The California Department of Insurance oversees the FAIR Plan to ensure compliance with state law and fair treatment of policyholders. Violations cited in the legal action include misrepresenting ...

The California FAIR Plan now insures a greater percentage of the state than all but a handful of private insurers.

After four years of litigation, key limitations in the California FAIR Plan fire policy were found to be unlawful in Jay ...

The legal fight highlights a growing tension in California’s insurance market, where major carriers have scaled back coverage ...

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara released a statement following a judge's dismissal of Consumer Watchdog's unfounded claims aimed at undermining the California insurance market at a crucial time ...

The California FAIR Plan Assn., the state's property insurer of last resort, was born of smoldering ashes — not of a wildfire, but of one of the worst urban disturbances in U.S. history. The ...

Reps with the state’s home insurer of last resort said an appeal was unlikely in the court ruling, which said it violated state law.

The state's insurer of last resort has taken on more policyholders that private insurers deem too risky. The strain on the ...

The FAIR Plan Association, a pool of insurers required by state statute to provide fire-insurance policies when property owners can’t find them elsewhere, is experiencing major growing pains.

California's Fair Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, may be unable to pay billions in claims arising from the Los Angeles fires and may require a bailout that could ultimately be paid by ...