Tyler Perry Slams Insurance Companies For Los Angeles Fires

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Tyler Perry is slamming insurance companies for making policy changes before the deadly Los Angeles wildfires.

“Watching a daughter use a garden hose to try and protect her 90-year-old parents’ home because their insurance was canceled was just gut-wrenching to me,” Perry wrote in a statement to his Instagram on Sunday.

Perry concluded his message by writing “As I am in the process of trying to figure out what steps to take to do all I can to help as many as I can, I am keeping everyone in my prayers.” Thousands of Californians that are in the Los Angeles area have lost their homes due to the devastating wildfires.

According to the LA Times, State Farm General announced in March of 2024 that it would not renew 30,000 homeowners and condominium policies – including the 1,262 in Pacific Palisades. This was the area that was hit the hardest with fires. Chubb Insurance reportedly stopped writing policies for high-value homes with higher wildfire risk in 2021.

Allstate, Tokyo Marine American Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co had similarly made policy changes in California before the 2025 wildfires, per the LA Times. It has been estimated by AccuWeather that the fires have been causes between $135 billion and $150 billion in damages to LA. The destruction of homes, schools, businesses and infrastructure, the long-term cost of rebuilding and relocating, cleanup and recovery cost, emergency shelter and health care are piling up as the fire continues.

This would make the LA fires the most expensive in US history — equal to nearly 4% of California’s annual GDP.