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Rebuilding the First Pillar: Get Government Out of the Way

May 12, 2025 9:00 amMay 12, 2025 9:01 am

This is the second installment in our series on fixing California’s insurance system. The first outlined the five pillars that once supported a thriving market. Today, we focus on the most maligned and misunderstood pillar of all: Insurance Companies. Insurance...

Rebuilding the Pillars of California’s Insurance System

April 2, 2025 2:40 pmApril 2, 2025 2:45 pm

Imagine the Client—the policyholder, the homeowner, the small business owner—as a structure held high upon five great columns. These columns represent the forces that uphold the insurance ecosystem: Insurance Companies, the Department of Insurance, Government at all levels, the Private...

The Standard of Care in Medicine

February 13, 2025 4:09 pmFebruary 13, 2025 4:09 pm

Proverbs 22:16 He who gains by oppressing the poor or by bribing the rich shall end in poverty. Back when I was a surgeon in practice, physicians assessed their own independent performance and compared it to the “standard of care...

Insurance Commissioner Lara Extends Insurance Cancelation Moratorium in Wildfire Areas

November 9, 2020 6:10 pmNovember 9, 2020 3:10 pm

On Thursday, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced that, for the second year in a row, a one-year moratorium would be placed on insurers from canceling or not-renewing homeowners policies in wildfire-affected ZIP codes. Altogether, the announcement will affect 2.1...

Trump Administration Threatens to Stop Some Federal Health Funding Over California’s Abortion Law

January 24, 2020 1:26 pm

On Friday the Trump Administration threatened California that it would halt certain federal health funds because of California’s requirement that abortions need to be covered under insurance. A new federal stance on insured abortion laws The Department of Health and...

Fire Policies Can No Longer Be Dropped By Insurance Companies In California

December 7, 2019 2:16 amDecember 6, 2019 8:00 pm

After years of rising numbers of wildfires and insurance claims against wildfires skyrocketing in California, the California Insurance Commission announced Thursday that homeowner policies will no longer be canceled in wildfire-affected areas. At an Oakland Hills news conference, California Insurance...

Presidential Hopeful Bernie Sanders Holds Large Rally In Downtown Sacramento

August 22, 2019 10:19 pmAugust 24, 2019 7:30 am

“I’m here this evening to ask for your help to win the Democratic primary in California,” said Bernie Sanders, the U.S. Senator from Vermont, to a wildly cheering crowd Thursday evening. “This is about defeating the most dangerous President in...