California’s elected insurance commissioner has asked the state’s insurers to make maximum payments for the contents of homes destroyed in last month’s Southern California fire disaster without requiring policyholders to provide a complete inventory of all they lost.
Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s office encouraged insurers to make the payments, saying the companies should report back by Feb. 28 whether they have gone along with the request.
“It is inhumane to require wildfire survivors who have lost everything to list every item of personal property in order to receive the full replacement cost under their policies,” Lara said in a statement Thursday. “They need to focus on the larger task of rebuilding their lives.”…