In California, 2 new ratings affirm that no health plan tops Kaiser Permanente when it comes to providing high-quality care and personalized service. California’s Office of the Patient Advocate and Covered California gave us their highest possible ratings for overall quality of care in their latest reports. Office of the Patient Advocate: 5 out of … Read more
California’s Department of Insurance last week posted long-awaited rules that remove obstacles to profitably underwriting coverage in the wildfire-prone state. Among other things, the new rules eliminate outdated restrictions on use of catastrophe models in setting premium rates. The measure also extends language related to catastrophe modeling to “nature-based flood risk reduction.” In the original … Read more
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Friday announced what he’s calling “first of its kind” catastrophe modeling and ratemaking regulation that will allow carriers to use the models as a factor in setting and getting rates. The regulation is a part of his so-called Sustainable Insurance Strategy to increase coverage in wildfire-distressed areas of the … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by fuel producers to challenge California’s standards for vehicle emissions and electric cars under a federal air pollution law in a major case testing the Democratic-governed state’s power to fight greenhouse gases. The justices took up an appeal by a Valero Energy subsidiary and … Read more
A California man has been charged with shipping weapons and ammunition to North Korea and told investigators they were to be used for a surprise attack on South Korea, authorities said Tuesday, December 3. Shenghua Wen came to the US from China on a student visa more than a decade ago after meeting with North … Read more