Rukmini Callimachi

A proposed new law would release homeowners from the onerous process of listing every object lost in a destroyed home.California’s insurance commissioner joined with state legislators on Friday to propose a new law that would force insurers to pay homeowners 100 percent of the coverage for belongings inside destroyed homes, releasing them from the mentally

The state’s regulator wants insurance carriers to pay full policy limits without requiring victims to itemize every object in their destroyed homes.California’s top insurance regulator urged insurance carriers on Thursday to pay policyholders the full amount of the belongings in their coverage without requiring them to itemize every object lost — an undertaking that has

The text notification woke Ashley Bryn Carter at 12:38 a.m., hours after the start of the most destructive wildfires in California history. She packed quickly, imagining she’d be back soon.But earlier that day, something had possessed her to go room by room and film her cottage.This visual log is now among the few pieces of