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Insurance

Sep. 1, 2023

Lobbyists said to be penning insurance overhaul

Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court said he recorded a lobbyist on a plane predicting a last minute “gut and amend” insurance bill in the last three weeks of California’s legislative session.

Lobbyists are circulating a four-part plan to overhaul homeowners insurance in California, according to a well-known industry critic who disclosed a secret recording this week.

Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court announced on Thursday he recorded lobbyist Michael Gunning’s conversation when the pair sat near each other on a Southwest Airlines flight a week earlier. In the audio, which Court posted online, Gunning appears to tell someone...

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