{"id":208057,"date":"2025-09-07T16:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208057\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:37:15","slug":"newsom-demands-fair-plan-expedite-l-a-wildfire-smoke-damage-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208057\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom demands FAIR Plan expedite L.A. wildfire smoke damage claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gov. Gavin Newsom sent a letter Friday to California\u2019s home insurer of last resort, asking it to process smoke damage claims stemming from the January wildfires \u201cexpeditiously and fairly.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Citing more than 200 complaints the Department of Insurance has received from policyholders over how their claims have been handled, the governor urged the California FAIR Plan Assn. to change its course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI write with an urgent call to action regarding smoke damage claims resulting from the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. I am deeply concerned that the FAIR Plan\u2019s handling of these claims is unscrupulous and unfair, and may ultimately be illegal,\u201d stated the letter sent to the plan\u2019s president and board.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, operated and financially backed by the state\u2019s licensed home insurers, including State Farm General, has been deluged with nearly 5,000 claims after its rolls grew following the withdrawl of insurers from the state\u2019s troubled insurance market. The plan has said it expects to pay some $4 billion in claims. <\/p>\n<p>In making his call to action, Newsom cited a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2025-08-07\/fair-plan-smoke-damage-legal-action-california-department-of-insurance-lara\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cease-and-desist order Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara<\/a> issued to the plan in July that calls on it to stop employing a smoke damage standard that courts have deemed to be illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI continue to hear from survivors of one of the worst disasters in California history who are angry and frustrated by the delay and denial of their claims,\u201d the letter stated.<\/p>\n<p>The FAIR Plan late Friday said it has been working with the insurance department to update and clarify its policy regarding smoke damage and that thousands of policyholders \u201chave already received payments and are on the path to recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Gavin Newsom sent a letter Friday to California\u2019s home insurer of last resort, asking it to process&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":208058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[11030,1582,276,114260,3040,114258,2961,114257,224,2444,5337,3435,18416,5207,77525,290,114261,114259,114262],"class_list":{"0":"post-208057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-action","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-fair-plan-association","12":"tag-department","13":"tag-home-insurer","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-letter-friday","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-times","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-newsom","20":"tag-plan","21":"tag-president","22":"tag-smoke-damage-claim","23":"tag-state","24":"tag-troubled-insurance-market","25":"tag-urgent-call","26":"tag-withdrawl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115163997574234023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208057","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=208057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}