California's Home Insurance Crisis

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@LucasBenjamin-hv7sk 2 ай бұрын

The issue is that either the renter or the owner must in some way pay insurance and property taxes if they want a "permanent roof" with utilities like electricity, gas and water. Because of this, many people-at least in California, where I currently reside-are living in tents. No taxes, rent, mortgages, or insurance. The number of people who tell me they live in their car that I meet amazes me. Its crazy out here!

@CharlesArthur-fq5sx 2 ай бұрын

It’s getting wild by the day. The prices of homes are quite ridiculous and Mortgage prices has been skyrocketing on a roll(currently over 7%). Sometimes i wonder if to just invest my spare cash into the stock market and wait for a housing crash or just go ahead to buy a home anyways.

@Franklin-gq4si 2 ай бұрын

I get such worries too. I'm 50 and retiring early. Already worried of the future and where its headed, especially in terms of financies and how to get by. I'm also considering making my first investment in the stock market, but how can I do so given that the market has been in a mess for the majority of the year?

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@hppavilionf50 2 ай бұрын

I understand why they're struggling, but why should other taxpayers be subsidizing their homeowners insurance? It's their choice to live in the middle of nowhere or right next to a forest with overhead power lines.

@jiainsf 22 күн бұрын

and now loss of insurance is affecting home owners who do not even live close to the wildfire-prone areas...

@nchevrea 2 ай бұрын

If people are not able to get home owners insurance, then they can’t even buy a house because most people need a mortgage.

@georgekim933 2 ай бұрын

So true. If you own outright. Don’t buy a home near wildfire hazards, take your chances on earthquakes and live your life! Our home was built in 1945 and is standing fine.

@shaverlocal Ай бұрын

I was a logging contractor for well over 20 years. When they destroyed the timber industry, forests went unmanaged. Thus you get these fires as a result of forest service negligence...

@robertus911 2 ай бұрын

You can't make laws to force people to get insurance. Then you can't find insurance.

@susanrosegale6646 2 ай бұрын

Great reporting ABC10, I love to see a new agency get real news out there. Thank you - vey helpful!!!

@karenlim1634 2 ай бұрын

Our home insurance has doubled and we had to buy the California Fair Plan. This has been very challenging and has impacted our way of life. We can’t send our kids to a 4 year college, we rarely go out to eat, and we have not been able to go on a family vacation. We need change NOW!!

@Erik-rp1hi 2 ай бұрын

I'm build my home in the forest of Concrete and rebar. Tempered windows and outside fire sprinklers on the roof and not have insurance.

@georgekim933 2 ай бұрын

Sounds pretty robust! Ironically that our ancestors lived they way did in housing that was temporary at best.

@caissa6187 18 күн бұрын

That's how we're going to build as well.

@tobiaskozlov5151 2 ай бұрын

Insurance is not designed to help you, its designed to make money for the insurance companies.

@thedude5040 2 ай бұрын

It's called risk management.

@tobiaskozlov5151 2 ай бұрын

found the scumbag insurance agent

@bsgvlog5640 Ай бұрын

So how much should insurance cost then ? Heck the STATE insurance company in Florida wanted to raise rates by 14 percent last year. Homes cost more to rebuild cause people don't work for free.

@thedude5040 Ай бұрын

@bsgvlog5640 I spend $1800/yr in Kansas on my brandnew 2800sq ft house with massive 3 car garage.

@eile4219 Ай бұрын

Well, unless it's non-profit company, they need to make money or they won't exist. The problem with the issue is that California makes it very hard for insurance companies to make money. In fact, they are losing money. That why they left and are not renewing existing policy, so they can get out. Yeah, we should not use tax players money to.protect those people who are living in risky area. They should go without insurance or buy the expensive insurance. Just get the CA Fair plan.

@user-kn9tt6ny3v 29 күн бұрын

This is all Gavin Newsom. We need to sue him.

@casey896 2 ай бұрын

Just drop the requirement from lenders to have insurance to have a mortgage. Just cut them out completely from the picture. If you already pay private mortgage insurance (to make the lender whole in the event of non payment or loss) what’s the point of having homeowners insurance ? If you’re wealthy enough to afford insurance, then it should be optional. Problem solved

@gregfawcett5152 Ай бұрын

The problem with that is that if you are the mortgage company you don't want to take that risk. You see the mortgage company owns your home until you completely pay off the mortgage. If the mortgage company did not require insurance, then they would pass that risk back onto the buyer/owner with exorbitant increase in rates to issue the mortgage.

@TURTLES_FOR_LIFEEE Ай бұрын

Maybe if California did good forestry management. They would not have a boat load of Fires.

@i-likemy-space7729 2 ай бұрын

I JUST GOTTA WONDER how our ancestors lived for centuries without insurance companies. With all those open flames for cooking and heating.

@donaldmaxie5264 Ай бұрын

A lot of noncombustible materials used in construction. Sometimes things burned.

