Levi Sumagaysay
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 22
- Latest publication
- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Insurance bills (opens the original)
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Why it matters: One bill, Senate Bill 877, would have required insurance companies to explain in more detail to their customers how their claims payments are calculated. Another, SB 878, would have required insurers to pay claims within a certain amount of time, and imposed penalties for delays. Why now: In his veto statement Sunday, the governor said the bills codified existing regulations and were “unnecessary at this time.”
Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics? (opens the original)
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One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed two bills that would have helped improve the insurance-claims process for consumers but signed one that also addresses claims-related issues, leaving Los Angeles County fire survivors and others wondering whether the vetoes were re
Insurers say they’re starting to write new California homeowner policies, but how many? (opens the original)
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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Insurance companies are starting to write new policies in California again after years of holding back as wildfire risk climbed higher. The state Insurance Department says that means outgoing Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s new regulations, intended to boost insurance availability, are working. Each time a company declares its plans to sell policies again, the department touts it as a win. But the state has not release
$40M Uber ruling (opens the original)
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Uber's response: The arbitrator rejected Uber’s arguments that California’s Proposition 22 — a voter-approved law written by Uber and other gig companies that cemented drivers’ status as independent contractors, not employees — shields it from liability for a driver’s actions. Stone wrote that when California voters passed Prop. 22 in 2020, they could not have intended to do away with Uber’s liability for its drivers’ actions. He noted that the language in the ballot proposition urging voters to
Uber ordered to pay $40 million after stranded passenger killed on highway (opens the original)
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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Uber must pay $40 million to the parents of a woman who was struck and killed after an Uber driver left her on an Orange County freeway in 2023, an arbitrator has ruled. The arbitrator rejected Uber’s arguments that California’s Proposition 22 — a voter-approved law written by Uber and other gig companies that cemented drivers’ status as independent contractors, not employees — shields it from liability for a drive
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