SB 1209 (Allen) Penalizes Insurers for Not Correcting Identified Business Problems
SACRAMENTO – California’s Department of Insurance (CDI), and policyholders across the state, will soon benefit from stronger enforcement tools that will require insurers to correct business practices that are harming consumers.
SACRAMENTO – Beginning on January 1, South Bay cities will have expanded tools to finance workforce housing through their regional housing trust under SB 799, a new law authored by Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.
SB 894 (Allen) establishes low-interest loans for fire resilience upgrades
SACRAMENTO – In the face of a difficult insurance market, SB 1301, authored by Senator Ben Allen (D-Pacific Palisades), was recently signed into law to help more Californians at risk of losing their coverage on the private market.
SACRAMENTO – On Thursday, SB 766, also known as the CA CARS Act (Allen, 2025), takes effect to provide car shoppers in California with some of the strongest consumer protections in the nation, saving time, money, and lives.
SACRAMENTO – California’s film and television industry, which has seen promising production numbers over the past year, received two additional lines of support that will establish a new tax credit to support jobs in post-production and stabilize the recently modernized Film & TV Tax Credit Program.
SB 1301 and SB 1209 Sent to Governor to Improve Ratepayer Protections
SACRAMENTO – Senator Ben Allen (D-Pacific Palisades) advanced a pair of policies out of the Legislature to protect ratepayers from unnecessarily losing their insurance coverage or falling victim to bad business practices.
Senator Allen Seeks to Establish Low-Interest Loans for Home Hardening Renovations
SACRAMENTO – Few policy priorities go hand-in-hand like resilience and affordability. The benefits of increasing fire resilience, through thoughtful structural and community design, ripple beyond protecting homes and saving lives. These improvements simultaneously expand access to better, more affordable insurance policies and save public resources, infrastructure, and tax dollars.
