to the earthquake gods. That's the California way!
Insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara needs to step down.
if i recall he was busy advocating to allow the insurance companies to raise rates. That's not a popular take but one that is necessary if people still want the insurance companies to remain in state. I'm not sure he's the problem here.
@@bsgvlog5640I’m not sure he isn’t the problem, him and the rest of his ilk running this state.
@@stevelopez372😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@bsgvlog5640 Where does it end though? The cost of gas is ridiculous in California. Tax rates are ridiculous on everything when you have multiple entities taxing you. Rent is sky high. The average person is struggling to live. AT what point is it too much?
Its because the CA government does not allow insurance companies to raise rates. Insurence companies are loosing money in the State. Geico has had 5 rounds of layoffs in the last year.
Poor state governance and policies or pack thereof have made the state a liability risk beyond risk, who in their right mind d would keep underwriting, look at stolen vehicles rates, etc and still the state has not worked out a half decent bushfire mitigation program that they can do something about, earthquakes not so much but building design and regulation is so far behind other countries that have earthquakes its criminal negligence on the part of politicians, so much time money etc spent on clean air policies to end up with a state you cannot afford to live in and no longer want to
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Now do Florida
Homeowner insurance is optional in California. California does not require it, but you may still be required to have it when somebody else requires it like your mortgage company. Nobody will lend you money if you do not have insurance in case your house burns down and they are left on the hook for a pile of rubble. Once your mortgage is paid off or you don't have one, homeowners are free to not have any homeowner insurance. If there was no home insurance being offered, mortgages will be impossible to get or the rates will be so high to compensate them for the risk of loss.
Our progressive democrat government in California needs to stop worrying about transgender bathroom issues and fix our insurance market.
I believe it’s required if you have mortgage.
@@boostedmaniac Yes, it is required if you have a mortgage, but if you don't have a mortgage, you don't need to have homeowner insurance. About 1/3 of all houses in California do not have mortgages (typically houses owned by the same elderly homeowner for many many years). The requirement is not by the state of California, but is required by your lender.
Progressives, i.e. communists, don’t believe in private property ownership. They want to destroy the middle classes and any “American Dream” that remains in California. By keeping housing inventories low, prices high, risks high, now insurers leaving so choices are reduced and more expensive, THIS HAS BEEN THE DNC PLAN for decades. People are just too dumb to see it. Keep voting for the democrats you herd of morons
@@edwoo1005agree but I would think it would be unwise to not have insurance in my opinion. I’m not going to risk it mortgage or not haha. Perhaps there are areas of CA that are super cheap and the condition of the house may not warrant it.
Auto Insurance is so bad also
@@EVS-w1mwhere you dictates your policy rates
Open border to the chop shops.
If your car is paid for. U r not required to have insurance.
1 way to save some $$
he sounds lost and has no plans
Correct he has no plan. When Insurance companies, did not submit rates for 2024 and 2025 to write policies here in California that was the first clue.
California bureaucrat rising up in the machine to where $500k a year on the public dole is within reach. SF is an accelerator in the process.
Sucks to suck. Politicians are the problem more laws ain't gonna fix it
Wonder how much money he pocketed from insurance companies
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None. That’s why they are leaving, duh 🙄
Not enough. Look at his absurd jacket.
When you said that, did you realize it didn’t make any sense in the context of what’s happening here? The companies are leaving. Why would they give him money? they can leave for free
Is it any wonder why people are leaving in droves?
And they come to red states and still vote for same foolish Dems policies
I tried to buy a drove, but those things are in short supply!
You can't force an business to lose money. That's not how it works. If the local government makes regulations that puts the insurance companies in the red then they will leave. They don't have to do business here which is what's happening now. Why people can't understand this is really mind boggling.
People in California don’t understand reality and they also lack common sense. Just look at the officials they elect on regular basis!
