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2025-01-09 Economy

Incompetence Is Why Fire Insurance Companies Have Fled California

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-09 02:23|| || Front Page|| [11135 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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