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The coverage limits on commercial property policies offered by California’s FAIR Plan Association, the state’s insurer of last resort, are more than doubling, according to the California Department of Insurance (CDI).
Dear Governor Newsom:
We are writing to urge you to retain $40 million in FY 2022-2023 funding for San Joaquin River floodplain restoration. Your draft FY 2023-2024 budget proposes to eliminate these funds. We also urge you and the legislature to increase flood funding to achieve the level of state funding recommended in the new Central Valley Flood Protection Plan, which was adopted last December.
LOS ANGELES - As part of his comprehensive effort to give more insurance options to California residents and businesses, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara today announced the California FAIR Plan Association has agreed to more than double its existing commercial coverage limits to $20 million for businesses unable to find coverage in the normal insurance marketplace.
Ceres’ representative in the California State Senate, Democrat Marie Alvarado-Gil, voted against her party in a bill endorsed by Governor Newsom to “grant unyielding power to an unelected state commission to impose unprecedented regulatory actions” over the gas and oil industry.
Senator Alvarado-Gil, representing a primarily rural district where gas prices significantly impact household budgets and small business, put the interests of her constituents first and voted against SBx1 2. The bill, which was fast-tracked through the legislative process, would grant unyielding power to an unelected state commission to impose unprecedented regulatory actions.
Sacramento, CA — Democratic Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil broke with party leaders and voted against Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to put new restrictions on oil companies in response to high gas prices.
State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil – on the 101st day after taking office – sounded like the “middle-ground candidate” the Democrat ran on to win in the sprawling, Republican-leaning Fourth District that encompasses all or parts of 11 counties.
“We’ve veered too far to the left, where we have a system that often puts the rights of criminals above the victims of those crimes,” Alvarado-Gil said during a March 16 community swearing-in ceremony at the Modesto Irrigation District boardroom.