Can't get insurance where I live on the Big Island Hawaii due to volcano and lava zone hazard
That’s about right
I seem to remember when there was a branch volcanic eruption with a lava flow in your area a number of homes were destroyed by that lava flow. Insurance companies do not like to insure in an area where there is a very high chance of a repeat performance.
Like a bad neighbor, State Farm ain’t there
Then how about you being a good neighbor and open an insurance co? You would have an instant customer base.
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@@bobroberts2371 no thanks. I’m a bad neighbor
@@ericdraven4445 But you could make $$$$$ by charging a bit less. Why would you pass up $$$?
Woman is proposing getting rid of insurance in California. You live in chaparral hillsides or pine or oak forest, hey, you probably need to be self-insured, because only an idiot would write you a policy. Why? Average CA home price is not $250k any more. Seems to be around $450 to $600k. The cost of replacing homes is way up.
Yeah...I'll say it out loud. It's pure hypocrisy by many of these people who brag about how their homes have tripled in price over a few years ( as though they actually had something to do about it) yet whine when everything else inflates. Getting very tired of people in million dollar plus homes talking about how rough it is.
@@weirdshibainu bud, the home is only worth anything when you sell it. people living in a lot of these "million dollar" homes lived there since they were 100-200k, and are not rich. it's actually hard to own a home even with low mortgage like that because you still pay property taxes, insurance, income taxes, and a lot of maintenance is coming due.
sounds like you have some personal issues with imaginary rich people, but don't know anything about the actual owners
@@leok7193 Home triples in value means the replacement cost is triple. That means over triple the premium increase is needed.
@@leok7193First....I'm not your bud. I understand what it costs to own a home...BECAUSE I OWN ONE...I don't have a personal issue with "imaginary rich people" What I stated was a fact.....many want to have their cake and eat it to. My costs have gone up, but my home equity has outpaced it. It's not that hard to figure out. Sounds like you're playing the victim
@@donaldkasper8346 um no. value goes up because of the land and goes down with the age of structure. replacing a home on the same plot of land is much cheaper than selling or buying it. raw building materials and labor aren't that expensive
Could it be that the state’s trying to force them out and have an insurance monopoly like the earthquake coverage (CEA)?
CA doesn't have enough money, they are already in debt up to their eyeballs.
Sadly, California government is pushing for Nationalization.
California doesn't require homeowners insurance by law. If you truly believe that insurance companies (IC) are just here after your money, don't buy any!
If you want or need insurance, California Insider just nailed this issue with their last video. Prices have to go up.
Paradise CA lost 11,000 homes. Only 2115 have been rebuilt so far. More homes are still on the waiting list in Santa Rosa. Since 2019, costs increased by at least 30%. Today, cleanup/rebuilding can easily top $1 million, going up. With an average premium of $1500/year in CA, all IC can go bankrupt if a huge fire destroy any major city in the bay area.
And this justifies a 100% rate increase? Because my insurance just did that. Go somewhere else you say? There is nowhere else!
This just go to show you everything in this country shouldn’t be for profit. Capitalism right.😂
Socialism works until you run out of everybody's money. Who do you tax when there's no business. If no one "feels" like working and we all get social redistribution there would be no production, no incentive to innovate or get ahead.
Regulated Capitalism, with the warts and bruises is superior to socialism.@@Bootyeater999
Hey genius California may not require insurance but your mortgage lender definitly will don’t know anyone wil a pile of million cash to pay off their house to not buy insurance
Even those who have paid off their properties, what about them? I had a $9K water pipe break, insurance paid me $5K and then 100% raised my rates 2 months later at renewal. They are filth, only after easy money.@@arlen4
Commissioner has accepted money from insurance lobbyists and then gave these multi-billions corporations a 20%+ rate increase while they made all time high revenue the last 2 years. They're public traded corps, google their revenue. Vote him out!
Price of homes is up 3 times from a decade ago, meaning the cost of replacement is up 3 times meaning your insurance needs to go up 3 times.
