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State insurance official briefs Eastvale on wildfire reforms, consumer resources
Summary
A California Department of Insurance outreach analyst told the Eastvale council about market pressures from wildfire risk, reforms to allow catastrophe models and insurer commitments to serve high‑fire‑risk areas, and consumer programs including grant assistance for home hardening and smoke‑damage standards.
Eastvale — Judith Pina, an outreach analyst with the California Department of Insurance, updated the City Council on wildfire‑driven insurance market changes, consumer protections and state legislative initiatives aimed at stabilizing availability and speeding disaster recovery.
Pina told the council that rising wildfire risk and higher reinsurance costs have led some insurers to stop writing new policies or to reduce coverage. She said reforms now allow insurers to use forward‑looking catastrophe models provided they commit to writing a specified share of new policies in high‑fire‑risk areas; carriers that have filed and been approved include Mercury, CSAA, USAA,…
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