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2025-01-09 Economy

Incompetence Is Why Fire Insurance Companies Have Fled California

[PJ] When it's all over and Los Angeles residents take stock of their losses, will they be able to build again? Will there be any insurance companies willing to write fire insurance policies in such a badly managed state as California after the Palisades fire?

Gavin Newsom became California's governor the year after a series of devastating wildfires in 2018, including the Camp Fire in Paradise that killed 85 people and destroyed 18,000 homes. Insurance companies say eight of the 10 top wildfire-insured losses have occurred since 2017. As a result, insurance companies have fled the state faster than illegal aliens have jumped over the border on Joe Biden's watch.

"Climate change" is the lazy excuse the Democrats have used to explain why there have been more fires and more damage from them. They claim that fires are more fiery these days. If that's true then why?

California has always suffered from Santa Ana winds, wildfires, and hot weather. Those things haven't changed. What has changed, however, is the state's management of resources and its response to fires. California is a state of 40 million people and the state has roughly the same water capacity as when Willam Mulholland oversaw the construction of the 233-mile-long L.A.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-09 02:23|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Zachary Levi [~actor] blames 'incredibly poor' leadership for LA wildfires, suggests 'criminal negligence' at play

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-09 08:40|| 2025-01-09 08:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Even if it is climate change, which I do not believe, it's the states job to mitigate the impact and in this respect the state has been negligent to say the least. Criminal negligence is more like it. Mandating electric cars and squandering a hundred billion dollars on high speed rail to nowhere ain't getting it. What good is more affordable housing when it's all gonna burn anyway and the owners can't get insurance?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-01-09 12:34|| 2025-01-09 12:34|| Front Page Top

#3 As I understand it, CA tried to tell insurance companies how much they could charge customers and the insurance companies said FU and pulled out.

Posted by mossomo 2025-01-09 12:40|| 2025-01-09 12:40|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ That happened. The water situation also happened. The non forrest management happened. The defending of fire dept happened. That's a lot of bad luck!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2025-01-09 13:26|| 2025-01-09 13:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Epic Adam Carolla rant from a hotel after the LA wildfires forced to evacuate from his home, where he predicts Hollywood leftists will be so frustrated by the rebuild effort that they will not vote Democrat:

"You guys all voted for Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. You all voted for Gavin Newsom, and now you fucking get what you get. now that your house is on fire.

Posted by Beavis 2025-01-09 14:21|| 2025-01-09 14:21|| Front Page Top

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