The regulation proposed by the state's Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara in February would mandate that all insurance companies have to give California consumers discounts for reducing their wildfire risk - also known as 'hardening your home.'
And Bay Area families appear to be stuck in it.
"So we were left to scramble. We've been trying to find alternate insurance," Mark O'Brien said. "I've went to three or four different carriers and got turned down."FAIR Plan insurance criticized for expense, lack of coverage in insurance commissioner hearing"All of them denied us," he said. "They go, 'What's your address?' And you hear this dead pause. And they go, 'Oh, well, we're not insuring in that area.
"My husband was cutting down trees for about six weeks straight," she said. "We spent another $4,500 to do the trees we couldn't do and cleared all around our home. Plus had CALFIRE come out and do an inspection." "If insurance companies take into account the home hardening, then it will truly reflect the actual risk, which currently they're not doing," Lara said. "So we're saying with this new regulation, insurance companies have to take that into account."RELATED:
Even the state's former Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner wasn't renewed by his carrier, despite spending tens of thousands of dollars on mitigation, according to his op-ed published in the LA Times.North Bay environmental tech firm helps communities reduce fire risk with computer blueprint"I don't know anybody who's been able to get insurance," Buckwalter said, referring to her network in Santa Rosa.
Consumer Watchdog, along with several other consumer organizations, sent several letters calling on the Commissioner to use his authority to close what they consider the 'non-renewal loophole.'
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