@i-likemy-space7729 Ай бұрын

@@donaldmaxie5264 Corporations win the gamble or they drop you. In a catastrophic event, they win again through bankruptcy.

@donaldmaxie5264 Ай бұрын

@i-likemy-space7729 Exactly. The insurance companies can not survive if money coming in (premiums) is less than money going out (claims). They have a couple options, raise rates and/or drop high risk customers, Do neither and be forced into bankruptcy.

@i-likemy-space7729 Ай бұрын

@@donaldmaxie5264 So the average consumer is guaranteed to lose. Insurance is the cancer, not the cure.

@donaldmaxie5264 Ай бұрын

@@i-likemy-space7729Basically, that's true. Insurance is protection against loss. As long as there are losses, property owners, as a group, will experience losses. Insurance is the way we spread that cost out so no individual policy holder takes a major hit.

@7phyton 2 ай бұрын

In 39 previous comments, not one said a word about reducing the risk of the huge incident losses by making homes less likely to burn when a fire does happen. This is achievable by reducing nearby fuels strategically and by improving ember resistance of the home itself and the few feet adjacent. The issue isn't the problems in remote forests (initiated by clear-cutting converting fire resistant old growth into dog-fir secondary forest). That's BS for the logging industry. The issue is close to densely developed areas. Take the Caldor Fire, which burned a huge area of forest and a lot of structures scattered within it. But then it burned right down to, and jumped clear OVER, South Lake Tahoe without burning any houses. So reducing loss of homes in these modern fires is proven to be feasible.

@Rayjack-m9o 2 ай бұрын

This is not a State problem, It is a individual homeowners problem People who cannot afford their homes, Must make difficult choices But neither the Tax Payer or low risk homeowners should be forced to subsidize high risk homeowners.

@gregfawcett5152 Ай бұрын

Yes, by dropping insurance on high-risk properties the insurance rates may remain affordable to the average person.

@rogerbec5766 Ай бұрын

When insurance companies opt to leave the state it's because they are not making a profit. And when they leave, it's a sad day for attorneys and contractors.

@ronswansonsdog2833 2 ай бұрын

18:29 Anyone who lobbies for the insurance companies is in league with the devil.

@hyrenaj2888 2 ай бұрын

Insurance is just socialization of risk. If everyone is subject to significant risk, then costs will be higher for everyone. The first woman had a $33k quote for a $1.5 million limit, so that's about 2%, meaning that there's an expectation of the hotel burning down once in 50 years. I'm no fan of the insurance industry, but it doesn't seem that farfetched given the crazy fires we've had in the past 10 years or so. edit: I kept watching, and I feel for the lady, it's a crazy amount.

@eddiel5671 2 ай бұрын

INSURANCE POOR, THAT IS WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS. Welcome to the Hunger Games, May the Odds be NEVER, EVER in your Favor !!!!!!!

@douglasgunn8443 2 ай бұрын

Most insurance companies are publicly traded corporations. As such, the board of directors has a fiduciary duty to maximize profits for the shareholders, and can be sued if they don't. As a result, if the corporation can't make money, it goes out of business. It may be time to nationalize the insurance industry, the way Iran nationalized Aramco during the 1950s. It worked!.

@chwondearth4531 2 ай бұрын

People need to end building homes in the fire zones and go back to cabins if it burns the loss is 100k vs 6,7 or 800k homes and pools and have the state insure homes like this

@georgekim933 2 ай бұрын

California depending on statistics have a home ownership from 17-21%. Renters have to pay a pass along on insurance from landlords. You’re telling me that insurance companies aren’t making money?

@thehpw 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the excellent journalism and coverage of this topic

@mike9132 Ай бұрын

You can't overregulate and get prices down. Insurance companies just leave. Drives prices up. Same thing happened to health insurance.

@stocktontile-jr4od 2 ай бұрын

Feel bad for her..that’s unsustainable

@eharminc 2 ай бұрын

In Florida I pay $9800 for insurance 1200sqf house! After Milton probably I can insure my house…

@Independent_Voices Ай бұрын

That's insane. California should implement a citizens insurance program similar to Florida.

@Slide61 2 ай бұрын

How about a story about California self insuring? A quick check on the web revealed some interesting facts. Total value of property loses over 2018 to 2022 was $18.7 billion. That is less than $5 billion per year. 2020 was the worst fire season on record which resulted in $10 billion in property loses. Establishing a $10 billion self insurance pot would cost $714 per home annually in California. It would be a mandatory tax. No one gets out of it. In addition, human caused loses are 10 times higher than lighting caused loses - accidental and arson. Significant prison time along with increased surveillance (drone, satellite) during the fire season might change that lopsided statistic. Consider digging a little deeper to find potential solutions that get the insurance noose off our necks.

@suzannespanier4492 Ай бұрын

All the people that never make a claim, should at least get a thank you card from these people.

