John Egan is an experienced personal finance journalist who has written extensively on mortgages and home equity, insurance, credit and credit monitoring, banking, and other personal finance topics.

One of the benefits of being a renter is that, if there are damages, you're not responsible for the physical structure you live in. But if you want to financially protect your personal belongings in ...

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. Three decades ago, Nancy Wallace narrowly escaped death in what was then California's most destructive wildfire. Since then, ...

California homeowners are suing dozens of insurance companies, claiming they devised an “illegal scheme” to boost profits by dropping customers and reducing coverage across the state. By shrinking ...

California and Florida have for years been the canary in the gold mine for a homeowner insurance crisis that experts warn might soon spread to many more states across the country. The two ...

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California regulators have approved two major insurers' requests to raise rates for a total of 660,000 customers starting later this year. The rate hikes, according to the insurers, were necessary to ...