All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 9 2025 // Oregon homeowners living in certain areas at high risk of wildfire will face stricter building codes and mandates to reduce vegetation on their properties under new “wildfire hazard maps” unveiled Tuesday.The...
Dec 18 2024 // Millions of U.S. homes are underinsured, not because of any added value in the homes, but because additional structures on the homeowner’s property have gone unreported and are without protection.Using artificial...
Dec 17 2024 // A coalition of consumer, environmental, and fair housing groups have called upon the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office to release homeowners insurance data before it may be too late.The nationwide data was...
Dec 16 2024 // When analysts at AM Best reviewed outlooks for the property/casualty insurance and reinsurance sectors this week, recent good news of a change in outlook for personal lines—and for personal auto insurance—were the...
Dec 10 2024 // SAN DIEGO, CA., December 10, 2024 – Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Inc. has announced the launch of a new California E&S Homeowners program. This non-admitted product is a collaboration between Arrowhead’s...
Dec 3 2024 // Dallas, TX, December 3, 2024 — Jupiter Risk Services, an affiliate of Risk Theory, is proud to launch its High Value Homeowners Insurance, a new insurance product designed specifically for single-family, high-value...
Dec 2 2024 // Progressive said it will stop offering dwelling fire insurance, with nonrenewal notices going out as early as Nov. 19.The Mayfield, Ohio-based insurer said the decision to discontinue writing the coverage, often dubbed...
Nov 18 2024 // Allstate said it sees opportunity where others may not — in homeowners insurance. And the insurer plans to use all three distribution channels to do it.Due to rising trends in the frequency and severity of...
Nov 18 2024 // A federal appeals court has affirmed that a homeowners insurance policy does not cover the theft of cryptocurrency because the loss of a digital currency does not involve a “direct physical loss” as required by...
Nov 18 2024 // The U.S. home insurance industry has experienced an upward trend in all-peril loss costs over the past seven years, according to a new report released by LexisNexis Risk Solutions. The ninth annual LexisNexis U.S. Home...
Nov 12 2024 // Progressive said it will stop offering dwelling fire insurance, with nonrenewal notices going out as early as Nov. 19.The Mayfield, Ohio-based insurer late last week said the decision to discontinue writing the coverage,...
Nov 4 2024 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has proposed modifying the state’s recently adopted premium change transparency rule.The proposal is specific to Phase 2 of the rule (the automatic inclusion of reasons...
Nov 1 2024 // Allstate said it sees opportunity where others may not — in homeowners insurance. And the insurer plans to use all three distribution channels to do it.Due to rising trends in the frequency and severity of...
Oct 29 2024 // A federal appeals court has affirmed that a homeowners insurance policy does not cover the theft of cryptocurrency because the loss of a digital currency does not involve a “direct physical loss” as required by...
Oct 24 2024 // The U.S. home insurance industry has experienced an upward trend in all-peril loss costs over the past seven years, according to a new report released by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.The ninth annual LexisNexis U.S. Home...
Oct 22 2024 // Louisiana nursing home owner Bob Dean Jr. and several companies he operated have agreed to an $8.2 million consent judgment to resolve allegations that they misappropriated and misused the assets and income of four nursing...
Oct 21 2024 // A new report from insurance broker Aon reveals that the prospective return on equity (ROE) for diversified homeowners insurance carriers decreased by 100 basis points to 5.0% from last year’s ROE, despite carriers...
Oct 11 2024 // On an early August morning, a roofing contractor arrived at a Lafayette, Louisiana couple’s house and requested permission to inspect the home’s roof. The roofer’s arrival wasn’t unexpected.The...
Oct 8 2024 // A new report from insurance broker Aon reveals that the prospective return on equity (ROE) for diversified homeowners insurance carriers decreased by 100 basis points to 5.0% from last year’s ROE, despite carriers...
Oct 7 2024 // Hippo, a publicly traded property insurance brokerage based in California, said it will expand its new homes insurance program in the disaster-prone states of Florida, Texas and California.By the end of this year, Hippo,...