The devastating Los Angeles area wildfires are among the most destructive blazes in U.S. history, killing at least 10 people, damaging or destroying some 10,000 structures and causing astronomical damages that threaten to batter the state's already precarious insurance market.
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California issued a series of reforms last year intended to make things easier for wary insurance companies to operate in the state, while also affording consumers some degree of protection against sudden cancellations or non-renewal notices.
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Some companies that had been trying to re-enter the market in California after other recent major wildfires could be given pause by the current devastation, officials warn.
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Ruiz said the recent policy changes in the state, such as allowing insurers to use forward-looking catastrophe modeling, should help. Such modeling uses simulation rather than relying on actual past losses to assess potential risk and set rates.
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