It seems that California’s largest homeowner insurance company is increasing after a loss of billions of dollars from the Los Angeles Wild Fire, and there is a pullback on writing new policies in the state.
Administrative Law Judge Carl Selgman on Monday recommended approval to increase state form interim rate. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara will still have final approval.
In particular, the non-tenant HO-3 line of the State Farm will increase by 17 %, its tenant/conductor line will increase by 15 % and rent housing will increase by 38 %, while the carrier pledges to avoid a new era of non-renewal at the end of 2025. The agreement also determines that the parent’s company will create 400 million capital infusion in the state form.
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The interim rates are temporary, and are subject to the full hearing process.
S&P Global Ratings on Tuesday reduced its financial power and credit rating on the State Farm General Insurance Company to ‘Aa’ from ‘Aa’.
According to the S&P announcement, the rating remains on the credit watch with negative implications.
The announcement states that “the rated action indicates uncertainty related to the support of the state form group, which raises questions about the diagnosis of SFGI’s group status and the impact of its affiliate rating.” “The company has performed poorly in the past five years and weakly in 2025 with potential income and capital pressure. It was largely from the recent California forest fire and caused the regulatory authorized control level (ACL) to collapse.”
At a low performance and falling capital, the State Farm has not provided any money to SFGI, above the insurance insurance contracts. “We also consider confusion around the California Insurance Department’s approval,” the statement said.
Consumer watchdog, which has opposed requests for increasing state farm rates, said the decision would now pay users and allow the state form to wait months before justifying the increase.
The statement continues, “The voter -approved proposal 103 says the rate should not come up before the rate justification, but that’s what happened here.” “We urge the Commissioner to reject the proposed decision, so state form policy holders, many of whom are struggling to pay their claims after the company are fired in Angels, have not been accused of much.”
Lara’s office issued the following statement by a California Department of Insurance Department:
“California deserves a process on the basis of justice, transparency and integrity – not politics or publishing. That is why I requested a free review of the evidence by a administrative law judge, which presented a proposed decision. I am protecting all the facts.
The State form issued a statement in response to a request to comment:
“We thank the Administrative Law Judge for careful consideration of this important issue. We look forward to the Commissioner’s final decision.”
The company’s California emergency rate request in February was temporarily fine in March by Lara, which relied on the increase on the company that justifies the rate with data during public hearing.
After that, after the hearing in early April, the application was 17 %, during which the company’s lawyer, the California department insurance and the consumer’s eyes, argued to determine the fate of the state form request.
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The State Farm has put some of its problems on the LA Wild Fire, which has destroyed more than 11,500 properties. By March, the carrier reported $ 2.5 billion for the LA Wild Fire in January.
As a result of the jungle fire, many large carriers have been touched and the market in California has been tightened, with availability and high rate already growing. According to the California Department of Insurance, 37,749 claims have been filed and $ 12.1 billion has been paid.
The losses have been included in the career of the bottom lines and even the last resort of the state. Lara approved the request for a controversial Fair Plan in California in February, covering a forest fire claim to diagnose 1 billion billion about enrolled market insurance companies.
The State Farm based in Bloomington, Illinois said at its preliminary application that the cost and risk need to be alleviated, and the state form enabled the construction of capital. According to the State Farm, in the last nine years, a lack of alignment means that for every $ 1 collected in the premium, the carrier has spent $ 1.26, resulting in the overall overall loss of $ 5 billion.
Increasing the state -of -the -art worries, the company is also a part of two cases filed in Los Angeles, alleging that domestic insurance companies have been forced to make wildfire and home owners together to limit coverage in California communities.
Insurance companies, including state farms and 24 other companies that hold 75 % of California’s home insurance market, were part of an “illegal scheme” in violation of California’s distrust and unfair competitive laws.
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