John Egan is an experienced personal finance journalist who has written extensively on mortgages and home equity, insurance, credit and credit monitoring, banking, and other personal finance topics.

As more people in California lose private insurance, the state's FAIR plan is filling up with homes in places the industry ...

It provides policies for commercial properties, mobile homes, traditional homes and other structures. California FAIR Plan is an insurance conglomerate that provides coverage for those living in ...

Now she had two policies: The California FAIR Plan for fire and State Farm for everything else. She said the total cost was more than $6,000. "I'm paying two policies," she said, "more than double ...

The California FAIR Plan, a state-mandated insurance program known as the last resort for fire insurance, is facing legal ...

According to the Department of Insurance, the California FAIR Plan must ... The insurance commissioner told the FAIR Plan to update its policy language to properly cover smoke damage, but state ...

Solomon LOS ANGELES—Susan Spira called her insurer days after the Los Angeles wildfires destroyed her family’s home—only to be told her policy ... insurer, California’s Fair Plan, agreed ...

The house was covered by the California FAIR Plan ... to write property policies in California and is not funded by taxpayer dollars. The couple expected the plan to pay for smoke damage inside ...