Liza Tucker

2 months ago | consumerwatchdog.org | Liza Tucker |SoCal Gas

Los Angeles, CA—While approvals for new oil well drilling permits in California dwindled to 73 in 2024–from 2,664 in 2019 when Governor Newsom took office, 2024 ended with oil regulators dropping the ball on requiring adequate amounts of bonding to protect taxpayers from plugging and cleanup in a massive oil acquisition deal, Consumer Watchdog and FracTracker Alliance said today. Instead, regulators halved the bonding requirement for the California Resources Corp.

Jan 8, 2025 | consumerwatchdog.org | Liza Tucker

Frank Egger’s home insurance story mirrors many others whose home insurance policies were non-renewed and who faced the CA FAIR Plan as the alternative. But he gained some insights into why so many people in Fairfax may be being non-renewed. Frank is a former seven term Mayor of Fairfax, a town in Marin County. He bought a 900-square-foot home there in 1962. It’s been extensively re-modelled and is now 1,600-square-feet.

Jan 7, 2025 | consumerwatchdog.org | Liza Tucker

Natalie is calling out home insurers for raising rates but not giving homeowners and their communities credit for the work they have already done, and continue to do, to mitigate against wildfire. Natalie lives in Novato, the largest city in Marin County on the southwestern, mountainous side of town. She owns a 2,200-square-foot Spanish style stucco house with adobe shingles. The house is up on a hill with wide streets, pruned shrubs, and trees all around.

Aug 22, 2024 | consumerwatchdog.org | Liza Tucker

Bruce Breslau is a communications professional who lives with his husband in the California West community on the historic Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth. It’s got 290 units and its homeowners’ association (HOA) was recently slammed with the double whammy of Farmers Insurance terminating the community’s home insurance and a hybrid package of new insurance offered by multiple carriers that pushed the premium up 400% over the year before.

Aug 7, 2024 | consumerwatchdog.org | Liza Tucker

California homeowners are not just facing losing their comprehensive home insurance and being forced onto the CA FAIR Plan for wildfire coverage. They are also facing lowball estimates and trouble getting claims paid by companies that dovetail with the FAIR plan to offer home insurance for everything else. In some cases, they are even cancelled by these companies after filing a claim. All of the above happened to Gigi Bannister and her husband.