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Before people who lost their homes in the Los Angeles wildfires can rebuild, they need money. But how does an insurance company figure out what a house is worth when there's nothing left standing?

When you’ve been injured in a car accident, you expect the insurance company to compensate you fairly. Unfortunately, that’s rarely how it works. Insurance companies are for-profit businesses, and ...