Especially those who decide to build in areas that are prone to fire and flood… they should be required to pay a much higher premium if not be self insured to a certain percentage. @@donaldkasper8346
But you love one party democrat rule
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@@Liberalcali this is happening in Florida, too, and at an alarming level. Stop being ignorant and do some research.
Why would any insurance company do business in CA?
Why would ANY company want to do business in Ca?
We cannot get a mortgage or keep our current mortgage without homeowner's insurance. The bank will cancel your loan unless you can come up with the insurance. I know this because four of my neighbors, including my sister's home lost their insurance because of this State Farm pullout. It is nearly impossible to replace the insurance, if you manage to find a company that will insure your home it is being quoted at 10-15 times higher than the canceled insurance.
Boy, but they are quick to take your money for premiums and the government for taxes.
Didn't California say that Climate Change would cause fires and floods? So, State Farm listened.
Neighbors tree fell on my property, State farm sent me a check the same day I sent them the photos. Said if that wasn't enough, just have the contractors send them the bill and it would all be covered. Seems they are there for me every time I file a claim because I know what my policy covers.
So you expect the company to lose money? You don’t seem to understand how insurance works or taxes for that matter
Problem, reaction, solution. Government creates problems to generate more money for themselves.
You make them sound like they were a business.
California overregulation caused this problem.
@@EVS-w1m There is when you regulate it to the point where the insurance company leaves the state.
@@Numba1hunna83 Or hear me out...the insurance company is just plain greedy and wants to ONLY extract money but not dish any of it out like it's supposed to. I know I know, it's almost as if insurance companies should be non-profit organizations but in reality they are.
@@smpiano6605 Insurance companies are a business. They deserve a profit for their risk. Don't like it then don't buy insurance. Let me know how that goes for ya.
Sounds like we need a new insurance commissioner.
Why should insurance companies stay in CA when record numbers of people are leaving?
Insurance companies in California are leaving because of the high cost of fire insurance. I am an old man. I live in northern California. We didn't have bad forrest fires when I was a kid. Logging companies thinned the woods out with their logging of the forest. Environmentalists and the spotted owl stopped much of the logging. The result is that the forests are densely packed, waiting for lightning or humans to cause massive blazes.
It’s a corrupt insurance oversight system. 🤔
Smart Business... No one in the right mind would ensure someone from California .. democrats turned California into a third world country
No ..Democrats are corrupt
So the commission agrees you need to pay more, and you get mad at the commission?
California Politicians, the gift that keeps giving. I live in California.
Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there
People submit claims for robbery, theft and vandalism, THOSE HAVE SKYROCKETED! Answer: penalize the criminals, not the homeowners.
More laws, what could possibly go wrong? 🤔
When you repeat these slogans without thinking, does it ever occur to you? They don’t actually apply. The problem here is the way rating increases are calculated in California. So yes, the only way to fix it would be to change the law.
@@neilkurzman4907 Yeah, because California has a great track record when it comes to passing laws. Not!
What they need to do is make it easier to open an insurance business in California and cut red tape so it can beopened up to the free market like before they over regulated it.
Can't blame them!
Get rid of the requirement!
Hope state farm pulls all the way out!
That woman from the consumer watchdog had a great idea...if you want zero insurance companies in your state. Prop 103 is the biggest problem and the guy who runs consumer watchdog helped write it. You can't force companies to insure in your state and make them lose billions doing it. We need options and competition. AKA, free market.
Last year my friend crashed my car into another car.. Shortly afterwards, my insurance company asked me if I was willing to allow the insurance company to disclose the limits of my coverages to the lawyer, because the lawyer was asking for it. That in and of itself gives lawyers a free pass to see the maximum they can litigate for, which is non-sense. If this is the case, then I'll just keep my limits at the bare minimum, and not pay the higher premium.
Dont buy a home in risky environments 😅
Bingo
State Farm decided that they didn’t want to write Home Owners Insurance in Florida. Our Insurance Commissioner told them that they couldn’t write car insurance then. State Farm then continued to write Home Insurance, but jacked their rates up to where it was unaffordable for most.
