{"id":374324,"date":"2026-06-25T11:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374324\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:32:07","slug":"he-accused-california-insurers-of-overseeing-a-fiery-war-zone-now-he-might-regulate-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374324\/","title":{"rendered":"He accused California insurers of overseeing a fiery war zone. Now, he might regulate them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second story in an occasional series on the California insurance commissioner\u2019s race. You can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/eenews\/2026\/06\/10\/top-insurance-candidate-in-california-seeks-radical-overhaul-00955343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A state senator who has blasted insurance companies for mistreating his Los Angeles constituents after catastrophic wildfires last year is a leading candidate to regulate the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he wants to work with insurers to protect Californians from climate-related disasters.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Ben Allen (D), known in the Capitol for spearheading major environmental legislation, advanced this month from a primary election for state insurance commissioner. He will face former San Francisco official Jane Kim (D), a progressive endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), this November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the second story in an occasional series on the California insurance commissioner\u2019s race. You can read&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-374324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}