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Businesses and Residents Hope for Post-Storm Relief
January 24, 2023
Businesses and Residents Hope for Post-Storm Relief

Costs continue to add up even with assistance from FEMA and flood insurance When Watsonville resident Amy Thomas reached out to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for help, she had already paid thousands of dollars to repair damages caused by a spate of recent…

Devastated by storms and denied by insurance, Lompico residents navigate uncertain recovery
January 23, 2023
Devastated by storms and denied by insurance, Lompico residents navigate uncertain recovery

Since a colossal New Year’s Eve storm caused part of the hillside that his house sits on to collapse, Benjamin Short has been in a constant daily battle to save his home. The Dec. 31 storm and waves of atmospheric rivers that hit Santa Cruz…

Video: Why few California homeowners have flood insurance
January 20, 2023
Video: Why few California homeowners have flood insurance

Something doesn’t compute. Some 32 trillion gallons of rain and snow has fallen in California since Christmas. Yet, only about 2% of properties are covered against flooding, according to the Associated Press. Thats means only 230,000 homes and other buildings have flood insurance policies, which…

Damaged by the Santa Cruz storms? Tips from the pros on how to deal with insurance
January 20, 2023
Damaged by the Santa Cruz storms? Tips from the pros on how to deal with insurance

Just days after the end of a historic series of damaging storms, Santa Cruz County residents are trying to pick up the pieces. One of those pieces is navigating the world of insurance. To help residents get started, several local organizations have hosted information sessions…

California just got slammed with a series of severe storms but only about 2% of properties are covered by flood insurance
January 20, 2023
California just got slammed with a series of severe storms but only about 2% of properties are covered by flood insurance

On Sunday morning, Kyle Starks woke up to floodwaters that reached the door of his Jeep after yet another heavy rain storm drenched California. Emergency crews showed up with boats to float Starks and other residents of his rural mobile home park in Acampo to…

Financial help available for California storm victims, but it can be difficult to get
January 19, 2023
Financial help available for California storm victims, but it can be difficult to get

Soon after President Joe Biden declared a major disaster for the areas of California besieged by a series of atmospheric river storms on Jan. 9—a move that allowed victims to request financial help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency—Watsonville resident Amy Thomas reached out to…

Deciding to Rebuild After a Fire Is Just the First Step
January 17, 2023
Deciding to Rebuild After a Fire Is Just the First Step

Four years after the devastating Woolsey fire, Malibu residents who lost everything are still waiting for approvals, and contending with complicated mortgage and insurance processes, underlining what starting over really costs. To step into Barbara Ferris’s new house, you have to first grapple with what…

California Court Gives Policyholders a Boost: Appellate Panel Publishes Pro-Policyholder COVID-19 Decision
January 16, 2023
California Court Gives Policyholders a Boost: Appellate Panel Publishes Pro-Policyholder COVID-19 Decision

This is the case of Shusha Inc. v. Century-National Insurance Co., in the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Second Appellate District. A recent decision by a California state appellate panel has given hope to policyholders seeking insurance coverage for their COVID-19-related losses.…

Storm recovery: Find resources here as Santa Cruz County agencies, community groups scramble to coordinate
January 13, 2023
Storm recovery: Find resources here as Santa Cruz County agencies, community groups scramble to coordinate

Santa Cruz County community organizations and government agencies are scrambling to both respond to current urgent storm-related conditions as well as provide recovery resources. Several organizations and officials are providing info sessions on filing claims Thursday and Friday, starting at 4 p.m. each day, while…

Meetings educate public on insurance, resources after floods
January 13, 2023
Meetings educate public on insurance, resources after floods

When filing an insurance claim for damage incurred during the recent storms, property owners are advised never to use the word “flood.” Insurance companies—driven by profit and therefore disinclined to part with their money—typically categorically deny claims for flood damage. That was among the advice…

Preschool and neighbors in San Francisco’s Mission facing major storm damage repairs
January 11, 2023
Preschool and neighbors in San Francisco’s Mission facing major storm damage repairs

One of the biggest impacts from the pouring rain is now showing up as damage to private property. For a preschool in a residential neighborhood in San Francisco’s Mission District, damage to a retaining wall has left young students without a playground and neighbors without…

Sneaky ways inflation affects your money in 2023
January 9, 2023
Sneaky ways inflation affects your money in 2023

Here are a few of the less well-known changes this year — some that could hurt your wallet, and others that could help. By now, you’re probably familiar with the more obvious ways inflation affects your finances. Your money doesn’t go as far at the…

Are Home Insurers Abandoning Communities Vulnerable to Climate Change?
January 5, 2023
Are Home Insurers Abandoning Communities Vulnerable to Climate Change?

The U.S. Department of the Treasury makes an unprecedented move to find out if home insurers are abandoning communities vulnerable to climate change Dozens of environmental and consumer groups are rallying behind the Biden administration’s plan to collect information from property insurance companies to determine…

Bay Area residents dealing with insurance coverage, flooding damages
January 5, 2023
Bay Area residents dealing with insurance coverage, flooding damages

Ben Marcus is a landlord dealing with storm-related repairs in Oakland who has run into issues finding crews available to clean up damage following the Bay Area’s recent storms. One of Marcus’s apartment units is temporarily unlivable for his tenants. He said the carpets had…

10th Circuit says COVID-19 not a basis for Aspen restaurant’s insurance claim
January 3, 2023
10th Circuit says COVID-19 not a basis for Aspen restaurant’s insurance claim

COVID-19 did not cause an Aspen restaurant to suffer income losses that entitled it to compensation from its property insurer, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Tuesday. L’Hostaria, a since-closed restaurant, filed suit against The Cincinnati Insurance Company in December 2020, alleging…

Business insurance battle for Covid losses shifts to state high courts
January 3, 2023
Business insurance battle for Covid losses shifts to state high courts

Every federal appellate court to consider the question so far has ruled that commercial all-risk property insurance policies do not cover income lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but policyholders’ lawyers say the fight is just getting started on the battlegrounds that matter the most:…

Louisiana regulators continue allowing weak insurers to take on risky policies
December 31, 2022
Louisiana regulators continue allowing weak insurers to take on risky policies

Shaky companies welcomed in the state’s distressed market After four insurers failed in late 2021, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon put the fate of thousands of Louisiana homeowners in the hands of little-known Safepoint Insurance Co. The Florida-based firm took on 30,000 risky policies after three…

A year after the Marshall Fire, homeowners are still slowly piecing together money to rebuild
December 30, 2022
A year after the Marshall Fire, homeowners are still slowly piecing together money to rebuild

Colleen and Greg Ehrnstrom finally broke ground on the plot where their five-bedroom home once stood in Louisville earlier this month. After a year of dealing with their mortgage company, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, builders, architects, the Colorado Division of Insurance, and, of course,…

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