California's new smoke claims law may create recovery bottleneck for insurers
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Where there's smoke there's fire, but is the reverse true? The presumption in California could be that it is. One fallout from the plague of wildfires
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- 01California introduces legal presumption linking smoke to fire damage.
- 02The law could create inefficiencies in insurance claims processing.
- 03Direct consequence of California's escalating wildfire crisis.