The Office of Insurance Regulation and three advocacy groups paint conflicting pictures of insurance affordability, coverage availability and claims handling.

Representatives of the insurance industry called the proposal too speculative and prescriptive, while consumer and environmental advocates say it doesn't go far enough.

The insurer's 32-page regulatory filing for the increase, implemented in July, claims a 19 cent loss for every dollar in home insurance premiums collected – based on a catastrophe loss estimate given without further details or documentation.

Congressmen introduced the Retroactive Renewal and Reauthorization Act to the House Monday, with hopes to backdate the reauthorization of the insurance program.

Hampered by a lack of institutional authority, the Illinois Department of Insurance goes to court to compel State Farm to provide property insurance market data. The insurer says it has already given the regulator data to justify its recent rate increase.

Several insurance and wildfire-related bills were signed into law October 10, including authorization for bonds to finance California's insurer of last resort.

Reed Smith insurance plaintiff attorney Hugh Lumpkin points to 90% of Citizens Property Insurance arbitrations denying claims, with insurer funding judges' salaries.

The federal flood insurance program, which lapsed just before the government shutdown, mostly covered severe repetitive flood risk that the industry cannot cover.

California governor's executive order tasks insurance regulator and other state agencies to make recommendations on mitigating wildfires, insurance affordability and availability, expediting insurance claims and more.

California insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara proposes stricter standards for Consumer Watchdog's compensation in representing home insurance policyholders against insurers' rate increase proposals.

AB 226, still subject to governor's approval, allows likely $1 billion of borrowing to cope with strains on the state's insurer of last resort.

New law, SB 429, California Wildfire Public Catastrophe Model Act, depends on the state's university system and its resources to check insurers' and regulators' risk modeling.

A report by Weiss Ratings, based on state regulators' data, finds insurers more aggressively denied claims under the law, and claimants responded with more lawsuits.

Insurers need to adopt robust digital risk infrastructure capable of real-time analytics and integrated stress testing.

The home insurer's objections to an in-person public hearing with regulators are dismissed by a California administrative judge, along with efforts to separate and postpone wildfire claim handling complaints from the rate hearings.

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Trinidad Navarro, insurance commissioner of Delaware, urged the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to continue developing a nationwide platform where insurance consumers can look up disciplinary and regulatory actions against agents.

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