All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 29 2007 // Insurance companies in New York may not refuse to renew homeowners insurance policies based on whether a policyholder has other business such as an auto or life policy with them, under a new order from the state insurance...
Aug 27 2007 // Quaker Special Risk of Eatontown, New Jersey launched of a new homeowners policy coverage enhancement. The “Protecting Your Family” option provides medical expense, miscellaneous expense and reward payment...
Aug 27 2007 // Allstate will raise its homeowners’ insurance rates despite a state order not to and a request by the state’s consumer advocate to fine the company for each policy it renews at the new rate.“We continue...
Aug 24 2007 // More than 1,000 people were flooded out of their homes after heavy rain that swamped communities across the American Midwest sent Ohio’s rivers spilling over their banks, the governor said. The storm’s death...
Aug 24 2007 // Idaho’s Sun Valley Insurance is doing everything it can to keep claims at bay during wildfire season — including sending in a firetruck to cover million-dollar homes threatened by a wildfire outside the central...
Aug 22 2007 // Hoping to get a clearer picture of who’s benefiting from Mississippi’s post-Hurricane Katrina housing grants, a coalition of advocacy groups has filed public records requests with the agency administering the...
Aug 21 2007 // An Ohio woman who set her neighbors’ homes on fire because she was upset with their behavior and loud music was sentenced to four years in prison.Johanna Morrison, 50, has mental health problems and didn’t...
Aug 21 2007 // Two homes were destroyed by a wind-whipped wildfire that forced the evacuation of a 350-home subdivision east of Billings, Mont., authorities said.The fire, estimated at 1,000 acres and growing Monday morning, destroyed...
Aug 20 2007 // Two years after Hurricane Katrina struck, more than 1,000 storm victims in parts of Alabama’s rural south Mobile County are still waiting for housing funds to get out of trailers or damaged, patched-over...
Aug 20 2007 // $40.6 billion paid on 1.7 million insurance claimsTwo years after Hurricane Katrina struck, the “overwhelming majority of claims” in Gulf Coast states from her destruction have been settled in what has been the...
Aug 20 2007 // Two years after Hurricane Katrina struck, the “overwhelming majority of claims” in Gulf Coast states from her destruction have been settled in what has been the single largest loss — $40.6 billion —...
Aug 15 2007 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that beginning Aug. 15, 2007, State Farm will resume writing new homeowners insurance policies in Louisiana’s coastal parishes on a limited basis for...
Aug 13 2007 // In its application for certificate of authority filed with the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, Orlando-based Olympus Insurance Co. disclosed $50 million in start-up capital.The OIR issued a certificate of authority...
Aug 9 2007 // Kemper announced it has introduced INFINITY, an enhanced homeowners program designed for homes in Texas valued from $400,000 to $1.5 million.According to the company’s announcement, INFINITY features three primary...
Aug 7 2007 // Two years later, the “overwhelming majority of claims” in Gulf Coast states from Hurricane Katrina have been settled in what has been the single largest loss — $40.6 billion — in the history of the...
Aug 6 2007 // Hurricane Katrina has nearly knocked the wind out of George Dale’s re-election campaign for Mississippi insurance commissioner, a job he’s held for 32 years.Dale is the longest-serving state insurance...
Aug 6 2007 // Texas regulators indicated they would turn down a proposal by Farmers Insurance for a 6.6 percent statewide increase in homeowners rates, so in late July 2007, the company said it will revise its plan. Ben Gonzales, a...
Aug 6 2007 // In Miss. primary, incumbent Dale faces Katrina, Scruggs and fellow DemsHurricane Katrina has nearly knocked the wind out of George Dale’s reelection campaign for Mississippi insurance commissioner, a job he’s...
Aug 6 2007 // More than half of Florida’s 800,000 mobile homes are no longer covered by homeowner’s insurance — another sign of the state’s soaring insurance costs.The number of insured Florida mobile homes...
Aug 3 2007 // The mailed forms aren’t all in yet. But nearly 9,000 homeowners filed last-day applications for the state’s Road Home hurricane repair and buyout program by phone, online and in person, bringing the total to...