All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 13 2007 // Seattle-based Safeco has announced it will be cutting rates for California homeowners in 2007 an average of 20 percent. The move is expected to affect some 200,000 Safeco home and business customers in California,...
Feb 13 2007 // The first trial for one of the several thousand lawsuits that Louisiana homeowners filed against their insurers in federal court after Hurricane Katrina began Feb. 12 with the jury selection and opening statements.In their...
Feb 12 2007 // As we are well aware, flooding caused by hurricanes and tropical storms can wreak havoc along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast from June through November. What many fail to realize, however, is that flood risk is not...
Feb 12 2007 // 122 The number of levees nationwide that are at risk for failing, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Twenty-seven states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico had threatened levees, but only two had more than a...
Feb 12 2007 // One-on-one interviews with 15 insurance regulators At a recent meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Insurance Journal sat down with 15 insurance regulators to talk about issues affecting their...
Feb 11 2007 // 122The number of levees nationwide that are at risk for failing, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Twenty-seven states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico had threatened levees, but only two had more than a...
Feb 8 2007 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) today announced the release of the 2004 Homeowners Insurance Report, which provides data on market distribution and average cost by policy form and amount of...
Feb 1 2007 // In response to a recent pending settlement involving State Farm Insurance, certain victims of Hurricane Katrina and the State of Mississippi, USAA or United Services Automobile Association, came forward to define what it...
Jan 31 2007 // More than 16 months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced an unprecedented exodus from the Louisiana Gulf Coast, tens of thousands of homeowners have decided not to rebuild or have yet to make up their minds, an...
Jan 31 2007 // Allstate Corp., the second-biggest U.S. personal-lines insurer behind State Farm, said its fourth-quarter profit rose 17 percent as it continued to benefit from a benign year for hurricanes.The $1.21 billion (euro930...
Jan 29 2007 // Legislators rolled up their sleeves, ripped off their ties and unbuttoned their collars as a special legislative session on property insurance came to a head in Florida.After six days of conferring, negotiating and...
Jan 29 2007 // Insurer then settles next case without going to trial; U.S. Rep. Taylor calls for Congressional probe of industry claims practicesIn a Hurricane Katrina claims decision watched closely by the insurance industry, a federal...
Jan 29 2007 // Texas may no longer have the highest homeowner insurance rates in the country, according to the Insurance Council of Texas. For the second year in a row, both homeowners and automobile insurance premiums in Texas have...
Jan 29 2007 // A developer’s preliminary plans for jailed insurance executive Michael Segal’s estate include building 11 new residences and turning the coach house into two homes.Lincolnshire, Ill.-based Orren Pickell...
Jan 29 2007 // Louisiana’s state-run insurer won approval for big rate increases on Jan. 17, 2007, meaning double- and triple-digit hikes in insurance costs for homeowners and businesses along the coast.The increases for Citizens...
Jan 29 2007 // Homeowners who witnessed the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina seem to have boosted flood insurance sales dramatically in 2006, and federal government actions also might force others to purchase flood coverage, as...
Jan 28 2007 // In a Hurricane Katrina claims decision watched closely by the insurance industry, a federal judge in Mississippi ruled that State Farm failed to properly settle a claim involving both wind and water damage from Hurricane...
Jan 28 2007 // R.I. lawmakers study ways to assist coastal homeownersA group of Rhode Island legislators examining insurance companies’ recent changes to homeowners’ policies for coastal areas met recently at the University...
Jan 28 2007 // Legislators rolled up their sleeves, ripped off their ties and unbuttoned their collars as a special legislative session on property insurance came to a head in Florida.After six days of conferring, negotiating and...
Jan 28 2007 // Louisiana’s state-run insurer won approval for big rate increases on Jan. 17, 2007, meaning double- and triple-digit hikes in insurance costs for homeowners and businesses along the coast.The increases for Citizens...