SF Chronicle Investigates Broken Home Insurance System

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Four of California’s largest home insurers are knowingly using faulty data to set coverage limits, according to a new San Francisco Chronicle investigation. It means that wildfire survivors who thought they’d be made whole after losing their homes are discovering they can’t afford to rebuild. We talk to the reporters behind the investigation and hear how you can find out if your California home is underinsured. And we want to hear from you: Do you have a story about being underinsured? Guests: Megan Fan Munce, reporter covering California’s home insurance crisis, The San Francisco Chronicle Susie Neilson, investigative reporter, The San Francisco Chronicle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.9	Coming up on forum, California's under-insurance crisis. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.
0:57.7	Coming up on forum, California's under-insurance crisis.
1:04.1	Four of the state's largest home insurers are knowingly using faulty data to set coverage limits,
1:06.7	according to a new San Francisco Chronicle investigation. It means that wildfire survivors, who thought they'd be made whole after losing their homes are discovering they cannot afford to rebuild.
1:15.7	We'll talk to the reporters behind the investigation and find out what you can do to help make sure your home is fully covered.
1:22.2	Tell us, do you have a story about being underinsured?
1:26.2	Forum is next.
1:37.1	Music have a story about being underinsured? Forum is next. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. In the aftermath of every recent California wildfire,
1:43.2	families who believed their homes recovered
1:45.2	by insurance learned their policies would not pay out nearly enough to rebuild. And it's not
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