The proposal would eliminate a 30-year-old practice where unmarried drivers pay up to $100 more for identical coverage ...

The two companies, which pulled back from issuing policies in the state after a series of destructive wildfires, have new ...

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced that he is barring auto insurers from considering marital status in setting premiums.

A test conducted by the Consumer Federation of America, cited in a legal brief in support of the litigation, found that ...

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara proposed a regulation on Wednesday that would prohibit ​insurance companies ...

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is proposing changing regulations to prohibit insurance companies from using a driver's marital status as ...

SB 961 (Sen. Lena Gonzalez, 2020), the Equal Insurance HIV Act, later merged into SB 1255, which prohibits life and disability income insurers from declining an application or enrollment solely on the ...

After scaling back in California, State Farm and Allstate filed plans to begin writing new homeowners insurance policies, ...

Here's a quick digest of The Sacramento Bee's top stories from Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2026.

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has announced a ban on using marital status to set auto insurance premiums, ...

California became the first state to create standards for smoke damage claims, as it continues to craft new laws following ...

In November, California voters will choose who oversees one of the biggest insurance markets in the world. Insurance commissioner may seem like an obscure regulatory position, but it’s a consequential ...