All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 30 2009 // Federal investigators have been unable to prove a definite link between imported Chinese drywall and home damage and health issues. But they aren’t done investigating.The Consumer Product Safety Commission said that...
Oct 30 2009 // Florida’s state-backed and largest property insurer will be allowed to raise its rates for homeowners an average 5.4 percent in 2010.The increase is the first one allowed since lawmakers froze the rates of Citizens...
Oct 29 2009 // Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.-based 21st Century Holding Co. said its board of directors has unanimously rejected an unsolicited buyout proposal by Florida-only insurer Homeowners Choice, Inc., which sought to acquire all...
Oct 27 2009 // China is helping American officials investigate reports of contaminated Chinese drywall after thousands of American homeowners complained the building material made them sick or damaged their houses, a top U.S. safety...
Oct 23 2009 // Florida’s state-backed property insurer has taken a second look at a home with corrosion from defective Chinese drywall and decided to renew its homeowners’ insurance policy on the house after all.Citizens...
Oct 22 2009 // Florida insurance regulators are failing in their duties if they don’t make the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. raise property insurance rates by 10 percent across the board, a business group lobbyist...
Oct 22 2009 // Universal Property and Casualty Insurance Co. (UPCIC) reports it has received approval for a premium rate increase for its homeowners program in Florida. The premium rate increase, which will average approximately 14.6...
Oct 19 2009 // Nationwide Insurance Co. of Florida plans to reduce its personal lines property exposure in the state of Florida by nonrenewing 60,000 homeowners policies across the state.Nationwide said that Tower Hill Group, a Florida...
Oct 19 2009 // In a 9-0 decision, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that so-called “all-risk home insurance policies may cover wind damage from hurricanes, even in situations where the loss is later exacerbated by water from...
Oct 19 2009 // For the first time in five years, customers are significantly happier with their homeowners insurer than they were in the past, according to market research firm J.D. Power and Associates 2009.In its survey, the National...
Oct 16 2009 // James and Maria Ivory’s dreams of a relaxing retirement on Florida’s Gulf Coast were put on hold when they discovered their new home had been built with Chinese drywall that emits sulfuric fumes and corrodes...
Oct 16 2009 // Foremost Insurance Group has expanded its Dwelling Fire program in Kansas effective Oct. 15, 2009. The company said it will write a broad spectrum of landlord and rental coverages, with lower rates and new, larger...
Oct 15 2009 // Homeowners Choice, Inc., a Florida-only homeowners insurance company founded in 2006, has sent a letter to the board of directors of 21st Century Holding Co. proposing a merger between the two companies.In an Oct. 12...
Oct 15 2009 // Three Virginia lawmakers are asking lenders to help homeowners whose homes were built with suspect drywall imported from China. U.S. Sen. Mark Warner and Congressmen Bobby Scott and Glenn Nye Reps issued their appeal...
Oct 14 2009 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that its 2009 online auto and homeowners rate comparison guides are now available for viewing on the Department of Insurance Web site at www.ldi.state.la.us.“The rate...
Oct 13 2009 // Leon County Circuit Court Judge John C. Cooper has granted a request by state insurance officials to place American Keystone Insurance Co. in Ponte Vedra Beach into state receivership to be liquidated.American Keystone...
Oct 12 2009 // With the first big rain storm of the year bearing down on Northern California, the California Department of Insurance has put out an advisory to the public to check their homeowners insurance and to look into whether they...
Oct 9 2009 // In a 9-0 decision, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that so-called “all-risk” home insurance policies may cover wind damage from hurricanes, even in situations where the loss is later exacerbated by...
Oct 9 2009 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is calling for unannounced inspections of nursing homes and revised criminal histories of identified offenders living in the facilities.Madigan’s sent a letter on Oct. 7 to the...
Oct 8 2009 // Nationwide Insurance Co. of Florida plans to reduce its personal lines property exposure in the state of Florida by nonrenewing 60,000 homeowners policies across the state.Nationwide said that Tower Hill Group, a Florida...