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The Fox News Rundown

Business Rundown: California Wildfires Further Fuel Insurance Crisis

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Radio

Politics, Daily News, News

3.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Set to become one of the most destructive fires in the state’s history, the California wildfires will inflict a serious financial toll on homeowners and their insurance costs. Usually when your house burns down, you look to your home insurance provider for the fix; however, many residents in California who live in high-risk areas have struggled to find affordable coverage, or they may even have been recently dropped by their insurance providers, who argue the wildfires cost damage too hefty to cover. FOX Business correspondent Gerri Willis speaks with CRMBC CEO and insurance industry expert Kaya Stanley about how the wildfires threaten to balloon home insurance issues into a crisis in the Golden State. Photo Credit: AP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Jerry Willis, and this is the Fox Business Rundown.

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Friday, January 10th, 2025. Set to become one of the most destructive fires in the state's history. The California wildfires will inflict a serious financial toll that threatened

0:50.0

to spiral into a home insurance crisis in the Golden State. It doesn't happen overnight, but it's

0:55.9

already happened, right? Most people are going to find that they didn't have the coverage that

1:00.2

they thought they had. The wildfires in California have been devastating, reportedly burning more

1:05.2

than 10,000 homes and structures so far. And with a blazes not yet fully contained, experts are anticipating these fires could soon

1:13.5

be the costliest in the state's history.

1:16.6

Usually, when your house burns down, you look to your home insurance provider.

1:20.6

However, many in California who live in high-risk areas have faced a major problem finding

1:25.9

affordable coverage to ensure their property from

1:28.7

this exact kind of disaster. Residents may have even had wildfire coverage on their homes a few

1:35.0

years ago, but since 2017, big private insurance companies like Allstate and Farmers Insurance

1:41.7

began to stop writing new policies and now reducing their coverage,

1:46.6

citing concerns about how the economic aftermath of wildfires impacted their ability to turn a

1:51.7

profit. Moody's ratings on Thursday estimated than insured losses from these fires could be in the

1:58.1

billions, with J.P. Morgan saying it could be tens of billions.

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