Exclusive: California insurance commissioner unsure whether fires will delay statewide relief from reforms

The Los Angeles fires have cast uncertainty over when the insurance crisis buffeting the entire state will ease, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara told the Chronicle during an interview Saturday in Santa Monica, where he was attending a workshop for wildfire survivors. Asked whether a slate of reforms that his office just pushed through would still bring relief this year, as he had previously anticipated, Lara said, “I don’t know...