All the headlines from our HOA Condo Association Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 31 2017 // A homeowners association representing property owners at a downtown San Francisco high-rise has sued the developers on for failing to tell residents the condominium tower was sinking at an unexpected rate.The Millennium...
Dec 16 2015 // NFS Edge Insurance Agency, Inc., a unit of Aon National Flood Services, Inc., through its Insurmark division has launched a new private flood insurance alternative to the Residential Condominium Business Association...
Nov 16 2015 // Completing the condominium insurance picture necessitates “jigsaw puzzle” tenacity. Quite a few pieces must be snapped together to assure the proper insurance picture is presented; any missing information can...
Apr 8 2015 // A group of five commercial property/casualty insurance professionals led by broker Mark Conner has joined Higginbotham in Houston. The group specializes in homeowners association (HOA) insurance and loss control, serving...
Apr 6 2015 // The family of a man killed in an Albuquerque, N.M.-area housing complex by a stray bullet that went through his door has won a $12 million judgment against a condominium association and a property management firm. A jury...
Mar 20 2015 // The family of a man killed in an Albuquerque, N.M.-area housing complex by a stray bullet that went through his door has won a $12 million judgment against a condominium association and a property management firm. KRQE-TV...
Jan 20 2015 // Complaints about how subdivision and condominium homeowners associations operate have led South Carolina lawmakers to introduce four bills to more closely regulate the groups.The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reports that...
Nov 3 2014 // Quite a few pieces must be in place to ensure no coverage gaps exist in either the condominium association’s or unit owner’s coverage picture.Three questions must be considered by the agent writing the...
Nov 1 2013 // A Las Vegas homeowners association agreed to pay $65,000 to a family after refusing to allow them to park an ambulance they used for their disabled son in the driveway, federal officials said Wednesday.The HOA admits no...
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...
Apr 10 2012 // If Trayvon Martin’s family sues over his death, they might not target George Zimmerman but instead the homeowners association of the neighborhood where the shooting happened and Zimmerman lived.That’s because...
Dec 8 2011 // The former treasurer of a Meridian, Idaho homeowners association is charged with embezzling more than $20,000 from the organization since 2006. The Idaho Statesman reported Tuesday that Kristy Jenkins is charged with...
Oct 21 2011 // A divided Georgia Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments in a case involving a woman found dead in a lagoon that was home to an eight-foot alligator in a subdivision near Savannah.Heirs of 83-year-old Gwyneth Williams...
Apr 12 2011 // Police and Nevada state attorney general’s investigators seized records from a Las Vegas homeowner association in what one member calls an embezzlement investigation.Former state Sen. Bill O’Donnell tells the...
Mar 16 2010 // Union General has an “A+” rated carrier offering coverage to California agents for common area exposure for homeowners associations. Pricing is on a per unit basis. Limits up to $2,000,000 occurrence/$3,000,000...
Nov 25 2009 // A Miami condominium association is suing its insurer, QBE Insurance Corp., and its Florida general managing agent, for more than $500 million in damages, claiming bad faith and deception in handling hurricane claims.Daniel...
Mar 2 2009 // Texas State Rep. Burt Solomons (Carrollton) has announced plans for a sweeping reform of the state’s homeowners’ association laws, including a constitutional amendment that would prohibit foreclosure of a...
Sep 11 2008 // Los Angeles-based Heritage General Agency’s has a new HOA product for up to four units for small condominium associations. The non-admitted carrier is offering this as a package; however, it can be written on a stand...
Jul 7 2008 // A firestorm of confusion and comment was created by a recent Insurance Journal report detailing a recent Maryland Court of Appeals ruling regarding a condominium associations’ requirement to pay for property damage...
Jun 25 2008 // San Diego-based ICW Group, a group of insurers, announced a new program homeowner’s associations and multi-family condos that provides expanded coverage for buildings of wood frame construction built after 1975. The...