Bay Briefing: Three times insured, three times dropped

Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Friday, Dec. 6, and San Francisco Opera has a new creative leader, and one of our writers found an old Market Street idea that’s new again. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. Fighting for expensive insurance When Sean Coffey and his wife, Elizabeth, bought their Oakland hills home in 2015, “it was a scramble” to get insurance. A year later, they got a nonrenewal notice and had to find another insurer. The next year, that company declined to renew. Their third company insured them for two years, then dropped them. So on Thursday, it was in front of Coffey’s house where California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced a list of ZIP codes where state-regulated insurance companies will be prohibited from not renewing policies for homes in or adjacent to recent wildfire disaster zones for one year — and called on insurance companies to do more. Read more from Kathleen Pender. S.F. Opera’s new artistic voice New SF Opera music conductor Eun Sun Kim seen in the orchestra pit of the War Memorial Opera House on Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle Eun Sun Kim,… Read full this story

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