All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Aug 2 2007 // Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has signed legislation restricting the use of credit information in setting auto and homeowner insurance rates, making Delaware’s credit scoring law one of the toughest in the country...
Aug 1 2007 // Rental housing programs for storm-damaged south Louisiana won’t rebuild as many rental units as state officials had hoped because of skyrocketing construction and insurance costs, a Louisiana Recovery Authority...
Jul 31 2007 // A wildfire that started in eastern Michigan’s Huron National Forest and spread across 500 acres forced the evacuation of 100 residents and damaged at least three homes, police said July 30. State police Sgt. Tim...
Jul 27 2007 // Fire crews in northwest Montana worked to keep a fast-moving wildfire from destroying homes Wednesday, as officials near here asked residents near the Meriwether fire to leave their seasonal homes.The 3,000-acre Garceau...
Jul 25 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...
Jul 24 2007 // Policyholders who settled Hurricane Katrina lawsuits confidentially with insurance companies can keep those payments, along with federal grants for structural damage other homeowners were ineligible to receive or must...
Jul 23 2007 // The state will deny a planned home insurance rate increase by Florida Farm Bureau’s two property insurance companies, which have about 140,000 homeowners policies, the Office for Insurance Regulation said.Florida...
Jul 23 2007 // State Farm Insurance, Florida’s largest private home insurer, said it will drop about 50,000 homeowners policies next year in what it considers risky areas along the coast.Most of the homes and condos that will lose...
Jul 23 2007 // Tahoe Fire losses could reach $150 million, victims may be underinsuredInsured loss estimates for the Angora Fire that burned south Lake Tahoe have been upped to $100 million to $150 million, according to Risk Management...
Jul 23 2007 // Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna and the Office of the State Fire Marshal are warning Washington apartment homes and hotels that their fire sprinkler systems may be defective.The Washington State Fire...
Jul 23 2007 // Fireman’s Fund launches Bay Area wildfire readiness programTo kick off Fireman’s Fund wildfire readiness program, firefighters from the Marin County, Calif., Fire Department ignited a controlled fire on the...
Jul 20 2007 // Policyholders who settled Hurricane Katrina lawsuits confidentially with insurance companies can keep those payments, along with federal grants for structural damage other homeowners were ineligible to receive or must...
Jul 20 2007 // Wildfires burned homes and forced the evacuations of villages, a convent and a children’s summer camp in southern Greece, authorities said July 19.The Fire Service reported 115 fires in 24 hours as temperatures...
Jul 20 2007 // California firefighters have been working to stop a 28,346-acre wildfire from spreading in rugged Central Coast wilderness and posing a threat to rural homes, while rain aided the battle against an 8,250-acre forest fire...
Jul 18 2007 // Farmers Insurance will revise its plan for an increase in homeowners rates because Texas regulators indicated they would turn down its initial proposal, officials said.Farmers, the third largest home insurer in Texas,...