"The governor can certainly work with the Insurance Commissioner to say there should be no rate increase unless the insurance industry is actually writing policies. They have failed California in our greatest need. They've taken the money for premiums and then when people needed to have support to rebuild their homes, they said, 'whoops, we're not going to help you.'"
"It wasn't global warming, stop believing that. It was a failed environmental policy that doesn't allow fire departments to prevent defensible space around our homes or clear out the brush for 30 years that are building in our mountains and in our hills that took out a city."
California's wildfire insurance crisis is worsening due to climate change, leading insurers to drop policies. The state allows rate increases for more policies, but the FAIR Plan is growing. Tony Thurmond proposed withholding benefits from non-cooperative insurers, while Chad Bianco argued that the issue stems from poor environmental policies rather than climate change. He emphasized the need for better vegetation management to reduce wildfire risks and criticized the state's inaction on these policies.
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