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Lol nobody has earthquake insurance. It's exorbitantly priced.

• jiveturkey 9y ago
  11% of homeowners have earthquake coverage in CA. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-agenda-earthquake-insurance-20171002-story.html http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-agenda-earthquake-insu... Like all insurance, the price reflects the risk vs the number of buyers. If more people had it, the price would be less exorbitant.
  • positr0n 9y ago
    I'd think that 11% of CA homeowners is large enough that you have already hit the economies of scale and the price is largely a factor of risk. Quintupling that number is not going to reduce the price.
    • kazinator 9y ago
      The number won't quintuple unless the price is reduced. Of course if 89% of the people were cheerfully willing to pay what the 11% are paying, then the price wouldn't change. And in that imaginary world, 89% would be covered. The question is why don't the insurance people work a bit harder to broaden the coverage; they could make more money even at a lower price point. Perhaps, those who are not covered are too resistant; they are not willing to get the coverage even at a reasonable price because of the way they perceive the risk/benefit. So that is to say, maybe it's a "hard sell".