State Farm, Farmers to raise California homeowner insurance rates - Los Angeles Times

"State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner late last month quietly approved rate-increase requests from two of the state's three largest homeowner insurance companies. No. 1 State Farm Mutual got the go-ahead for a 6.9% increase, its first in five years, while rates at third-place Farmers Group Inc. will rise 4.1%."

"A similar request for a 6.9% increase from No. 2 Allstate Corp. is pending at the state Department of Insurance. The three insurers cover about 2.5 million policyholders, more than half of the insured homes in California."

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State Farm, Farmers to raise California homeowner insurance rates - Los Angeles Times