Meanwhile dozens of small Florida companies are now operating where there were none.
What exactly does this commissioner do? Something isn't adding up here....
😂 You live on a fault line what do you expect? 😂
I HAVE LIVED HERE SINCE 1946, 3 HOMES, LIVERMORE, SAN RAMON AND NOW BREA, I HAVEN'T HAD MORE THAN A TOTAL OF AROUND 100 DOLLARS DAMAGE FROM AN EARTHQUAKE, AND NO FIRES IN THIS AREA, SO WE SHOULD PAY MORE?
Home insurance doesn't cover earthquakes genius.
Typical corrupt Democrat, never let a crisis go to waste! "We are the government and we are here to help!"
help liberating $ from your wallet 1 dollar at a time.
Florida is R country, and insurance has bailed on them to. So is it a corrupt D, R, or greedy corporation that could insure everyone if it held long term financing rather than short term profits.
👏thank you for not using accents for hispanic names during an english language broadcast. we're making progress.
That can be annoying. Especially when they do it randomly for only certain names.
I USED to do business in CA. Did you get the tense? Their policies and laws are NOT business friendly. Sorry but the voters are getting EXACTLY what they approved at the ballot box.
Lower the requirements. Banks Banks Banks.
Insurance don’t want to cover million dollar homes that are really worth 250k
make that make sense. a million dollar house worth 250
How can a house be worth 250k but be valued at 1 million?
Figure of speech” Trash for a million how else. Just because the market says it’s worth more.
@@DI2CCO the market reflects what people are willing to pay😂
Jesus dude, are you high
@@DI2CCO I guess you don't know the #1 rule of real estate: LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION. 🤦♂
Why would any business want to be in California?
My home insurance went up 110%.. 😶 in los Angeles
In the 1920s two german immigrant bros moved to Illinois and worked for other ppl. saved 1/2 thier money. bought their own land. before you knew it GJ Mecherle was the go to guy to borrow money from. Being a farmer in Bloomington Illiois he was tired of paying high auto insurance . City ppl had more acciddents yaddy yadda. So he thought, I will start my own insurance company and sell to only safe farmers. The first "agent" was Charles Wonderlin and soon everybody was insured by State Farm Insurance.
So you and I can start our own Insurance company and sell it to ppl in low risk areas. High risk areas will cost more. Unless you think the good guys should pay for the high risk guys.
Add in the crime costing billions and...
... Thats what happened . Too much risk. When I left this big insurance co, for every dollar they collected they paid out $1.20 in claims. Kept afloat by investing the other billion the co brings in. Keep them from making money on auto, fire or health, or a bank, then why should they stay here. They are regulated and pay back policyholders if they make too much, beacause it's mandated.
big middle finger to the bad management of the once great state.
Not sure why state of California is surprised? My car insurance was doable. Have payed year after year and instead of getting a loyalty discount or a safe driver discount, it keeps going up over 75 dollars every 6 months.
The insurance companies are doing what it takes to survive the government over regulation and really bad policies.
They want their cake (and ours) and eat it too. If they leave, leave, but don’t allow them to write any other type of insurance in California.
Watch out what you wish for because they may do that. California has become a war zone.
It makes me respect State Farm even more. Everyone who continues with California has a screw loose.
So, ALL the YEARS Californian's Paid into that system, and Because they are Over exposed and had to pay out some... they just get to cancel? They deserve a refund or something. BS.
State Farm is not cancelling policies, they will not renew at the end of the policy period, there is a difference .
@@dennissimo7546 lol oh really. We are Not renewing your policy, so it's cancelled . 😶🤔 Your an odd one.
Insurance is a fraud. You pay and pay with no claims, but you get an increase to never have to use it. They keep all that money.
