The California insurance company that denied the most fire claims

Los Angelinos who have lost everything in the deadly fires have blasted insurance companies for denying people’s claims.

Residents are scrambling to recoup costs after at least 12,300 structures were razed to the ground by the infernos, including thousands of homes and businesses.

Now, they’re being left in the lurch by insurance giants. Three of California‘s biggest companies declined nearly half their claims in 2023, according to the LA Times.

A survey found the worst offender was LA-based Farmer Insurance, which denied around 50 percent of claims for payment.

Close behind were two USAA affiliates, who denied 48 percent of claims, and Allstate Insurance, which denied 46 percent of claims.

Peggy Holter, 83, lost the Pacific Palisades condo she had lived in since 1978 in the horrific fire which is continuing to raze through the ritzy enclave.

She now faces further turmoil after her insurer, State Farm, refused to renew her individual condo insurance, citing the condition of the roof.

Holter said she lost lots of personal items in the fire. ‘I’m not a big keeper of things, but what I did have was a whole wall of pictures and albums of all the places I had been, family photos,’ she told the LA Times.

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