All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 24 2011 // A monster tornado killed at least 116 people in Joplin, Missouri, when it tore through the heart of the small Midwestern city, ripping the roof off a hospital and destroying thousands of homes and businesses.Weather...
May 23 2011 // A tornado swept through a small eastern Kansas town, killing one person and destroying at least 20 homes, as severe thunderstorms pelted the region with hail that some residents said was the size of baseballs, authorities...
May 20 2011 // Mississippi regulators have moved to limit homeowners’ insurance premium hikes that result from changes in an insurer’s fire grading system.Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has instructed insurers...
May 20 2011 // Jacksonville-based Fidelity National Property and Casualty Insurance Co., which covers some 12,000 homeowners in the state, is seeking a statewide average 27 percent rate increase.At a public rate hearing, Fidelity...
May 19 2011 // The swarm of tornadoes that killed more than 230 people across Alabama last month destroyed or heavily damaged more than 13,000 homes statewide and will smash the record set by Hurricane Ivan in 2004 to become the...
May 16 2011 // More than 1.8 million homes along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts are at great risk of being damaged by a hurricane, three times the number located in federally defined flood zones, according to a recently released report.The...
May 16 2011 // More than 1.8 million homes along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts are at great risk of being damaged by a hurricane, three times the number located in federally defined flood zones, according to a report released Tuesday.The...
May 16 2011 // Federal safety officials have stopped recommending removal of all electrical wiring in homes with problem drywall, a change in the safety protocol that could reduce the cost of remediation.The U.S. Consumer Product Safety...
May 16 2011 // Banning ‘Storm Vultures’Senate Bill 101 “will ensure that homeowners and others who have suffered damage to their property are not then battered by the unscrupulous acts of ‘storm vultures.'”...
May 15 2011 // Louisiana may be able to recoup much of the money it handed out following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 to help storm victims repair their homes, following a recent ruling by the state’s high court.Under a...
May 12 2011 // The Arizona Department of Insurance announced that American Family Mutual Insurance Co. will be paying approximately $1.1 million to more than 5,000 homeowner claimants.In the course of investigating a complaint, the ADOI...
May 5 2011 // Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to a bill that proponents say will help protect homeowners from unscrupulous contractors.Senate Bill 101 bars contractors who fix roofs or do other exterior repairs from...
May 2 2011 // Missouri insurance regulators say major homeowners and auto insurance companies in the state have received nearly 7,000 claims from St. Louis residents with damage from the April 22 (Good Friday) tornado.The companies...
May 2 2011 // A claims rep for Nationwide in New York has been arrested for stealing $44,900 that should have been paid to a policyholder whose home burned down.State police arrested Scott E. Wood, of Liverpool, in April. Fraud...
May 2 2011 // Michael Korn, managing principal at Integro Insurance Brokers, is a popular person these days, which is perhaps not too surprising considering he is an insurance broker in earthquake-prone San Francisco.“We’re...
Apr 28 2011 // The Illinois Department of Insurance is warning homeowners about unsolicited offers of help from insurance adjusters after recent storms in southern Illinois.The agency says these unaffiliated adjusters claim they can get...
Apr 25 2011 // Homeowners Choice Inc., a Clearwater, Florida-based provider of homeowners’ insurance, reported that Francis X. McCahill III has resigned from his position of president and chief executive officer and director of the...
Apr 22 2011 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved a filing by Sequoia Insurance Co. to offer Pay-as-You-Drive auto insurance coverage. The Monterey, Calif.-based firm joins Automobile Club of Southern California...
Apr 22 2011 // The National Weather Service says at least five tornadoes were part of the storms that battered Ohio early on April 20. Hours before, a tornado measured as an EF3 hit near Girard, Ill., about 20 miles south of Springfield...
Apr 22 2011 // A claims rep for Nationwide in New York has been arrested for stealing $44,900 that should have been paid to a policyholder whose home burned down.State police arrested Scott E. Wood, of Liverpool, earlier this month....