California is investigating the State Farm for Fire Claims in La

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The California Insurance Department has launched an official state farm investigation over the processing of fires in Los Angeles County.

The investigation, which is expected to take months, will allow a more comprehensive regulatory examination, the press release said today. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said in a statement that the review would help determine whether the state farm had complied with the laws of consumer protection and state claims.

“No one should be left insecure, forced to fight for their due, or to face endless delays that often lead consumers to give up,” Lara said.

The survivors of the January fires and the legislators who represent them have called on the Commissioner to open the investigation of the largest property supplier in the state.

The residents of Pasadena and Altadena complain of delaying payments; obtaining multiple claims regulators; must fight in order to be restored for smoke damage; And more. His staff will also investigate inconsistent management of such allegations and poor records, Lara said.

“I am happy to hear that the commissioner has chosen to look deeper,” said Andrew Wessels, whose home in Altadada has damage to smoke, high lead levels and others. “But I will believe things when I see him on one of these things.”

Wessels, his wife and two children lived in seven different places after Ethan’s fire. Today, he told CalMatters that he was waiting for at least $ 25,000 to recover from the state farm and had not yet bothered to file a bunch of more demands because it seems useless at that moment. Last week, his insurer appointed a new concealer – the fourth so far.

The state farm said it was cooperating with the investigation.

“A fair review will establish that thousands of state farms are assisted by our teams on the spot in Los Angeles County and are very pleased,” says Sevag Sarkisian, a spokesman for the state farm. He said the company paid more than $ 3.96 billion with more than $ 12,000 claims from its customers in California this week.

As part of the investigation, the insurance department asks the clients of the State Farm to continue to file complaints. So far, the department has received hundreds of claims related to fires in the LA region, a significant number of which are for the state farm, said the spokesman of the Gabriel Sanchez Department today.

Official investigations from the insurance department are known as market exams. They have led to the correction of the practices of insurance companies, said the spokesman for the department Michael Soller. Following the wild fires in 2015 and 2017, investigations from the He handnder insurer department, including the state farm, led to about $ 158 million more claims, flavored, Soller said.
State farm obtained approval to increase premiums to its customers in California last month and is Search for additional increases in the rateS

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