All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 1 2006 // As state lawmakers enter the home stretch of the 2006 legislative session, Tom Gallagher, Florida’s CFO, renewed his call for immediate rate-relief, improved access to property coverage and reforms to help strengthen...
Apr 28 2006 // Lawmakers in Louisiana next week are expected to vote on Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s $7.5 billion housing plans, after several provisions were altered to make the post-hurricane rebuilding and buyout program more...
Apr 27 2006 // The Florida House Insurance Committee and the House Fiscal Council have approved CS/CS/HB 7225, and according to the Florida Insurance Council, the next stop is the full House. FIC released a side-by-side comparison of...
Apr 27 2006 // Reliable estimates reveal that between 50 to 70 percent homeowners do not have enough insurance to rebuild their homes in the event it is completely destroyed, according to a Texas-based insurance industry trade...
Apr 25 2006 // A bill authored by Senator Susan Paddack, an Ada Democrat, that will give Oklahoma families a tax credit for rebuilding their homes that were destroyed or damaged by the recent wildfires won the approval of the full Senate...
Apr 24 2006 // Florida insurance officials confirmed that complaints filed recently against troubled Poe Financial Group came from people who said their policies were dropped before their homes were repaired.A condominium association in...
Apr 24 2006 // The Republic Group, based in Dallas, has introduced a new Homeowners Form 3 product for Texas homeowners.“We are pleased to announce the introduction of our HO-3 product”, stated Parker Rush, Republic’s...
Apr 21 2006 // Florida’s Consumer Services representatives held a meeting on Friday morning with officials of the Tampa, Fla.-based Poe Insurance Group to discuss how to reduce the number of consumer complaints about the firm and...
Apr 20 2006 // Two judges have ruled that Allstate Insurance charges excessive rates for homeowners insurance and should reduce them.State insurance regulators want the company to reduce its homeowners rates by 10 percent and refund its...
Apr 20 2006 // Louisiana’s second-largest insurer has received permission to boost homeowners’ rates an average of 20.6 percent for nearly half its customers, while the remainder will see rates rise an average of 9...
Apr 20 2006 // When the House and Senate appropriation committees set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to provide insurance rate relief for Florida homeowners, both the consumer and the insurance industry scored a victory, according...
Apr 19 2006 // Nearly $1 billion in state tax dollars would go to offset the deficit faced by Citizens Property Insurance under an amendment approved in Tallahassee, Fla. by a House panel that would help out Florida homeowners who are...
Apr 17 2006 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has sharply criticized insurers’ denial of Hurricane Katrina claims in Mississippi, saying companies are “in lockstep like Nazis locking arms, coming at those people down...
Apr 17 2006 // The Florida General Revenue Estimating Conference has released new estimates stating Florida is expected to receive an additional $960 million in unanticipated revenue this year and the next. This estimate is in addition...
Apr 17 2006 // Mississippi Insurance Com-missioner George Dale has expanded the Hurricane Katrina mediation program for homeowners.Dale said that the administrators of the program, the American Arbitration Associa-tion, will increase the...
Apr 17 2006 // However, insurer trade group says it can be found by those who shopAfter the wreckage caused by last year’s Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, many home insurers in southern Louisiana are refusing to write new policies, or...
Apr 17 2006 // TSLA’S PATTERSON 25 years but who’s counting? CHALLENGING WIND DATA Critics say modelers need oversight
Apr 17 2006 // Insurers well-braced for next big California earthquakeWhen the next big earthquake strikes California, it’s unlikely to hurt the insurance industry as much as the last one did. The nation’s largest property...
Apr 14 2006 // New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the largest regional writer of homeowners insurance in New York State, has announced that it is reducing rates on homeowners policies by an average of 10 percent statewide...
Apr 14 2006 // Romania will introduce a mandatory insurance policy for all home owners, according to a government official in Bucharest.Interior Minister Vasile Blaga said the insurance would cost about 20 euros (US$24) per year, with...