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14 May 2025Insurance

California feinted, then folded; State Farm gets its rate hike

California signed off on a hotly contended emergency rate request from its largest homeowners' carrier State Farm, working to soften the tone from a 15% to 38% hit to insurance customers with a reminder of the state's insurance crisis and vows for further review.

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