All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 12 2007 // Homeowners insurance rates for many in Massachusetts insured through the state’s secondary market insurer, the FAIR Plan, would drop 18 percent if Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley gets her...
Oct 12 2007 // The federal government is considering buying out as many as 17,000 homes along the Mississippi coast and remaking the land into a vast hurricane-protection zone, raising anxieties that it could destroy the waterfront lives...
Oct 11 2007 // New York lawmakers are considering taking action to improve coastal insurance availability while insurance agents are telling them they fear market restrictions are worsening.Insurance companies, meanwhile, claim the...
Oct 10 2007 // The four major candidates for Louisiana governor have a range of different ideas for eliminating a persistent obstacle to south Louisiana’s hurricane recovery: high homeowners insurance rates.Walter Boasso and Bobby...
Oct 9 2007 // Home Insurance Buyers Guide LLC launched a searchable database where homeowners can find private insurance companies still writing new homeowner insurance business in Florida.The launch of the Web site at...
Oct 9 2007 // Two administrative law judges in Texas rejected State Farm’s plan to increase homeowner insurance rates, calling the hike too excessive in a proposed decision issued Oct. 5.State Farm Lloyds Inc. had appealed to the...
Oct 8 2007 // More people are building homes in hazardous fire areas of the Sierra Nevada — increasing firefighting costs, according to a two-year study released by a conservation group. The Sierra Nevada is primarily in eastern...
Oct 8 2007 // A major hurricane making landfall in Massachusetts could cause billions of dollars worth of property damage while also severely straining the resources of the state’s residual homeowners’ insurance market, the...
Oct 8 2007 // Mass. warned on coastal development and insuranceA major hurricane making landfall in Massachusetts could cause billions of dollars worth of property damage while also severely straining the resources of the state’s...
Oct 8 2007 // More people are building homes in hazardous fire areas of the Sierra Nevada — increasing firefighting costs, according to a two-year study released by a conservation group. The Sierra Nevada is primarily in eastern...
Oct 3 2007 // A vast majority of Californians consider it their responsibility to keep their insurance current, but don’t bother to read their homeowners policies each year, a new study has found.More than two-thirds of those...
Oct 2 2007 // Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance Company of America announced it is cutting homeowners insurance rates in California an average of 9.4 percent. The decrease takes effect today, Oct. 2, 2007. Nationwide is also...
Sep 28 2007 // Property insurers in Louisiana should continue mediating outstanding claims of homeowners who sustained damages in Hurricane Katrina and pay the costs of the sessions, although they are not legally obligated to do so,...
Sep 28 2007 // The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure updating the nation’s flood insurance program that will give homeowners the option of purchasing windstorm coverage as part of their flood policy.The legislation...
Sep 26 2007 // A train derailment in Flomaton, Ala., over the weekend caused some anxiety and evacuations after authorities learned that the 66-car train was carrying anhydrous ammonia.The derailment that occurred after 9 p.m. on Sept....
Sep 24 2007 // The California Department of Insurance has announced that Chubb Group of Insurance Companies is implementing a 18.4 percent homeowners insurance rate reduction that is expected to save Californians approximately $14.5...
Sep 24 2007 // Protesters gathered on the steps of the old Florida Capitol to protest the high cost of property insurance rates in January in Tallahassee. The Legislature was in special session to pass homeowners insurance legislation....
Sep 24 2007 // The Supreme Court also disagreed with the district court’s common sense ruling that faulty workmanship that damages the property of a third party is a covered “occurrence,” whereas faulty workmanship that...
Sep 21 2007 // More people are building homes in hazardous fire areas of the Sierra Nevada — increasing firefighting costs, according to a two-year study released by a conservation group. The Sierra Nevada is primarily in eastern...
Sep 20 2007 // A major hurricane making landfall in Massachusetts could cause billions of dollars worth of property damage while also severely straining the resources of the state’s residual homeowners’ insurance market, the...