All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 4 2008 // Florida-based Foremost Insurance Group of companies filed a 72.9 percent increase on mobile homeowners’ insurance rates, according to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.The group’s companies, including...
Feb 28 2008 // Mississippi officials said Tuesday that homeowners with elevated structures who lived inside the federally designated flood zone when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005 may still qualify for housing assistance.Jon Mabry,...
Feb 28 2008 // Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, recently announced the introduction of its new personal lines product offering in Ohio, including enhanced rating capabilities via Personal IQ, the...
Feb 28 2008 // The new managed competition auto insurance system being implemented in Massachusetts rewards many bad drivers and penalizes many good drivers based on certain supposedly-prohibited social factors, according to the latest...
Feb 28 2008 // A California Court of Appeals in the Second Appellate District has held that defendants are entitled to introduce evidence of a nonparty medical professional’s fault in aggravating a plaintiff’s injuries, and...
Feb 26 2008 // That earthquake in eastern Nevada last week may be a bit of a wake-up call for Utah homeowners.According to the Utah Department of Insurance, most homeowners in the state don’t have coverage for earthquakes. Like...
Feb 26 2008 // Lexington Insurance Co., an American International Group company, today announced LexElite Eco-Homeownersm, insurance for homeowners generating their own power using geothermal, solar or wind systems.LexElite Eco-Homeowner...
Feb 25 2008 // The insurance market in Florida is adjusting to changing conditions – some man-made, others resulting from forces of nature – all of which make property insurance for Florida homeowners more available and more...
Feb 22 2008 // Allstate Corp. will restore insurance coverage for hundreds of customers and pay $250,000 to resolve disputes over cancellation of south Louisiana homeowner policies after Hurricane Katrina, the company said this week.The...
Feb 22 2008 // North Carolina firefighters fought a large brush fire Wednesday that damaged a dozen homes in a Charlotte neighborhood.Charlotte Fire Department Capt. Rob Brisley said the fire heavily damaged two of the homes. Brisley...
Feb 15 2008 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) warned that government plans to construct new homes on flood plains have not given sufficient consideration of the hazards involved.Justin Jacobs, the ABI’s Assistant...
Feb 15 2008 // Minnesota’s battle over smoking bans is making its way into private homes, as residents of one high-rise condominium along the Mississippi River have voted to make their building smoke-free.At La Rive Condominiums in...
Feb 14 2008 // A blaze that destroyed several homes in South Carolina and led to the evacuation of 60 others started as a trash fire that was initially doused by two fire agencies, but reignited a day later into a wind-whipped 240-acre...
Feb 13 2008 // Federal officials were mired in political favoritism and miscounted the number of damaged homes in rejecting two Illinois counties’ applications for disaster relief, local Illinios officials said this week.Leaders...
Feb 12 2008 // Wind-whipped wildfires chased churchgoers from worship, forced hundreds of residents to flee homes and closed highways across the rain-starved Carolinas and Virginia on Sunday.Twelve small structures, including at least...
Feb 10 2008 // The last few years have been good ones for the property casualty insurance industry in terms of profitability. But it’s been a long time coming, according to Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information...
Feb 10 2008 // The length of time it takes to repair damages on auto and homeowners insurance claims weighs heavily on customer satisfaction, according to the results of a recent study on claims handling practices. Multiple claims...
Feb 10 2008 // Americans’ houses have increasingly become a hodgepodge between a home and an office. It’s believed that there are more people working out of their homes now than at any time in history. And experts say...
Feb 6 2008 // The Hartford Group, testifying in front of the Florida Senate Select Committee on Property Insurance Accountability Tuesday said they will implement a non-renewal program in Florida beginning in August. The year-long...
Feb 1 2008 // A day after wildfires burned almost 30 square miles across Texas, a few more blazes sprang up Jan. 30 while victims sifted through the charred remnants of their homes.Gary Karr spent the day moving debris from his...