@smsfelipe 2 ай бұрын

Home ownership is a scam

@jaimel8219 2 ай бұрын

@georgekim933 2 ай бұрын

True if you can’t buy outright. Otherwise you’re the serf to the lord or banks.

@rojasjubenal 2 ай бұрын

Find I hard to believe that the majority never file a claim but a handful that do the insurance companies say it’s hard to do business as if they pay 100%

@eile4219 Ай бұрын

Insurance companies are leaving because they are losing money in California. This is a fact. Otherwise CA Fair plan should work right? Why do they not lower the price there, cover more and make moeny?

@claudetteweismantel3516 2 ай бұрын

Very frustrating … costs are soaring… home & auto bundling are being dropped .. now we have hazard Ins only yet have not been able to receive documents stating who or what is being covered… yet has tripled in costs…(separate auto at double the price)

@mr.d7237 2 ай бұрын

“We’re suffering out here.” LEAVE. Your problem is your problem. Don’t make it everyone else’s problem.

@donaldmaxie5264 Ай бұрын

Insurance companies are not going to stay in business if the amount they pay in claims exceeds what they bring in in revenue, consistently. Just reality.

@eile4219 Ай бұрын

Stop force people to buy insurance. Allow people to get a mortgage to buy a house with a insurance. Remember a house is investment, it's there risk to not buy insurance. Sometimes, you lose money on your investment.

@ericp1139 2 ай бұрын

So the only options are caving to insurance cartel price gouging, or no insurance at all. Yay capitalism…

@tomh5529 2 ай бұрын

You buy a house in the middle of the forest, in the midst of a drought and rising fire risk. Just what do you think will happen?

@jasonborne5724 2 ай бұрын

I’m nowhere near a forest, I live in a subdivision and all utilities are underground. We are designated a fire safe community, yet me and all of my neighbors are canceled. We have cut down a significant number of trees. The insurance companies say they all have to come down and those in our parks. Talk about deforestation…..

@tomh5529 2 ай бұрын

@@jasonborne5724 wasn't talking about you specifically. But I've heard that these insurance companies hire third-party assessors who'd fly drones over the area to look for issues with roofs or debris in the yard.

@jasonborne5724 2 ай бұрын

@@tomh5529 I have no problem with insurance companies doing that and dropping people that have hazardous junk on their property/ roof. Your original comment would also apply to tens of millions of people who live in an area that has other natural disasters. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, etc. we all can’t live in a “safe space “. I could also apply that logic to anyone living in a city that has riots and has their business, or home vandalized, or burned. “You just shouldn’t live there, what do you think will happen?”

@tomh5529 2 ай бұрын

@@jasonborne5724 Natural disasters that could have significant losses for the insurance companies.

@AKAAAK 2 ай бұрын

At least CA is doing its part by providing outrageously prices last resort home insurance

@johnalver Ай бұрын

35,000 a year is not a lot to insure a business!!!

@Proj_Doomsday Ай бұрын

IF you live in a fire danger zone. You need to build fire resistant homes. Its the ONLY way.

@mr.d7237 2 ай бұрын

If I was an insurance company, I wouldn’t insure any house outside of an urban area. Too risky. Too much brush and trees. Too dry. If you choose to live in the middle of a tinder box, that’s your own problem. The rest of us live in normal areas.

@kvl505 2 ай бұрын

That is a very limited viewpoint. It affects everyone. If you actually paid attention to the story, thousands living in suburban areas are getting cancellation notices. Also, do you think your water comes from? And who maintains it along with other natural resources. Where should those people live? In your cushy suburban, cookie cutter, neighborhood?

@mr.d7237 2 ай бұрын

@@kvl505 stop whining

@jasonborne5724 2 ай бұрын

@@mr.d7237 I agree with you. Hospitals should refuse to treat people who get shot and stabbed in urban areas. It’s an expected consequence of living there. Medical insurance is too high…..

@bookbeing 2 ай бұрын

We need to use the caltrans approach for homes in natural disaster areas and health care. Profits need to be removed from the equasion. Good riddence to these vultures hoping to feed and profit on people's fears pain and misfortune!

@garynewman6281 Ай бұрын

Complete corruption in the Insurance industry

@gregfawcett5152 Ай бұрын

Used to be called "the protection racket"

@jsd354 Ай бұрын

Solution: Call Gov DeSantos in Florida, he can tell you how to answer your fire problems. Now if Florida can just solve the hurricane problem.

@iamjungle3558 2 ай бұрын

Can we now impeach Newson? He's making everything worse

@donparsons1237 Ай бұрын

Fire amd flood proof your investment,,, life is simple that way !

@KarenNakamura1 2 ай бұрын

There’s no affordable insurance for people in wildfire zones unless other people (ie other taxpayers) subsidize the risk. I’d let people in these zones self-insure if their mortgage companies let them.

@alfonsoalfonso5254 Ай бұрын

Some of the top executives in insurance companies are the richest people in America. Do. Not forget that the majority of profits to to the 1% of population .