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19 August 2025Insurance

Mercury calls for rate hike for customers in higher wildfire risk areas

Mercury, the third-largest home insurer in California, has requested a 6.9% rate increase for California homeowners using the Verisk wildfire cat model -- the first rate filing to use the recently approved model.

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