After buying home insurance from Liberty Mutual more than 35 years ago, Bob St. Clair received a letter stating that because his house in the Whispering Pines neighborhood of Scotts Valley was facing increased risk of wildfire and difficulty of access by emergency vehicles, Liberty Mutual was “choosing not to renew” his home insurance policy.

Firefighters near Yosemite National Park are racing to contain the deadly Ferguson Fire as hotter temperatures raise the danger for thousands of homes potentially in its path.

It was a faint cry of "help" almost drowned out by crashing waves, but Chelsea Moore heard it as she and her husband hiked on a rocky California beach so remote the couple had to use ropes to rappel into it.

Georgia has joined fifteen other states which have outlawed the use of hand-held cellphones and mobile devices while driving. A new law signed by Governor Nathan Deal makes watching movies, shooting video, and even the mere “holding” of hand-held devices while in the vehicle—even while stopped—illegal.

Hundreds of lawsuits alleging Roundup weed killer causes cancer cleared a big hurdle this week when a federal judge ruled that cancer victims and their families could present expert testimony linking the herbicide to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Two wildfire survivors joined elected supervisors from three counties and a local government advocate Wednesday in calling on state lawmakers to withhold action this year on changes in the law governing public utility liability for fire damage to private property.

Hippo, the California-based insurtech company that is transforming home insurance for savvy homeowners, experienced substantial growth the past year as homeowners demand a reimagined way insurance is developed, bought, and serviced.

Firefighters continued to build containment around several destructive wildfires in California amid a somewhat promising forecast. But one stubborn blaze in the northern part of the state grew significantly and crossed the border into Oregon.

A wildfire in northern California destroyed buildings and forced hundreds of people to evacuate from nearby communities, prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency.

In 2015, there were more than 6.3 million car accidents reported that involved property damage with insurance fraud accounting for 10 percent of property/casualty claims processed. While not every accident resulted in an insurance claim, those that did required extensive effort to be verified manually.

The state Assembly Insurance Committee approved on Wednesday legislation to revamp insurance rules in the aftermath of natural disasters, but removed a provision that could have aided victims of last year’s North Bay fires.

A wildfire in Northern California that forced 1,500 people to flee their homes continues to grow and is heading toward a sparsely populated area in a region hit hard by wildfires in recent years, Cal Fire said.

Flames raced through eastern Lake County on Sunday, devouring 7,700 acres and forcing thousands to flee for their lives in the first major wildfire to erupt in the North Bay since the October firestorm.

Crews are working to fix a sinkhole that opened up following a crash in front of a Downey home Saturday night.

Hundreds of thousands of homes along U.S. coasts are at risk of devastating coastal flooding over the next 30 years as climate change causes oceans to rise, according to a new study.