Insurance Rates Climb From Fires, COVID, Inflation, Worker Shortage

Steve Nelson a partner at Nelson/Nelson Insurance Services is photographed at a home construction site in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Aug. 1, 2022. Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group/TNS

By Ethan Baron From The Mercury News

Inflation, a labor shortage, effects from the lingering COVID pandemic, and increasingly devastating fires are boosting the cost of insurance for homes, cars, and businesses.