All the headlines from our Condominium Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 31 2013 // A developer and construction company have agreed to make changes to a Bozeman, Mont. condominium following a federal lawsuit about handicap accessibility.The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports in a story on Sunday that Saddle...
Dec 30 2013 // A couple will receive nearly $1.2 million to settle their lawsuit against a Molokai condo association.Jim and Nancy Bevill claimed they became targets for abuse after attempting to elect new board leaders for the Ke Nani...
Dec 16 2013 // A Clarendon County jury has awarded $890,000 in damages to a man after members of the governing board at his condominium wrongly identified him as a registered sex offender.James E. King thinks the situation stemmed from a...
Oct 22 2013 // The developer of a mold- and water-plagued condominium complex in Manatee County alleges in a lawsuit that a handful of former and current residents conspired to hack emails and to create a website slamming the company in...
Sep 23 2013 // Capital Insurance Group (CIG), a regional property and casualty insurer serving the Western U.S., has released three new 2 percent total premium credits for commercial apartment and condominium lines. The Stovetop...
Aug 16 2013 // 1. To adequately insure one’s condo apartment, it is important to review the condo association’s bylaws and proprietary lease to find out which structural parts of the condo units are covered by the association...
Aug 5 2013 // To adequately insure one’s condo apartment, it is important to review the condo association’s bylaws and proprietary lease to find out which structural parts of the condo units are covered by the association...
Sep 24 2012 // A federal appellate court has reversed a $7.2 million judgment and ordered a new trial in a Florida hurricane insurance case.The 11th Circuit Court of Appeal issued the ruling in Atlanta based on a May opinion by the...
May 1 2012 // Developers of an Orange Beach, Alabama condo project say BP should pay out a claim they filed for losses they say resulted from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The Press-Register reported that developer Larry...
Jan 9 2012 // Florida condominium buildings will see no rate increase for now. Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has been looking to shed some of its current 1.5 million policyholders. One proposal called for capping the available...
Dec 20 2011 // Florida condominium buildings that rent out 25 percent of their units will see no rate increase for now despite playing a key role in the state’s largest property insurer’s plan to reduce its policy count.Since...
Dec 5 2011 // Florida residents in high-value condominium buildings insured by the state-backed insurer could see their premiums rise 19 percent.Rates charged by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. for its commercial residential...
Nov 16 2011 // Florida residents living in high-value condominium buildings insured by the state’s government-run homeowners’ insurer could see their rates increase by 19 percent on average.Citizens Property Insurance Corp.,...
Jun 21 2011 // A new commercial multi-peril package policy from the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. will provide apartment building owners and co-op and condominium associations with a package of property, casualty, workers compensation,...
May 16 2011 // When he signed to buy a condo at Vermont’s Stowe Mountain Resort, Patrick Sullivan was told his share of fees charged by the resort developer for hotel-type services would be about $410 a year, not the roughly $8,000...
Apr 21 2011 // Authorities are trying to determine if a lightning strike from severe thunder storms sparked a fire that caused extensive damage to a suburban Buffalo condominium complex.WGRZ-TV reports that firefighters arriving on the...
Mar 15 2011 // A group of condominium owners in northern Kentucky is hoping a judge’s ruling will give them an opportunity to collect several million dollars from a defunct construction company they say did shoddy work on their...
Oct 12 2010 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has approved additional rate increases for state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. The latest round affects condominium associations, commercial buildings, rental...
Aug 6 2010 // Fire investigators say a propane leak from a basement heating unit was the cause of a deadly explosion at a condominium under construction in Massachusetts. State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said that damage to the heating...
Jul 26 2010 // A tornado tore through western New York on Saturday, ripping the roof off a condominium and damaging 17 others and causing widespread power outages.The National Weather Service said the twister touched down in Mayville in...