All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 22 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Abram Interstate Ins. Services Inc. is offering a new high valued homeowners policy. Extended replacement cost and replacement cost contents are automatically included. They offer flexible underwriting...
Nov 19 2004 // Six residents in Peeks Creek, N.C. where four people died in a Hurricane Ivan-triggered landslide have hired lawyers to represent them after being denied insurance claims.Fifteen houses were damaged or destroyed in Peeks...
Nov 15 2004 // AIG Private Client Group, a division of the property and casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group Inc. (AIG), announced the beginning of a national roll-out that adds flood coverage to eligible...
Nov 14 2004 // No effort is planned in the upcoming Arkansas legislative session to gain approval for a measure that would limit damages that could be awarded in suits against nursing homes, a top industry official says.A measure to cap...
Nov 14 2004 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently sent a message to State Farm and Farmers insurance companies, who have successfully fought state-ordered rate rollbacks for homeowners policies.“I’m not happy at all when...
Nov 11 2004 // Allstate Corp., the largest property casualty insurer in Florida, has announced it will cease writing new homeowners’ policies in Florida until the state Legislature meets in December and decides what to do about...
Nov 9 2004 // A state district judge in Texas overturned mandated rate rollbacks in homeowners insurance for State Farm and Farmers insurance companies, but the Texas Department of Insurance is reportedly not ready to give up the...
Nov 8 2004 // Lobbying has been around for as long as any single profession has been around, but it has changed. It isn’t what it used to be,” said John Norwood, managing partner of Norwood & Mattoch, one of...
Nov 8 2004 // Replacement cost, policy limits, and non-renewal of policies were the source of a heated debate in a day-long hearing investigating underinsured homeowners affected by last year’s wildfires.California Insurance...
Nov 3 2004 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies reported it enhanced its Platinum homeowners insurance program by offering more deductible options, new superior home protection credits and additional coverage.“Chubb is...
Nov 2 2004 // Mississippi’s largest insurer, State Farm, is easing its homeowner’s growth restrictions in the state. According to Commissioner of Insurance George Dale, this announcement demonstrates the company’s...
Oct 27 2004 // After Hurricane Frances ripped open the roof of Lisa and Glenn Perrone’s St. Lucie County home, an insurance adjuster told the Perrones they were on the hook for an $8,315 deductible.And after Hurricane Jeanne dumped...
Oct 27 2004 // Aon Corp. (www.aon.com) announced Wednesday the results of Aon Re’s third annual study of return on capital in the United States homeowners insurance marketplace.The results of the study reportedly reveal continuing...
Oct 26 2004 // The rapid succession of Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne has reportedly prompted Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. to allow its homeowners policyholders to treat property damage from the four storms as one...
Oct 26 2004 // Standing in a Pasadena resident’s home on the one-year anniversary of the 2003 Southern California Firestorms, Commissioner John Garamendi on Tuesday warned all California homeowners to conduct a home inventory as...
Oct 25 2004 // Allstate, Florida’s third-largest homeowner’s insurance company has stopped writing new policies in some sections of the state. More than 35,000 insurance adjusters traveled to the state after the onslaught of...
Oct 25 2004 // Even before Charley and Frances, insurers were fleeing the homeowners market for high-risk properties at an alarming pace. Over the last several years, large catastrophe and mold losses have caused insurers to dramatically...
Oct 25 2004 // In response to rising difficulty consumers now face in securing homeowners insurance following last year’s firestorms, California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that he has eased eligibility...
Oct 23 2004 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long showed Friday just how high he would go to get re-elected.He climbed to the top of the New Bern Fire and Rescue Department’s 40-foot training tower during a campaign...
Oct 22 2004 // Replacement cost, policy limits, and non-renewal of policies were the source of a heated debate in a day-long hearing investigating underinsured homeowners affected by last year’s wildfires.California Insurance...