CA-IC: Heading to fall vote, Jane Kim touts single-payer fire-insurance plan

Jane Kim is fairly well known in San Francisco politics. She could soon become a major player statewide.

After winning nearly 26% of the vote — and counting — in a crowded field in the June 2 primary election, the former city supervisor and school-board president is in the lead in the race for state insurance commissioner, virtually guaranteeing herself a spot in the November election.

Kim, San Francisco’s first Korean-American supervisor, is aiming for an office that has come under increasing pressure in recent years amid a growing crisis in the home-insurance market.

With wildfire losses rising and inflation leading to rising rebuilding costs, major California insurers have stopped issuing new policies — and in some cases, they’ve declined to renew existing ones. They’ve also increasingly passed their costs along to customers in the form of higher premiums.



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