State Farm has given Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara a stark choice: Approve a rate increase consumer advocates say amounts to an average of $600 annually per household, or run the risk that ...

State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said in a closed meeting on March 11 with Dan Krause, State Farm's senior vice president for the West, that he was proposing granting the insurance giant ...

Six months after the Jan. 7 fire storms that killed at least 30 people, frustrations are mounting among many homeowners over how the state's largest insurer is handling their damage claims.

After State Farm, California’s largest insurer, filed a request for an emergency 22% rate hike for homeowner policies, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Friday requested a meeting with the ...

In early February, State Farm asked California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to approve emergency interim rate increases, saying the Los Angeles Country fires had worsened its financial ...