Related: Allstate joins State Farm, stops issuing new homeowners insurance policies in CA [0] (58 points, 11 months ago, 29 comments). Although strangely this article says it happened 2 years ago?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36161239

I'm still waiting for the "collapse of the housing market" as predicted in that comment thread.

Its resuming from the stoppage, which happened two years ago.