Stop State Farm from increasing rates on California fire survivors
State Farm is refusing to help survivors of the California Eaton and Palisades fires, delaying, denying benefits, and trying to hike insurance rates.
There are more climate-driven disasters every year, from California to the Gulf South, and from the Heartland to New England.
So no matter where you live, we need your voice to send a strong message — insurers must honor their commitments to customers.
Add your name to demand California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara deny State Farm’s rate increase and make State Farm pay what it owes.
To California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara
We urge you to:
• Conduct an expedited Market Conduct Examination targeted into State Farm’s handling of Eaton and Palisades Fire claims.
• Compel State Farm to expedite payments, provide interest or back pay where delays have caused financial harm, and take immediate action to resolve outstanding claims.
• Reject the rate increase request until the company demonstrates a clear, sustained commitment to honoring its contractual and ethical obligations to California families.
Dear Commissioner Lara,
We are survivors of the Eaton Fire and supporters standing with them.
Altadena is a working- and middle-class community that has long trusted insurance providers to show up when disaster strikes.
Many of us have been faithful State Farm policyholders for years, even decades. We paid our premiums believing that when a crisis came, we would be protected.
Now, while families turn to credit cards and crowdfunding to survive, State Farm executives are asking for another major rate hike.
As the state’s top insurance regulator, your mandate is to protect the people of California.
We urge you to:
- Conduct an expedited Market Conduct Examination targeted into State Farm’s handling of Eaton and Palisades Fire claims.
- Compel State Farm to expedite payments, provide interest or back pay where delays have caused financial harm, and take immediate action to resolve outstanding claims.
- Reject the rate increase request until the company demonstrates a clear, sustained commitment to honoring its contractual and ethical obligations to California families.
We respectfully urge your office to act now.
Sincerely,
Eaton Fire Survivors & Supporters
