Why California Is Entertaining Disaster Insurance for All

Summary

An ordinarily sleepy California office has become the site of one of the state’s most exciting races. Next week, voters will decide between two Democrats vying to become the Golden State’s next insurance commissioner. In doing so, they’ll be choosing between two competing visions of how to regulate an industry that has surged to the forefront of politics in a part of the country that’s been devastated by a drumbeat of climate-fueled wildfires and floods. Both candidates pitch themselves as reformers, but the nature of the reforms they’re proposing is very different. One wants to make the…

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