Typical uneducated cane Corso owner comment
Insurance companies: "give me your money and byeeeee"
That’s not what happened but ok
CA trying to fix over regulated industry with more regulation!! wow! congratz on brain prize
They know the Big One is super close
That is what my gut is telling me they know something they are not telling us but I know people in USGA at cal state and they have been telling us this for years but maybe the insurance company’s hired a remote viewer to see the near future and they want out but know that they just can’t leave altogether 😮
CA is screwing the insurance market, no wonder they are leaving the state
California isn't the only one. Florida is in an insurance crisis because companies are pulling out. DeSantis told the big companies that if they did not offer home insurance, he would not let them sell car insurance ( you know, The GOP wants less regulation, but that is only something they say). Florida had to create its own socialist company called The Florida Insurance Guaranty Association. The FIGA puts a 1% fee on any home insurance sold anywhere in the state and puts this into a pool. This money would be used in the event of some giant natural disaster bankrupting some insurance companies. The socialist IFGA would use the money it takes from homeowners everywhere in the state to then pay the claims left on the table by the failed insurance company. The Federal government has its own socialist insurance program called the National Flood Insurance Program. A long time ago, insurance companies stopped writing insurance in coastal areas prone to hurricane flooding. The government had do do something or millions of homes would not be insurable. The horrible US socialist government worked out a deal with the insurance companies to disconnect flood insurance from the rest of the insurance, like fire or wind damage so this greatly reduced their risk. Now, the coastal citizens of the great anti-socialist states like Texas, Louisiana, and Florida (where the vast majority of flood insurance is sold can get flood insurance. Because everyone in the US that needs flood insurance pays into the NFIP, if there is a huge flooding event in Florida, the money collected from all of the rest of the country can be used to pay the claims in good old anti-socialist Florida. Socialism is evil... Until you need it... Then, suddenly, it doesn't look all that bad. No profits made by either FIGA or NFIP. All money collected is used to pay claims when needed.
I would imagine the TexOk panhandle is next with it being tornado alley....
Actually a good thing to look at, a tornado destroys a couple dozen houses, a CA statewide fire or flood event destroys or damages tens of thousands. So, tornadoes create a smaller risk.
High crime causes insurance companies to lose money. Thank you Governor Newsom!
You can thank Glendale
Life long Glendalian here..
You’re not lying! A certain demographic who’s notorious for fraud is responsible!!!
It’s illegal to protect your home and business in California. Insurance in California is a guaranteed loss.
Only California people don’t see the issues
It's illegal to protect yourself and family from burglars, rapists, murderers, etc who break in your house.
What’s his qualifications and experience with insurance?
Nothing. Just be a gay Latino or Black.
ABOUT THE SAME AS EVERYONE IN THE BIDEN ADMIN. NOT MUCH.
Great question.
Why cus he’s brown
The only qualification he needs in CA, he's a Democrat!
I don’t see why they just can’t do a state insurance fund. They can only be used to rebuild homes and compensate for car damage and basically make it nonprofit make it affordable so like he said, once you get more people on it becomes cheaper.
my home insurance went up from $2400 a year to $9300. They are a crocked operation
Then start an insurance co. Or even better, self insure your house.
@@bobroberts2371unrealistic idea
Im sure he was hired under DEI. Sounds like he was qualified. This is what happens when your state falls apart..
Insurance is a scam but state farm takes it to another level. Never had a worse experience then working with state farm
Go for competition
No competition left, all the insurance companies leaving. Ask yourself, why are they leaving? Who is causing it?@@janszy9735
Is he at all competent in his job? Either way, the once great state of California is a total mess and it was so preventable.
How are people able to buy a house you need it to secure escrow
Stuck, can't sell, can't buy.
easy, you just get an insurance company that doesn't spend all the monthly money you give them trying to compete with GEICO for how many useless commercials they can make, I found a no name small insurance company thats been around 70 years and ive been very happy……NEWSFLASH if the company airs commercials every 30 minutes YOU are paying for it
@@brunofalcon4645 I see
Can't possibly imagine why a company would want to leave California. I mean crime is up, unemployment is up, minimum wage is up, inflation is up, homelessness is up, property damage is up, cost of living is up, the cost of electricity is up, the cost of gas/fuel is up, etc. etc. etc.
