All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 22 2006 // In a move it says will “help protect its ability to meet future customer needs throughout Texas while maintaining a strong presence along the Texas coast,” Allstate Texas Llloyds announced it will phase out...
May 19 2006 // Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc. in Rocklin, Calif., is offering Homeowners coverage in Arizona. The program includes high risk properties, seasonal homes, brush areas, protection classes 1-10, older homes and...
May 18 2006 // The Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission has approved rate increases of less than 19 percent for three homeowner insurance companies.The largest of the increases, an 18.7 percent increase for 13,461 policyholders, went to...
May 18 2006 // Receding flood waters revealed deep economic damage that hit a broad range of New Englanders — from homeowners who must dry out soggy carpets and replace rotted beams without help from flood insurance, to shopkeepers and...
May 16 2006 // Many Texas homeowners are under the impression that flooding caused by rising water is covered under the standard homeowners insurance policy in Texas and often they discover that fact too late, according to Sandra Ray,...
May 15 2006 // St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Allstate Floridian has reached an agreement with Royal Palm Insurance Co., a new property insurer in the state, to offer Allstate Floridian customers and Florida consumers property insurance...
May 15 2006 // State Farm Insurance Co. is seeking to boost premiums by an average of about 70 percent in Florida, the company said Friday. If approved by state regulators, the increase would be effective Aug. 15.The Bloomington,...
May 11 2006 // A lawsuit filed by more than 650 Gulf Coast homeowners accuses State Farm Insurance Co. of using a “one-size-fits-all” engineering report as the basis for refusing to cover damage to homes destroyed by...
May 10 2006 // A private jet is waiting for Richard Scruggs, but first the millionaire lawyer wants to squeeze in a quick lunch. Smiles and nods greet him as he walks into Lu-Cher Doe’s Diner, a soul food restaurant down the street...
May 8 2006 // Claims by Massachusetts regulators that the combined surplus of the insurers serving the state’s homeowners market is inadequate and that changing the auto system will help boost the homeowners market are untrue,...
May 8 2006 // Tenant’s PolicyMinges Creek, LLC v. Royal Insurance Company of America (6th Cir. [Mich.] April 6, 2006)Ruling: Mall owner was not entitled to additional insured status on mall tenant’s policy for accident...
May 8 2006 // The number of bills filed by members of the Louisiana Legislature for the regular session that began March 27 was relatively low, according to the Tatman Group’s David Tatman, a lobbyist for the Louisiana Surplus...
May 8 2006 // Leon County, Fla. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bateman has ordered Southern Family Insurance Co., one of three financially-troubled property insurers of the Tampa-based Poe Financial Group into rehabilitation.To ensure the...
May 8 2006 // Claims by Massachusetts regulators that the combined surplus of the insurers serving the state’s homeowners market is inadequate and that changing the auto system will help boost the homeowners market are untrue,...
May 8 2006 // Tenant’s PolicyMinges Creek, LLC v. Royal Insurance Company of America (6th Cir. [Mich.] April 6, 2006) Ruling: Mall owner was not entitled to additional insured status on mall tenant’s policy for accident...
May 8 2006 // Leon County, Fla. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bateman has ordered Southern Family Insurance Co., one of three financially-troubled property insurers of the Tampa-based Poe Financial Group into rehabilitation.To ensure the...
May 8 2006 // The number of bills filed by members of the Louisiana Legislature for the regular session that began March 27 was relatively low, according to the Tatman Group’s David Tatman, a lobbyist for the Louisiana Surplus...
May 5 2006 // A man who allegedly posed as an insurance adjuster to bilk at least one hurricane victim in New Orleans, La., has been arrested.Steven Lee Cylka, 31, of Metairie was jailed in lieu of $20,500 bond after he was booked with...
May 3 2006 // A decrease in the rates charged to consumers living in Kentucky counties that participate in the Kentucky Mine Subsidence Insurance Fund has been announced by the Kentucky Office of Insurance in Frankfort, Ky. Due to this...
May 3 2006 // With hurricane season looming just one month away, the Florida House has passed a bill aimed at making sure that if Florida has another bad run of storms there will be insurance companies there to cover people’s...