Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has filed a
Statement of Interest in the case of
Ferrier v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, which is currently pending in the state Superior Court of Los Angeles County, California. This case was brought by 60 homeowners who lost their homes in the devastating wildfires that occurred in southern California in January 2025. The homeowners allege that the defendants, 16 homeowner insurance companies, jointly conspired to cancel the homeowners’ fire insurance policies in the years leading up to the January 2025 fires. As a result, the homeowners claim that they were forced to obtain insurance from a state-run program that offers less protective coverage, resulting in much higher out-of-pocket expenses for rebuilding their homes.
