California Insurance Commissioner Announces Game-Changing FAIR Plan Reform

California insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara- State Farm rate increase hearing

LOS ANGELES — In a significant move to address California’s ongoing insurance crisis,unveiled a breakthrough agreement to modernize the California FAIR Plan Association (FAIR Plan), the state’s “insurer of last resort.” This initiative is a key component of Lara’s Sustainable Insurance Strategy, marking the largest insurance reform since Proposition 103 was passed in 1988. Modernizing the FAIR Plan “Modernizing the FAIR Plan is a crucial step in our strategy to stabilize California’s insurance market,” said Commissioner Lara. “It’s critical for Californians to understand that a growing FAIR Plan contributes to…

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A look at China from an insurance point of view

Largest insurers in China have legal problems

China is a huge country and there are different areas that people live in.  Elite China is a modern fast pace area with high speed trains, high rise buildings, luxury cars, gated housing developments and stores.  The rising class of China doesn’t have all the luxury like the elite, but their standards of living over the past 10 years have greatly improved.  There is an area of China where their lifestyle and poverty level is similar to when Mao ruled China and they face many difficult times. In December 2001, China was…

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