A firefighting plane makes a drop on a burning home in Pacific Palisades on Jan 7. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) The California FAIR Plan Assn., the state's property insurer of last resort, ...

Since the LA fires on January 7, much more attention has been put on the California FAIR Plan, the state's fire insurer of last resort. Once thought of as a small, rarely-used backstop, the plan is ...

Insurance companies run California’s FAIR Plan in secrecy and have stinted on claims and violated state laws, insurance regulators and customers allege. When a massive wildfire tore through Sarah ...

The FAIR Plan, California’s last-resort insurance program for homeowners needing fire coverage, is seeking approval for steep rate hikes averaging 35.8%, though some policyholders could actually see ...

A Los Angeles consumer group has sued Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to block potential surcharges on home insurance policies statewide as a result of the heavy losses suffered by the California ...

In a decision with broad implications for victims of January’s wildfires, the state’s home insurer of last resort is on the hook to pay for smoke damage claims, according to a court ruling issued this ...

The California FAIR Plan Assn., the state's property insurer of last resort, was born of smoldering ashes — not of a wildfire, but of one of the worst urban disturbances in U.S. history. The Watts ...