Kristine Lazar
Reporter at KCBS-TV (Los Angeles, CA)
Emmy award winning @CBSLA consumer investigative reporter, Cal grad, mom to twin girls+boy, #2onyourside she/her/hers
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
cbsnews.com | Kristine Lazar
Their homes survived the recent wildfires, but some homeowners said dealing with their FAIR Plan insurance is keeping them from moving back in. According to the Department of Insurance, the California FAIR Plan must cover smoke damage, but a group of homeowners told CSB News Los Angeles their FAIR Plan is denying or undervaluing their smoke claims. "The first thing when I walked in, it smelled awful," said Keith Stoller, a homeowner in the Pacific Palisades.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Kristine Lazar
Are you paying more than your neighbor for that backpack online? Consumer advocates say you can, all because of surveillance pricing. As a mom to three kids, I shop a lot, and it's usually done online. I didn't really know how surveillance pricing works until I believed that I had become the target of what consumer advocates say is a deceptive practice that could soon become illegal in California.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Kristine Lazar
Bobbie and Gerald Watkins planned to live out the rest of their lives in their Palisades home. Bobbie is 88 and Gerald, a holocaust survivor, recently turned 97. But their condo was one of thousands of homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire. The couple were the last in the complex to evacuate. The two said they took "far too little" with them when they left. "We really thought we would be coming back," Bobbie said.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Kristine Lazar
Nonprofit connects former wildfire survivors to current survivors | On Your Side A shared experience is helping to heal the hearts and minds of some of those who lost their homes to the wildfires, and it's also giving them the tools to rebuild. The nonprofit organization, After the Fire USA, connects fire victims to those who have walked this extremely hard path before them. It was born out of the destructive wildfires in the Bay Area back in 2017.
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2 months ago |
cbsnews.com | Kristine Lazar
Stories of survival are emerging in the aftermath of the Palisades and Eaton Canyon fires – from people who are amazed to find out their homes survived.
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