All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 5 2010 // Louisiana remains the third most expensive homeowners insurance market in the nation behind Florida and Texas, according to newly released data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.The average premium...
Jan 4 2010 // USHT Inc., a managing general agent and surplus lines agency based in Dallas, is now offering a homeowners deductible buy-back policy in Texas.The Texas Homeowners Deductible Buy-Back Policy is a separate policy that is...
Dec 31 2009 // Wildfires roared across a swath of Western Australia on Wednesday, razing almost 40 homes and sending hundreds of people fleeing for their lives, officials and witnesses said. At least three people were injured.Two major...
Dec 30 2009 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that on average Ohioans paid slightly more for homeowners insurance in 2007 than in 2006, according to a report issued by the National Association of Insurance...
Dec 29 2009 // State officials have authorized a private Florida insurer to accept 23,000 policies from the state-owned insurer, Citizens Property Insurance Corp.Homeowners Choice, Inc. said the assumption of these policies represents a...
Dec 28 2009 // More Cedar Rapids homeowners are accepting buyout offers for their flood-damaged properties.Officials say 17 more homeowners have signed offers to have the city buy their properties, which were heavily damaged in the flood...
Dec 28 2009 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm has issued a cease and desist order against Patricia Howard, a Dunn Center insurance agent, who is alleged to have engaged in deceitful and dishonest practices against her...
Dec 28 2009 // The New York State Insurance Department has ordered insurers Homesite Insurance Co. and Security Mutual Insurance Co. to offer to reinstate at total of 260 homeowners’ policies across the state.Regulators say the...
Dec 22 2009 // Homeowners insurance customers who file a property claim are much less satisfied with their claims experience than auto claimants, according to a new study.The satisfaction level of homeowners claimants is significantly...
Dec 21 2009 // The American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS) has initiated a countrywide filing of a new earthquake rating plan under its Homeowners Program.The earthquake plan, which consists of self-contained manual...
Dec 18 2009 // The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a man’s drunkenness did not render his attempted shootings of a woman accidental and therefore did not trigger coverage under either his homeowners policy or his...
Dec 18 2009 // A new portion of the New Hampshire building codes will require that sprinkler systems be installed in all new homes.WMUR-TV said the New Hampshire State Building Code Review Board voted to require sprinklers in every newly...
Dec 16 2009 // New York officials recently directed State Farm Insurance Co. to give 113 Long Island property owners the opportunity to renew their homeowners’ policies with the company.The action came as the result of a complaint...
Dec 9 2009 // The Louisiana Recovery Authority is urging homeowners who suspect they might have contaminated Chinese drywall in their homes to report the problems to the state.A federal consumer product safety commission is asking each...
Dec 8 2009 // NIP Programs, a division of NIP Group, Inc., has a new specialty insurance program designed to serve the funeral industry nationwide.The new program is called FuneralPro and covers property, business autos like limos and...
Dec 7 2009 // That fraudulent insurance claims related to a severe hailstorm that hit the city of El Paso, Texas, on Sept. 16 are on the rise comes as no surprise to Ray Niblett.Niblett, an investigator for the National Insurance Crime...
Dec 6 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has approved rates hikes for about 330,000 of Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s so-called high-risk coastal property accounts. The statewide average increases include a...
Dec 1 2009 // Foremost Insurance Group announced it is expanding its dwelling fire program in Montana, Nebraska and Tennessee, effective Dec. 1, 2009.Typically known as the solution for hard-to-place landlord and owner-occupied...
Nov 24 2009 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon says homeowners whose properties are contaminated with defective Chinese drywall and who have been covered for more than three years by their homeowners insurer have the...
Nov 22 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has approved rates hikes for about 330,000 of Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s so-called high-risk coastal property accounts. The statewide average increases include a...