All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 22 2006 // Allstate Insurance Company v. Reid (1st Cir. Nov. 30, 2005)Ruling: Coverage Not Available for Damage to Boat Towed by Insured. Defendant and his friend, May, were returning from a fishing trip. Defendant was towing...
Jan 22 2006 // The record total of homeowners insurance claims payments resulting from the 2005 hurricanes in Louisiana is enough to wipe out all homeowners premiums paid in the state during the past 25 years, as well as every dollar of...
Jan 22 2006 // Fraud RoundupVentura County, Calif., District Attorney Gregory Totten reported that the office’s Consumer and Environmental Protection Division recently obtained two convictions for violation of the California...
Jan 22 2006 // Two Allstate Insurance units have agreed to implement new procedures to re-evaluate coverage needs of homeowners-steps sought by Arizona regulators in the wake of consumer complaints after a devastating 2003 wildfire on...
Jan 20 2006 // The first post-Katrina increase in homeowners insurance rates has been approved by the Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission, beginning what is expected to be a line of rate increase requests this year.The commission voted...
Jan 13 2006 // Travelers personal lines, a member of St. Paul Travelers, has improved its homeowners insurance program in California, including enhancingcoverage for identity theft and new credits and deductible options. Travelers’...
Jan 12 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi cautioned Los Angels residents on Wednesday to take strong, proactive steps to prepare for the next inevitable disaster by looking at flood insurance and updating their home...
Jan 12 2006 // Allstate, New York State’s biggest writer of homeowners insurance, is pulling back from writing new business in New York metropolitan coastal areas in order to limit its exposure to future storm losses.The insurer...
Jan 10 2006 // Arkansas had its first major wildfire outbreak of the season as at least 43 fires blazed statewide, with one 3,000-acre arson fire in Ashley County that destroyed eight structures and forced evacuations still burning as of...
Jan 9 2006 // Hearings to decide on rates for the homeowners insurance residual market in Massachusetts have been going on since November and are likely to continue for several more months, according to officials.The three major parties...
Jan 9 2006 // South Florida homeowners with properties located in a strip of land east of I-95 could have their policies reduced if a proposal is implemented to shift the line of demarcation as far east as U.S. Highway 1, or even A1A,...
Jan 9 2006 // The record total of homeowners insurance claims payments resulting from the 2005 hurricanes in Mississippi is reportedly enough to wipe out all homeowners premiums paid in the state during the past 17 years.The magnitude...
Jan 5 2006 // An agreement has been reached between Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and Quality Plus Restoration, a Houston, Texas-based water extraction company, settling allegations of fraudulent business practices, including...
Jan 5 2006 // The record total of homeowners insurance claims payments resulting from the 2005 hurricanes in Louisiana is enough to wipe out all homeowners premiums paid in the state during the past 25 years, as well as every dollar of...
Jan 2 2006 // The Louisiana attorney general’s office is investigating a California-based mortgage company following complaints that the firm has taken too long to release insurance money meant for Louisiana residents whose homes...
Jan 2 2006 // The winter’s first major storm in California hit the Golden State over the weekend with a one-two punch, leaving streets flooded and homes and businesses damaged or destroyed.As skies began to clear some in Northern...
Jan 1 2006 // The wind came first. It pried off boards and shot debris into windows at Ron Peresich’s home on Biloxi’s (Mississippi) Back Bay. It tore off rooftops and buckled walls in Bud Ray’s Long Beach...
Dec 31 2005 // Residents in Northern California hope that the last few days are not a sign of things to come in 2006.Heavy rains, flooding and mudslides greeted the area, as a storm moved its way through the state over the weekend,...
Dec 30 2005 // Two Allstate Insurance units have agreed to implement new procedures to re-evaluate coverage needs of homeowners – steps sought by Arizona regulators in the wake of consumer complaints after a devastating 2003...
Dec 29 2005 // At least three people in Texas and one in Oklahoma have died as the result of wildfires that have plagued the two rain-starved states in recent days.The Dallas Morning News reported that a body of a man was found in Hughes...