From left, insurance commissioner candidates Ben Allen and Jane Kim.(Fred Greaves / CalMatters) Californians are choosing a new insurance commissioner after almost a decade of deadly wildfires that threw the state’s property insurance market into a crisis from which it is still trying to recover. Two Democrats are…

Besides picking a new governor, California voters are electing an insurance commissioner, attorney general, superintendent, treasurer and controller.

Californians are choosing a new insurance commissioner after almost a decade of deadly wildfires that threw the state’s property insurance market into a crisis from which it is still trying to recover. Two Democrats are competing for the position for the first time. Jane Kim, the former San Francisco supervisor, wants…

How do you distinguish between the two Democrats running for insurance commissioner? Well, one of them wants state-backed public insurance. We have more on that, as well as details on a move campaigns are using to dodge spending limits this fall. But we have more than election news in your inbox today. California…