All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 9 2008 // An airplane that was scheduled to land at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego crashed on Monday, Dec. 8, killing at least three people and destroying two homes. According to local news reports, the pilot...
Dec 5 2008 // North Carolina homeowners insurers are seeking an average 19.5 percent statewide rate hike which, if approved, would be the first rate hike since 2006.The proposal, being finalized this week by the North Carolina Rate...
Dec 5 2008 // District of Columbia Insurance Commissioner Thomas E. Hampton of is warning residents wanting to cash in on the Presidential Inauguration festivities by renting their homes, that they may not have full insurance...
Dec 3 2008 // Property/casualty insurers are urging North Carolina officials to impose surcharges on policies in the state’s residual market property insurer, the Beach Plan, and take other financing and mitigation steps to...
Dec 2 2008 // The days leading up to the inauguration of Barack Obama could be an economic windfall for residential property owners in and around D.C.Washington Post staff writer David Nakamura reports that droves of people are looking...
Dec 2 2008 // Risk Specialists Companies, Inc. (RSC), a subsidiary of AIG Commercial Insurance, is introducing what it says is a first in the U.S.: a homeowners insurance product that is compliant with key Islamic finance tenets and...
Dec 2 2008 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced revised 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...
Dec 2 2008 // Las Cruces, N.M., homeowners should save money on insurance now that the city’s flood rating has improved because of its efforts to mitigate the potential for flooding. City administrators learned from the Federal...
Nov 30 2008 // Industry analysts are predicting insured losses from the Freeway Complex, Sayre and Tea Fires that burned Southern California in mid-November will range from $600 million to $800 million. Comparatively, those losses are...
Nov 30 2008 // Generally, the statute of limitations for the breach of an oral agreement is four years. However, a shorter period is mandated by California Insurance Code Section 2071 for all policies containing fire coverage (which...
Nov 30 2008 // New York’s Department of Insurance has this advice for insurers in the Empire State: Stop canceling homeowners’ policies simply because a house in unoccupied.That announcement came in the form a circular letter...
Nov 24 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has approved homeowners insurance rate increases for State Farm and Farmers, increasing premiums by a combined $115 million.State Farm customers will soon face an average 6.9...
Nov 21 2008 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has asked the Division of Insurance to initiate an administrative rate proceeding to review the new auto insurance rates of Premier Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Travelers...
Nov 20 2008 // New York Department of Insurance has this advice for insurers in the Empire State: Stop canceling homeowners’ policies simply because a house in unoccupied.That announcement came in the form a circular letter –...
Nov 19 2008 // In four states along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, Habitat for Humanity came with a mission to build hundreds of homes during a spring blitz so people pushed into poverty after Katrina would have the chance to own a...
Nov 18 2008 // As firefighters work to contain the Tea, Sayre, and Freeway Complex fires throughout Southern California, property/casualty insurance companies are on the ground reaching out to policyholders to facilitate immediate...
Nov 18 2008 // In response to the fires burning in Southern California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared states of emergencies in Orange, Riverside, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties.Meanwhile, the Governor indicated during a...
Nov 17 2008 // Mildred Hull and her husband, Stanley, were in their mobile home near Oklahoma 19 when a 20-inch natural gas pipeline exploded about 3 a.m. Nov. 14, destroying the couple’s home and two others, authorities...
Nov 17 2008 // The skies are filled with smoke, and thousands of homeowners being evacuated from their homes in Southern California. It has been a weekend of devastation with the fires still ablaze. Our Saturday night’s plans...
Nov 16 2008 // Arizona voters overwhelming rejected Proposition 201, dubbed the Homeowners Bill of Rights. Approximately 1.34 million people, or 77.9 percent, voted no on the measure, while 386,281 voted yes.If it had passed, the...