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Authorities count about 12,000 structures destroyed in the Southern California wildfires.

Rehousing and rebuilding involves insurance in most cases, and these disasters came at a time

the insurance market in that state was in flux. This weekend, California officials are launching a

new effort to help people navigate the insurance maze. Ricardo Lara is California's insurance

commissioner. He spoke with my colleague, Nova Saffo. The claims process, that's top of mind right now.

What can people expect? What we are looking at is making sure that the claims are paid fully,

fairly, and as quickly as possible. That is my goal. And we've put insurance companies unnoticed

to do the right thing during this crisis and support their

customers that many of whom have been with them for years, paying their premiums fully and on

time. You're going to see insurance companies either reaching out personally to their consumers

and also setting up disaster vans to be able to access their consumers as well. We are working on these

insurance workshops. And this is really important because these are one-on-one with wildfire

survivors. We do appointments with them and we connect them to their insurance representatives

that are all in one room so that we can get the claims process quickly moving and hopefully get them paid

as quickly as possible.

So we're urging people to call us at 1-800-927-4357 to make an appointment.

We'll take walk-ins.

But we really want to have people call our department so we can assess their policy, make sure

they've got the documents they need.

If now we can get those so that we again get them through the trains process as seamlessly as

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