All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 15 2006 // Florida has begun My Safe Florida Home program, a $250 million mitigation program to help Floridians strengthen their homes against hurricanes and to reduce property losses.Tom Gallagher, Florida’s chief financial...
Aug 15 2006 // In a highly anticipated ruling in one of the first wind vs. water insurance claims arising out of Hurricane Katrina, a Mississippi judge has upheld the exclusion for damage caused by water and water-borne materials in an...
Aug 14 2006 // USAA Casualty, which primarily insures military personnel and their families, has asked the state to increase its homeowner and condominium premiums by an average of 40 percent.The company made the request last Friday to...
Aug 14 2006 // Judy Dutruch has long questioned why her insurance company refused to send an engineer to investigate Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of her Diamondhead home on Aug. 29, 2005, before denying her claim.Batesville...
Aug 14 2006 // Louisiana’s The Road Home program achieved a critical milestone in the program’s initial phase with the registration of more than 100,000 homeowners, the governor’s office reported.This figure well...
Aug 14 2006 // Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon says nearly all of Louisiana’s homeowners insurance companies, including State Farm and Allstate, have complied with his order to extend the prescriptive period for policyholders...
Aug 9 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has issued a bulletin to property insurance companies telling them to better inform property owners of the option of coverage from the residual market, the FAIR Plan.The bulletin...
Aug 9 2006 // State Farm announced Tuesday in Charleston, W.Va. it is lowering homeowners insurance rates in West Virginia by an average of 5 percent starting in December.It marked the first time since 1989 that State Farm has won...
Aug 7 2006 // Michigan Insurance Director of Insurance Linda Watters wants to make sure drivers in urban areas get a fair shake on the premiums they pay for auto and homeowners insurance. She has developed an initiative that would...
Aug 7 2006 // Some 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the situation seems to be not as dire as previously...
Aug 7 2006 // Florida, Mississippi and South Carolina now rank as three of the top five states in the nation in flood insurance policy growth according to data released by the National Flood Insurance Program and FloodSmart.In order,...
Aug 7 2006 // Florida’s Department of Financial Services is working out the details of a program offering grants of up to $5,000 to homeowners who take steps to mitigate hurricane damages.Individual matching grants of up to $5,000...
Aug 7 2006 // Some 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the situation seems to be not as dire as previously...
Aug 7 2006 // With 68,775 blazes already this year, the 2006 wildfire season is well on its way to becoming the worst in 10 years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Its data shows 5.03 million acres have burned,...
Aug 7 2006 // Companies step up to take Texas Select policyholdersSome 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the...
Aug 7 2006 // With 68,775 blazes already this year, the 2006 wildfire season is well on its way to becoming the worst in 10 years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Its data shows 5.03 million acres have burned,...
Aug 7 2006 // News CurrentsSome 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the situation seems to be not as dire as...
Aug 4 2006 // Fairfield, Calif.-based GeoVera Holdings Inc., which entered the Texas homeowners market in April 2006, announced they are actively working with Texas producers to secure replacement coverage for policyholders insured with...
Aug 4 2006 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Louisiana’s state-run insurance company, could provide wind damage coverage for about 30,000 homeowners along the coast if Allstate Insurance Co. drops that coverage,...
Aug 4 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has issued a statement announcing his intention to review and consider approval of an average 22 percent decrease in homeowners insurance rates for policyholders of United...