Big changes are coming to California’s insurance world. A judge just ruled against the FAIR Plan, the state’s fallback home insurance option for high-risk properties. What’s it all about? Smoke damage. And this decision could shake things up—for both homeowners and insurance companies. The Ruling That Changes Everything The issue? How the California FAIR Plan handles smoke damage claims. The judge ruled their approach was illegal. Why? Their policy limited smoke damage claims to only what they called “direct physical loss.” Basically, if the damage wasn’t visible to the naked…
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Web Trackers Are Sniffing Around Insurance Data—and That’s a Problem
Sensitive health data on public platforms. Shared with LinkedIn, Google, and Snapchat. Sound alarming? It is. And it’s raising serious questions about privacy, compliance, and trust in state health exchanges—especially for insurance professionals. Here’s what happened. Five states—California, Nevada, Maine, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts—were caught using web trackers on their state-run health exchange platforms. These trackers, invisible snippets of code embedded in websites, are often used to gather data. Analytics, marketing, ad targeting. All the usual reasons. But here’s the problem. This time, they accidentally went too far. How Web…
Read MoreState Farm’s Next Move: A Comeback in the Making?
Can State Farm Reclaim the Throne? Progressive has done it. They’ve knocked State Farm off the top spot as the biggest U.S. auto insurer. But what’s next? State Farm isn’t taking this sitting down. With a market share of 16.2%—just a hair behind Progressive’s 16.4%—you can bet they’re plotting a comeback. What’s State Farm’s Next Move? State Farm isn’t exactly new to dominating the auto insurance scene. They’ve been the leader for decades. But losing the top spot stings. How will they claw their way back? Experts say State Farm…
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