Farmers Insurance Estimates $600 Million 'Loss' Due to California Wildfires

Farmers Insurance Estimates $600 Million ‘Loss’ Due to California Wildfires


Farmers Insurance estimated that it would lose roughly $600 million as a result of the Los Angeles area wildfires that occurred in California at the beginning of the year.

The insurance company, which is described as being one of the United States’s “largest insurers of vehicles, homes and small businesses” that provides “a wide range of other insurance and financial services products,” explained that the “figure includes payments from its reinsurance program but not an expected assessment from the FAIR Plan,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

In a press release from the insurance company, Farmers Insurance explained that “initial estimates indicate an expected loss resulting from the wildfires of $0.6 billion, net of the per occurrence reinsurance program and gross of tax (excludes the

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