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LA Fires,
Civil Litigation

Jun. 16, 2025

State Farm faces probe over wildfire claims handling

California's insurance regulator investigates State Farm's handling of January wildfire claims, amid concerns over underpayments and delays, potentially setting new standards for disaster-related insurance claims.

Attorneys praised the announcement that the state's insurance regulator was investigating State Farm's handling of claims stemming from the January wildfires but cautioned that its impact on litigation would be anything but certain.

"Part of me worries these are just words, a political or PR move to calm people down and to placate other politicians," Kabateck LLP's managing partner Shant A. Karnikian said Friday. "If the California Department of Insuranc...

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