All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 7 2007 // A New Hampshire couple sued for negligence after their son molested children they were babysitting does not have coverage under their homeowners policy that has a sexual molestation exclusion, the New Hampshire Supreme...
Nov 7 2007 // Senators Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Bill Nelson, D-Fla., have introduced the Homeowners’ Defense Act of 2007 to address the growing problem of the availability and affordability of natural disaster insurance, a...
Nov 4 2007 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes has taken on the minefield of private passenger auto insurance, overseeing a transition from a highly-regulated rating system to one under which insurance companies are to...
Nov 4 2007 // 10 Mass. caps auto hikes at 10%Because the shooter was in an uninsured car, says N.J. court 12 Driving the transitionAn interview with Mass. Commissioner BurnesN1 Survey reports drop in new lawsuitsActions filed against...
Nov 4 2007 // Groups aim to prevent fire losses during height of wildfire season10 Hawaii approves 19.3% workers’ comp decrease NCCI recommended 16.8 percent drop10 Calif. approves AAA’s 6.5% auto rate reductionCarrier...
Nov 4 2007 // Homeowners insurance policyholders who subscribe to at least one additional policy with their insurer tend to be more satisfied than those who only have a homeowners insurance policy, according to the J.D. Power and...
Nov 4 2007 // The countrywide prospective return on equity for the homeowners line of insurance for 2007 is 7.0 percent, up from 5.4 percent in 2006, according to an analysis by Aon Re Global, a unit of Aon Corp. The year-over-year...
Nov 4 2007 // ($ in millions)Company Name Written Premium Market Share 1 State Farm (Ill.) 1,436.03 21.78%2 Zurich Ins. Group (Farmers Ins. Group) 1,118.12 16.96%3 Allstate Ins. Group 887.88 13.47%4 California State Auto...
Nov 4 2007 // Catastrophic wildfires sweep across Southern CaliforniaIndustry estimates insured losses at more than $1.5 billion and rising Insured losses are continuing to accumulate from Southern California wildfires that burned in...
Nov 4 2007 // Natural catastrophes — and the affordability and availability of property insurance in disaster-prone areas — have been on center stage in coastal states from the Northeast to the Gulf Coast. This fall, the...
Nov 1 2007 // Some 3,305 coastal residents in New York whose homeowners insurance policies had not been renewed by Liberty Mutual partly because they did not have other policies with the company – such as life or automobile...
Oct 30 2007 // Nearly six months after expanding statewide, the My Safe Florida Home (MSFH) program is increasing standards for participating wind inspection firms, in a continued effort to improve the quality of inspections provided for...
Oct 29 2007 // Fourteen South Carolina homeowners received grants of up to $5,000 each to help strengthen their homes against the high winds associated with hurricanes and other natural disasters.The S.C. Safe Home Grant Program was...
Oct 29 2007 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation signed Consent Orders allowing four companies to assume a total of 173,000 policies from the Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state’s insurer of last resort.American...
Oct 26 2007 // The panel in charge of a federally funded buyout of homes located within the Tar Creek Superfund Site in Oklahoma has stopped making offers to homeowners because of a lack of funding, an official said.The Lead-Impacted...
Oct 25 2007 // Insured losses from wildfires continuing to spread in Southern California could likely become the costliest catastrophe insured loss event in 2007 and may potentially become the costliest wildfire catastrophe insured loss...
Oct 24 2007 // The countrywide prospective return on equity for the homeowners line of insurance for 2007 is 7.0 percent, up from 5.4 percent in 2006, according to an analysis by Aon Re Global, a unit of Aon Corp. The year-over-year...
Oct 24 2007 // The wildfires burning out of control in Southern California should sound an alarm for homeowners to prepare for disasters before they strike. Homeowners need to have an evacuation plan in place and make sure they have...
Oct 23 2007 // Mich.-based North Pointe Holdings Corp. announced Monday that it has signed an agreement for the sale of its Home Pointe Insurance Co. subsidiary, which comprises North Pointe’s Florida homeowners and dwelling fire...
Oct 23 2007 // After a wildfire, people usually have questions about the coverage provided by a typical homeowners or auto insurance policy. The Insurance Information Network of California offers answers to some of these basic...