Dave Jones

It's very bad news for homeowners in Utah.

That's Dave Jones, director of UC Berkeley's Climate Risk Initiative.

He also served eight years as California's insurance commissioner.

Because insurance is required for mortgage holders, he says rising non-renewals can have serious impacts on the real estate market.

But there's been sometimes tension between the insurance commissioner and the governor.

You certainly saw that between Dave Jones and Jerry Brown.

And actually that led to some of the diminishment of the power of the commissioner, unfortunately.

And I think Dave was onto something, but Jerry didn't take it very kindly.

It could be wiped out by one fire.

It would leave the insurance industry off the hook for all the premiums that they've collected from us for many, many years.

A very pro-consumer former insurance commissioner, Dave Jones, has called it deeply regressive because ultimately her plan asks a family in Bakersfield or South LA to subsidize a canyon home in Malibu.

So that's, I think, the difference here.

Yeah, he did save us from- Including a governor and a president.

Yeah, he did save us from Attorney General Dave Jones, so there's that.

That's one good thing that he did in his career.

That's true.