Legislature ignores fire insurance crisis

As wildfires of record magnitude swept through Northern California last week, destroying thousands of homes and other structures, the Legislature closed its 2020 session without doing something about the fire insurance crisis that afflicts fire-prone areas.
It ranks near the top of a long list of legislative failures this year, right up there with housing shortages and police reforms.
Insurers have sustained massive losses, tens of billions of dollars, from wildfires in recent years and are incr