Muh, gonna have to "investigate" that, and appoint a special counsel or congressional panel, to drag it out for a few years…
PFFFT
First, they lost their home insurance. Then, L.A. fires consumed their homes
Last year, Francis Bischetti said he learned that the annual cost of the homeowners policy he buys from Farmers Insurance for his Pacific Palisades home was going to soar from $4,500 to $18,000 — an amount he could not possibly afford.
Neither could he get onto the California FAIR Plan, which provides fewer benefits, because he said he would have to cut down 10 trees around his roof line to lower the fire risk — something else the 55-year-old personal assistant found too costly to manage.
So he decided he would do what's called "going bare" — not buying any coverage on his home in the community's El Medio neighborhood. He figured if he watered his property year round, that might be protection enough given its location south of Sunset Boulevard.
It wasn't. The home he lived in for nearly all his life burned down Tuesday along with more than 10,000 other homes and structures damaged or destroyed in the worst fire event in the history of Los Angeles. Sixteen deaths have been confirmed countywide.
"It was surrealistic," he said. "I’ve grown up and lived here off and on for 50 years. I’ve never in my entire time here experienced this."
Farmers Insurance declined to comment, saying it does not discuss individual policyholders.
'A train wreck coming down the track'
Bischetti was far from the only homeowner living in Pacific Palisades, Altadena or other fire-prone hillside neighborhoods who struggled to maintain their insurance amid sharply rising costs and the decision by many insurers to reduce their exposure to catastrophic wildfire claims by not renewing the policies of even longtime customers. Many fire victims reported that insurers had dropped their policies last year.
The fires — expected to be among the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history — have deepened a crisis in the state's home insurance market that was already reeling before the devastation came.
he state's largest home insurer, State Farm General, announced in March that it would not renew 30,000 homeowner and condominium policies — including 1,626 in Pacific Palisades — when they expired.
Chubb and its subsidiaries stopped writing new policies for high-value homes with higher wildfire risk in 2021. Allstate has stopped writing new policies in 2022, and Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and its subsidiary Trans Pacific Insurance Co. pulled out of the state last year, though Mercury Insurance offered to take their customers.
Liberty Mutual was sued last month by a homeowner who accused the insurer of dropping her over a bogus claim that her roof had mold damage.
Driven by a desire to maximize profits, property casualty insurance companies … have engaged in a troubling trend of dropping California homeowners’ insurance policies like flies,” said the complaint, filed in San Diego County Superior Court. A spokesperson for Liberty Mutual declined to comment on the litigation.
The inability to get coverage is reflected in the number of policies picked up by California's FAIR Plan, which as of September had about 452,000 policies, up from a little over 203,000 four years ago. FAIR Plan's website says its claims exposure is nearly $6 billion in Pacific Palisades alone.
"The situation has been a train wreck coming down the track for a while," said Rick Dinger, president of Crescenta Valley Insurance, an independent brokerage in Glendale.
Moar planned fuckery
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lost-home-insurance-policies-then-110040841.html
Freak Off's. Soft worded as "swingers party."
Police investigating 2 deaths at Shakopee hotel after swingers party
An investigation is underway after two people were found dead in a Shakopee hotel room in the aftermath of a swingers party.
The discovery was made Jan. 1, when police officers were dispatched to the Baymont Hotel on Canterbury Drive to conduct a welfare check on a man identified as Josh Quale, 47. According to a search warrant, Quale's family hadn't heard from him in days and became concerned when they discovered his work vehicle in the hotel parking lot.
The search warrant also says Quale was supposed to have checked out of his room the previous Sunday. When officers gained access to his room, they found two deceased people inside — a man and a woman — with "illegal narcotics and known drug paraphernalia" near the bodies.
The two were not immediately identified due to decomposition, but have since been confirmed as Quale and Shantelle Denise Bresson, 54.
According to KARE 11, investigators later discovered that the pair were at the Baymont for the "Big O" Frozen Fantasy Event, for which Midwest Euphoria — an organization that sets up swinging events — had rented out the entire hotel.
Shakopee Police Chief Jeff Tate said "signs point to an overdose" for both victims, and that "there was a positive test for fentanyl," the station notes.
Per Midwest Euphoria's website, the group has a "no-tolerance policy" for drugs and prostitution at its events.
Authorities are now looking into who might have sold the victims the narcotics.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-investigating-2-deaths-shakopee-153610902.html
Yeah, a Bitch.
>What defines a shill again?
The Bombardment of Copy/Paste blather that has no new information to offer.
It's the relentless, narcissistic, obsessive compulsive behavior of someone, who fails to understand that, and forces the regurgitated STALE talking points into oblivion. But, will then turn around and cry because EVERONE IS SICK OF SEEING THE SAME SHIT OVER AND OVER!