After saying it would run out of funds by March, California's last-resort fire insurance provider will impose a special charge of $1 billion on insurance companies — which will in turn pass the costs ...

Psychotherapist Orit Weksler operates out of a bright office in Berkeley outfitted with a big, yellow couch, a box filled with sand and shelves stocked with small plastic figurines for patients to ...

What's a Berkeley homeowner to do? We spoke with Amy Bach, co-founder and executive director of United Policyholders, a 33-year-old advocacy organization for insurance consumers. We asked her about ...