Yes and you have some good points in your comment but you're missing out on bad policy and it's the sole reason why insurance companies are pulling out.
He looks like a food truck worker
He's not qualified for that.
Sounds like insurance fraud on the part of insurance companies, how many years have people paid into them and how many bonuses did they make off with.
It's mandatory to have insurance in CA. But its been a hassle to get a renewal. You have to basically find just anyone at this point that would insure you.
You mean car insurance, yes? Totally different from homeowner insurance.
Good!! Better yet, State Farm should completely leave the state of CA all together.. All insurance companies should that way we go back to the old way of insurance being OPTIONAL and not a requirement anymore.. It’s time we ALL took accountability for our mistakes.. you crash, you pay.. you caused a fire to your house, you pay.. I’m sick and tired of the excuse of my premium increase being because of “increased claims and costs”… I’m not interested in paying for others mistakes/fraud..
Your mortgage co requires the insurance. If you own the house free and clear, then no problem
Hey, Shallow Thinker, the people on Paradise didn't cause the wildfire that burned their town down. If you point out that PG&E was to blame, think about all the homes destroyed by wildfires started by lightning strikes.
@@Stevefor1776 Hey, undeveloped female dog, in those situations you would do what you call “sue” PG&E… If everyone sues that’s called a “class action”… Want me to spell class action for you too?..
Even car insurance companies are moving out of CA.
cant we just make a nationalized insurance company.
Lol commie
No.
No. The more you can keep the Fed out of your business the better.
@@geneheck LOL, You're kidding, right? One of the biggest insurers in the US is good old socialist Uncle Sam. Without Uncle Sam being in the game millions and millions of homes in the US would not be insurable and would become worthless overnight. Here is the deal. A long time ago, insurance companies stopped writhing insurance in flood prone areas. The damage from flooding was often so severe that insurers would go bankrupt when big storms it. The nasty old socialist Uncle Sam stepped in and said "here's the deal. If you will write the insurance for wind damage fire damage, and everything else, we will create a socialist business that will cover the flooding. That socialist business is called the National Flood Insurance Program The way the NFIP works is that no matter where you live in the US, if you need flood insurance, that money goes into a pool. Now, even if a horrible flood strikes the great anti-socialist state of Florida, the NFIP gives the insurance companies the money to pay the flood insurance damage. Without the NFIP, homes along the coasts or near larger rivers prone to flooding would not be able to get insurance. Yeah, socialism is horrible... Until you need it. The great anti-socialist state of Florida has the The Florida Insurance Guaranty Association. This socialist program adds 1% to the cost of any insurance policy written in the state. The money it collects goes into a pool that would be used to pay out claims if an insurance company went bankrupt after a large disaster. How socialist of them! California should do the same for home in wildfire areas. They could create an program that offers insurance from damage caused by wildfires alone and tell the insurance companies they no longer have to insure for it. Because the NFIP, FIGA, and any program that Califonia came up with are socialist programs, the are non-profits so don't pay any taxes because they have no earnings, and they don't have to pay the CEO $20,000,000 a year. But everyone hates socialism, so I guess that is a bad idea.
There is nothing as amazing as a government employee thinking they know more than someone in industry, then making decisions that make it untenable for the business to stay open, and finally blaming the business.
MR insurance commissioner it is YOUR job now to make sure when those 70,000 customers disperse their money to these other insurance companies thats the rates DONT go up being the companies will have enough money made off gaining new customers with State farm leaving
That state should make county’s create its own insurance department and charge based on its demographics in their county
It's called the California FAIR Plan and it's usually 3-4x higher with less coverage.
@@SFPhilo seems like they need to update it to fit each county separately
THEN CA. WOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY FOR THE MANY YEARS OF TORNADO DAMAGE? IN THE BILLIONS
No no no. The state will tax your more to pay for the program.
You clearly don’t understand insurance
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