Frank Renfro and Michael Funari share many Palisades residents frustrations with insurance. Funari will moderate on Friday.
Photo: RICH SCHMITT
A California Insurance Commissioner candidate forum will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. on Friday, March 27, at the Palisades Recovery Coalition, 15233 La Cruz Drive. This forum will be in person and via Zoom.
Given the problems with the Fair Plan and other insurance issues after the Palisades Fire, the next person selected as insurance commissioner will be responsible for shaping how insurance is handled in this state.
The four-person forum will include Democrats Patrick Wolff, Ben Allen and Steve Bradford and Republican Merritt Farren, who lost his home in the Palisades Fire.
Wolff is a financial analyst, who says he is fighting to bring fairness, transparency and reform to the broken system.
Allen, currently a California State Senator, has experience with climate, housing and consumer policy.
Bradford is a longtime public servant focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.
Farren, spent more than 30 years at Disney and Amazon in business, tech and law. After the fire he took on State Farm Insurance and a judge allowed him to be part of the suit.
The forum will be moderated by Mike Furnari, a PaliBuilds Rebuilding Advocate, who has helped numerous Palisadians with insurance issues.
Several topics to be discussed include: 1) homeowners insurance availability, 2) the future of the California Fair Plan, 3) healthy marketplace competition and 4) technology solutions.
To register: click here.
Zoom link:click here.