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California officials took legal action against State Farm, alleging unlawful delays, denials, and underpayments of home-insurance claims from last year’s Los Angeles wildfires.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

The inspector-general’s office told MarketWatch that those estimates were based on sampling payments made to beneficiaries in the past two years, though the figures are thought to represent total cumulative underpayments to the beneficiaries.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

All three firms blamed past payroll problems for the underpayments and said all affected staff had been remunerated.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

According to the nonprofit Department of Angels, 70% of the roughly 2,000 insured Eaton and Palisades fire survivors who were surveyed said delays, denials and underpayments are “actively derailing recovery.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2025

The projected gross tax gap — made up of failed payments through nonfiling, underreporting and underpayments — doesn’t account for late payments or IRS enforcement.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2023