{"id":1010852,"date":"2026-08-19T13:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1010852\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:39:11","slug":"mortgage-lenders-withholding-insurance-fire-survivors-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1010852\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Lenders Withholding Insurance: Fire Survivors Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Aug. 19, 2026 6:27 AM PT   <\/p>\n<p>The insurance crisis has been well documented after these disasters &#8211; people who didn\u2019t have insurance, or not enough insurance, or just can\u2019t get their claims covered. But some folks have made it through that whole process, only to hit another roadblock: their mortgage lenders are holding onto the money.<\/p>\n<p>Grace Toohey, a breaking news reporter for the Los Angeles Times, has been in touch with homeowners who say this is a growing issue \u2013 and one that has forced them to delay or halt construction on their new homes.<\/p>\n<p>GUEST: Los Angeles Times Fast Break Reporter Grace Toohey<\/p>\n<p>Read Grace\u2019s article: Fire survivors were finally ready to rebuild homes. A new barrier is leaving them \u2018demoralized: <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-07-17\/fire-survivors-were-finally-ready-to-rebuild-new-barrier-is-leaving-them-demoralized\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-07-17\/fire-survivors-were-finally-ready-to-rebuild-new-barrier-is-leaving-them-demoralized<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 19, 2026 6:27 AM PT The insurance crisis has been well documented after these disasters &#8211; people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1010853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[347,1582,276,2693,404644,10758,33140,404645,2961,224,2444,5337,6459,404643,41803,246324,3546,4478,17871,404646],"class_list":["post-1010852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-article","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-disaster","tag-grace-toohey","tag-guest","tag-homeowner","tag-insurance-fund","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-money","tag-mortgage-lender-withholding-insurance","tag-new-home","tag-news-reporter","tag-people","tag-survivor","tag-touch","tag-whole-process"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117122457167686215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}