All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 24 2005 // More than half of Florida homeowners participating in a recent statewide survey have taken action to protect their homes from hurricanes. An even larger number recognizes the importance of the state’s building codes...
May 23 2005 // Led by Connecticut state Rep. Melissa Olson whose home insurance was cancelled because she owns a dog, the House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill that bans insurance companies from refusing coverage based only on...
May 23 2005 // There is not one statute in the entire Insurance Code of California that authorizes the insurance commissioner to adopt a proposed set of homeowners’ insurance regulations submitted to the Office of Administrative...
May 23 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn announced that State Farm Insurance, the state’s largest insurer of homes and second largest auto insurer, would cut its automobile and homeowners insurance rates by an...
May 23 2005 // After an unprecedented hurricane season last year and experts predicting the formation of more than 13 named Atlantic storms this season, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher is issuing a warning to...
May 23 2005 // Premiums for homeowners insurance in Kentucky aren’t rising as quickly as they did in past years, and some insurers said rates are coming down. “Rates are staying fairly stable with only small increases,”...
May 23 2005 // As of May 1, State Farm Insur-ance began accepting applications from West Virginia homeowners and businesses for new insurance policies. The company is the largest property and casualty insurer in West Virginia and in the...
May 23 2005 // MASSACHUSETTSSafe Driver Plan Revised: Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julie M. Bowler has approved changes in the way drivers receive discounts and surcharges to their auto insurance policies based on their driving...
May 23 2005 // MASSACHUSETTSSafe Driver Plan Revised: Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julie M. Bowler has approved changes in the way drivers receive discounts and surcharges to their auto insurance policies based on their driving...
May 23 2005 // GEORGIALicensing System Changes The Georgia Insurance Comm-ission held “Ind-ustry Day Meet-ings” across the state in May to discuss recent changes to the licensing system.In an effort to be responsive to agent...
May 23 2005 // There is not one statute in the entire Insurance Code of California that authorizes the insurance commissioner to adopt a proposed set of homeowners’ insurance regulations submitted to the Office of Administrative...
May 23 2005 // There is not one statute in the entire Insurance Code of California that authorizes the insurance commissioner to adopt a proposed set of homeowners’ insurance regulations submitted to the Office of Administrative...
May 19 2005 // Allstate Floridian, the state’s third-largest provider of homeowners insurance has applied to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation in Tallahassee to scale back its insurance risk in Florida by dropping 95,000...
May 18 2005 // Florida homeowners forced out of their homes for 60 days or more last year as a result of named tropical storms or hurricanes have begun to receive hurricane relief payments from the Department of Revenue.Checks averaging...
May 17 2005 // Two State Farm Insurance Co. customers have filed suit, claiming the company illegally converted the homeowner policies of hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents in ways that effectively raised their rates and...
May 12 2005 // Upgrading older homes to meet new building standards, which require new homes to withstand hurricane-force winds, is a key to surviving hurricanes, Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami,...
May 12 2005 // Union General is now offering its producers an online underwriting and rating system for Mobile Home; Homeowners, and Dwelling Fire Business. The online system is more than just a rater – agents can type in the...
May 11 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn announced that State Farm Insurance, the state’s largest insurer of homes and second largest insurer of automobiles, would cut its automobile and homeowners insurance rates...
May 10 2005 // 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 too late that it is not, according to Jerry...
May 9 2005 // When Connecticut state Rep. Melissa Olson called around for homeowner’s insurance recently, an agent on the other end of the line asked what kind of dog the Norwich Democrat owned.Olson didn’t really know for...