Data: Insurify; Map: Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios California car insurance prices dipped 8% last year after a post-pandemic stretch of skyrocketing costs, a new Insurify report finds. By the numbers: The ...

After years of sticker shock, California drivers finally caught a break last year. Average full-coverage auto premiums fell about 8% in 2025, landing around $2,309 a year and trimming roughly $208 off ...

MarketWatch Guides may receive compensation from companies that appear on this page. The compensation may impact how, where and in what order products appear, but it does not influence the ...

Nothing is cheap in California compared to the rest of the U.S., but car insurance is by far one of the worst offenders. Why ...

Car insurance rates in California increased by nearly 50% in 2024, according to a recent report, with full coverage now costing drivers an average of $2,575 annually—11% more than the national average ...

To drive legally in California, you're required to have liability insurance, which pays for others’ injuries and property damage you cause in an accident. Many, or all, of the products featured on ...

California auto insurers are “slow walking” new policy applications and engaging in a host of tactics to discourage, delay, and deny customer access to insurance in a strategy to stem losses, ...

Despite new, higher minimum car insurance requirements, Californians paid less for car insurance in 2025 than in the previous four years, a new report shows. The average cost of full-coverage car ...

RaShawn Mitchner is a MarketWatch Guides team senior editor covering personal finance topics and insurance. She’s spent over a decade writing and editing articles about how to save money on travel, ...