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State Farm has not been a good neighbor for California fire victims

State Farm has not been a good neighbor. 

The insurance giant is in hot water with the Trump administration, and now the State of California, for its poor performance in compensating victims of the Eaton and Palisades Fires. 

Residents paid their premiums dutifully for years. But when disaster struck, they were on their own. 

State Farm notoriously dropped thousands of households from their policies, forcing them onto the California FAIR plan (which some took to calling the “un-FAIR plan”).

But those lucky enough to have insurance as of January 7, 2025 — the date of the fires — had to struggle to get State Farm to pay.

The Bloomington, Illinois, insurer made lowball offers to some policyholders, amounting to a small fraction of their losses, perhaps hoping they were desperate enough to accept.

The company also shuffled and reshuffled adjusters, so that months after working with one State Farm representative, a policyholder often had to start all over again with the next.

Perhaps most painful of all, State Farm required people........

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