( July 6, 2026, 1:58 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California state judge denied a consumer research and advocacy organization’s petition for a writ of mandate challenging California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s FAIR Plan assessment pass-through bulletins, holding that the provision the advocacy group relied on governs the allocation of writings, expenses, profits and losses among FAIR Plan member insurers, not insurers’ later financial dealings with policyholders....