All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 26 2012 // Missouri insurance regulators say they returned a record amount in claims recoveries to consumers in 2011.An additional $21 million was recovered from insurance companies by the Missouri Department of Insurance on behalf...
Jan 25 2012 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is opposing a recently proposed home insurance rate request for 150,000 consumers, calling it illegally excessive. Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley. Photo credit: Attorney...
Jan 25 2012 // Allstate Corp. is asking to raise rates for 144,000 Louisiana homeowners who get their insurance coverage from two Allstate companies.According to the state insurance department, Northbrook, Ill.-based Allstate wants an...
Jan 24 2012 // Searchers in the Birmingham area were going from house-to-house early Monday in an effort to rescue people trapped in their homes after storms moved across the Midwest and South, prompting tornado warnings in a handful of...
Jan 23 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa-” of Ohio-based American Modern Home Insurance Company (AMHIC) and its...
Jan 23 2012 // The wildfire that destroyed 29 homes near Reno is contained. Thousands of evacuees are back home. And the family of the woman found dead says there’s no point in prosecuting the remorseful man who accidentally...
Jan 23 2012 // For insurance agents Gary Trippe and Jim Pender, the idea for DVIC, or Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers, which aims to provide disabled veterans with employment in insurance, evolved in part from their own personal...
Jan 23 2012 // New York financial regulators are reportedly investigating several major banks to find out whether they fraudulently steered homeowners into more expensive home insurance. According to The New York Times, the office of...
Jan 23 2012 // Forecasters say two tornados hit the Houston area during early January thunderstorms that flooded roads and knocked out power. The National Weather Service said a tornado with 95 mph winds touched down on Jan. 9 in Mission...
Jan 16 2012 // Homeowners insurance premiums in Louisiana remain among the nation’s highest, but are rising much more slowly than they did in the first two years after Hurricane Katrina, new data from by the National Association of...
Jan 11 2012 // New York financial regulators are reportedly investigating several major banks to find out whether they fraudulently steered homeowners into more expensive home insurance.According to The New York Times, the office of...
Jan 10 2012 // A South Carolina judge has granted preliminary class-action status to lawsuits alleging defective stucco work on homes in Sun City Hilton Head.The Island Packet of Hilton Head reported that Judge J. Michael Baxley issued...
Jan 9 2012 // Fresh data shows Louisiana’s insurer of last resort keeps churning away on getting private insurers to pick up policyholders, a problem largely stemming from the 2005 hurricanes.For policyholders of Louisiana...
Jan 9 2012 // Residents in North Carolina will see a rate decrease for their dwelling fire coverage but no change in the cost of their dwelling extended coverage. North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has ordered a...
Jan 9 2012 // Two insurers that together hold the lion’s share of the homeowners insurance market in Texas are either in the process of raising rates or have filed for increases.Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman on Dec. 1,...
Jan 5 2012 // State Auto Financial Corp., based in Columbus, Ohio, announced that the State Auto Group has entered into a quota share reinsurance agreement with a syndicate of reinsurers covering its homeowners book of business. The...
Jan 3 2012 // Fire safety officials are warning homeowners about the dangers of fireplace ashes after a Christmas morning blaze that killed five people in Connecticut.Authorities say the fire in Stamford was caused by a bag of fireplace...
Jan 3 2012 // The Connecticut public health department is urging residents to test their homes for radon gas, the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers. Health officials estimate that radon is responsible for more than 21,000 lung...
Dec 29 2011 // One of North Carolina’s largest homeowners’ insurers says it is considering canceling the coverage of up to 70,000 homeowners unless the state Legislature makes changes allowing it to charge higher rates.North...
Dec 27 2011 // Some Oklahoma residents may have felt their homes shake on Christmas Day, but it wasn’t because reindeer had landed on the roof.The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 3.3-magnitude quake struck around 8:10 a.m. on...