The Palisades Fire could cause more than $10 billion in damages, further straining the state’s fragile insurance market. On Tuesday, after a ferocious Santa Ana windstorm blew through Southern California,

The devastating wildfires burning through Los Angeles County this week are stoking concerns that California’s already faltering home insurance market could be thrown into deeper turmoil.

The massive fires that have destroyed much of Pacific Palisades and demolished thousands of homes and structures in Los Angeles County threaten an effort to fix California's troubled home insurance market.

Industry officials warn of widespread economic damage on par with some of the biggest fire disasters in recent memory.

The wildfires that destroyed homes in multiple sections of the Los Angeles area will test California’s efforts to stabilize the state’s insurance marketplace after many insurers stopped issuing residential policies due to the high fire risk.

The once hot insuretech sector fell out of favor a few years ago. Given the scope of the current disaster though, it's not clear what role the VC-backed startups could have played.

Abandoned by their insurance carrier, one local, at great personal risk, took it upon herself to fight the fire

Insurance is going to be even harder to come by, and it is going to get incredibly more expensive than it already is. People need to be prepared for that,” said Mark Newman-Kuzel, president and owner of The Mark Newman-Kuzel Agency in Los Angeles,

There is no official dollar amount for the damages from the Los Angeles wildfires, but initial estimates by some experts put it at $20 billion to $50 billion for insurers.

The state’s plan to fix the insurance crisis had barely rolled out when the Los Angeles fires began. Can the market recover and stabilize?