Insurance Law

“Even with the right regulations in place, insurers aren’t known for embracing change,” said Dave Jones, California’s former Department of Insurance head who now runs the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley Law. “It’s a very conservative industry. You need to show them that an insurer is able to (make money doing this) before others will follow suit.” 

Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) joins Forum to discuss how the fires will impact the state’s insurance industry and the future of insurance in a climate change-charged world.

“We are marching steadily towards an uninsurable future in this country,” says Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

“We’re marching toward a future where insurance is not going to be available or affordable,” said Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law.

Dave Jones, a former California insurance commissioner and now director of the climate risk initiative at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law weighs in on insurance companies practice of arbitrarily adjusting its algorithm to approve more prior authorization requests.

Lecturer Joseph Lavitt answers questions about comprehensive and collision insurance.

Lecturer Joseph Levitt discusses use of aerial photography by insurance companies.