Some insurance companies have not been paying to clean up asbestos and lead in the case of homeowners claims. We're suing them!
Read MoreFire strikes. Your house and things are lost. Insurance is supposed to soften the blow. Right?
Read MoreThe insurance companies do. You should.
Especially now that brush fires have devastated California.
Read MoreDo this: take a piece of paper. Write down the word "vacant", and then write out a simple definition. Do the same for the word "unoccupied."
Go ahead. We'll wait. . . .
Read MoreWe haven't had occasion to use the phrase Jim Crow in a legal brief in years, but battling AAA (aka CSAA) over its insistence that our unmarried clients reveal their private communications has forced our hand.
Read MoreNot long ago we wrote here that that AAA (aka CSAA) tried to get our clients, men living together for a very long time, to reveal their spousal communications. In other words, pillow talk. The good news is that in California the law says married people don't have to reveal pillow talk. The bad news is people like my clients could not get married until pretty recently.
Read MoreSometimes we wonder if insurance companies spend their days armed to the teeth, hunting for their own feet.
Turns out the great California insurer AAA--you know, the people with the maps and the guidebooks--in order to increase its profits, has insulted its thousands of gay customers . . .
Read MoreSay you own a home in a marginal neighborhood. Your family has been there for many years and you love it. But the area has seen better days and property values are on the low side. In that case—and also if you own a home where forest fires are a problem—you may have trouble finding regular homeowners insurance.
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