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• California's new regulator keeps up with the Joneses on climate

  08 January 2019

  Ricardo Lara's inaugural comments echo outgoing insurance commissioner's

• July's California wildfires to hit insurers for $845m

  07 September 2018

  Insurance commissioner warns worse fires may be coming

• California insurance commissioner takes aim at insurers over fire legislation

  29 June 2018

  Dave Jones has condemned insurers’ “insatiable appetite for profit”

• Californian commissioner seeks controls over wildfire risk models

  08 January 2018

  Concerns about availability of fire insurance have risen after 2017 blazes

• AIR raises California wildfires loss estimate to $10.5bn

  17 November 2017

  Three times higher than last month's estimates

• California wildfires cost 15 insurers $3bn

  01 November 2017

  Number is "sure to grow", says insurance commissioner

• Foreign nation behind cyber-attack on Californian insurer

  09 January 2017

  Commissioner says insurers and regulators alone cannot stop foreign government assisted attacks