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California Follows the Disastrous Flood Insurance Path to Fire Insurance Fiasco
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R.J. Lehmann
Aug 5, 2019
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originally published in
Reason
“Nearly half of all new homes are built in the wildfire-prone wildland-urban interface,” the R Street Institute’s Ray Lehmann wrote in May in the Insurance Journal. “To the extent that insurers are showing themselves less eager to extend coverage to properties in the wildland-urban interface, those are market signals we should heed, not try to override.”
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