All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 23 2012 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced a 30.5 percent rate reduction, for “lender-placed” homeowners’ insurance coverage offered by American Security Insurance Co., an Assurant Inc.-owned...
Oct 23 2012 // When commercial lines insurance agent and dog owner Debbie Turner began to look into help for her difficult dog back in 2000, she had no idea that her journey would end up leading to a new personal lines insurance...
Oct 22 2012 // Before the financial crash of 2008, it was highly educated Americans who were most likely to pile on unmanageable levels of debt, suggests a new study, one of those that seems to turn conventional wisdom on its...
Oct 22 2012 // Property insurance claims in Oklahoma totaled $1.6 billion in 2011, according to one attorney familiar with the property insurance market in that state. Much of that was the result of catastrophic weather conditions that...
Oct 22 2012 // Before the financial crash of 2008, it was highly educated Americans who were most likely to pile on unmanageable levels of debt, suggests a new study, one of those that seems to turn conventional wisdom on its...
Oct 22 2012 // The cost of homeowners insurance claims has been rising rapidly because of the combined effects of rising claim severity and increases in claim frequency, according to an insurance industry report.A recent Insurance...
Oct 18 2012 // The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), part of Munich Re, has introduced a new concept in homeowners insurance, HSB HomeWorks, which combines breakdown coverage for home equipment systems,...
Oct 11 2012 // Property insurance claims in Oklahoma totaled $1.6 billion in 2011, according to one attorney familiar with the property insurance market in that state. Much of that was the result of catastrophic weather conditions that...
Oct 9 2012 // Cooking fires continue to far exceed most home-related fires, and they are more expensive to repair, according to a new study from Nationwide Insurance.Fires that start on the stove outpace appliance, fireplace, smoking,...
Oct 8 2012 // Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner Ralph Hudgens and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) remind homeowners that Fire Prevention Week is October 7-13. The theme this year is, “Have Two Ways...
Oct 8 2012 // Hydrofracking has become a hot-button issue in New York State. Government agencies have been researching for the past four years the potential environmental impact of permitting hydrofracking in Marcellus Shale, which is...
Oct 8 2012 // The cost of homeowners insurance claims has been rising rapidly because of the combined effects of rising claim severity and increases in claim frequency, according to an insurance industry report.A new Insurance Research...
Oct 8 2012 // The cost of homeowners insurance claims has been rising rapidly because of the combined effects of rising claim severity and increases in claim frequency, according to an insurance industry report.A new Insurance Research...
Oct 8 2012 // The cost of homeowners insurance claims has been rising rapidly because of the combined effects of rising claim severity and increases in claim frequency, according to an insurance industry report.A new Insurance Research...
Oct 8 2012 // Overall customer satisfaction with homeowners insurance companies is the highest in the 12 years J.D. Power and Associates has measured it, driven in part by the bundling auto and homeowners policies.Overall satisfaction...
Oct 8 2012 // More than 2 million homes in California face “extreme wildfire hazards,” over 400,000 of which are in Los Angeles County, according to a study from an insurance industry group.A separate study shows at least...
Oct 8 2012 // Small companies often believe that they do not have enough homeowners data to build custom rating territories based on different perils, and therefore simply adopt the territories of a competitor. But because catastrophe...
Oct 8 2012 // The cost of homeowners insurance claims has been rising rapidly because of the combined effects of rising claim severity and increases in claim frequency, according to an insurance industry report.An Insurance Research...
Oct 5 2012 // State officials now say 11 homes and 24 other structures were destroyed by the wildfire that threatened the northwestern Minnesota city town of Karlstad.Jean Goad, a spokeswoman for the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center,...
Oct 4 2012 // North Carolina homeowners could see their first rate increase in four years as the state’s rating bureau called for a statewide average 17.7 percent increase in loss cost rates.The North Carolina Rate Bureau filed...