A bill sponsored by California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and state Senator Ben Allen is trying to force insurers in the state to pay homeowners 100 percent coverage for belongings inside destroyed homes without an itemized list.
The legislation, if passed, would apply only to those whose homes were destroyed in natural disasters like wildfires.
Newsweek contacted the California Department of Insurance (CDI) and Allen for comment by email on Tuesday morning.
Why It Matters
The wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles County last month are estimated to have destroyed as many as 12,000 homes as they turned entire neighborhoods into ashes…