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California To Take Emergency Action In Effort To Stabilize Home Insurance Marketplace
California To Take Emergency Action In Effort To Stabilize Home Insurance Marketplace
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Length:
11 minutes
Released:
Sep 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Governor Gavin Newsom has asked the state insurance commission to take emergency action to fix the troubled homeowner's insurance market. This comes after State Farm, Allstate and more than half of the top 12 insurance groups have paused or restricted new business in the state.
Reporter: Kevin Stark, KQED
More than 300,000 Californians have lost health insurance since the state resumed Medi-Cal eligibility checks it had suspended during the pandemic. The majority of Californians who lost Medi-Cal got kicked off because of paperwork. Some didn’t send in their renewal packets, while others had errors on their forms.
Reporter: Shreya Agrawal, CalMatters
A prestigious national laboratory is partnering with CSU Bakersfield to advance green energy research in the San Joaquin Valley. The partnership is seen by some as historic in nature.
Reporter: Joshua Yeager, KVPR
Jacob Rock is a non-verbal, autistic teenager from Los Angeles who wasn’t able to speak until 2020. That’s when he began to vividly type out his thoughts and feelings on an iPad. His parents were flabbergasted to realize that he could read and write and convey his emotions and creativity through text.
Reporter: Sasha Khokha, The California Report Magazine
Reporter: Kevin Stark, KQED
More than 300,000 Californians have lost health insurance since the state resumed Medi-Cal eligibility checks it had suspended during the pandemic. The majority of Californians who lost Medi-Cal got kicked off because of paperwork. Some didn’t send in their renewal packets, while others had errors on their forms.
Reporter: Shreya Agrawal, CalMatters
A prestigious national laboratory is partnering with CSU Bakersfield to advance green energy research in the San Joaquin Valley. The partnership is seen by some as historic in nature.
Reporter: Joshua Yeager, KVPR
Jacob Rock is a non-verbal, autistic teenager from Los Angeles who wasn’t able to speak until 2020. That’s when he began to vividly type out his thoughts and feelings on an iPad. His parents were flabbergasted to realize that he could read and write and convey his emotions and creativity through text.
Reporter: Sasha Khokha, The California Report Magazine
Released:
Sep 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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