All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 20 2004 // Inaccurate Territories and Assignments Hurt Consumers, Agents and CompaniesTerritories offer tremendous opportunities for insurance companies to better segment their book of business, but private passenger auto and...
Sep 20 2004 // Governor Arnold Schwarz-enegger signed three homeowners bills into law that responded to problems arising out of last year’s Southern California wildfires.Two of the bills, AB 2199 and SB 64, were considered part of...
Sep 20 2004 // Inaccurate Territories and Assignments Hurt Consumers, Agents and CompaniesTerritories offer tremendous opportunities for insurance companies to better segment their book of business, but private passenger auto and...
Sep 15 2004 // Luxury homeowners in high risk areas now have a new option when seeking to protect their properties. Willis Programs’ new offering, VIPHomeGuard, will provide customized coverage to homes valued in excess of $500,000...
Sep 15 2004 // Two new handbooks and shoppers’ guides designed to assist consumers with questions about homeowners and auto insurance are now available from the Kansas Insurance Department.The handbooks outline coverage...
Sep 15 2004 // Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co., a specialist in providing personal lines insurance to affluent policyholders, is offering a free checklist to help homeowners determine if their homes have the proper amount of insurance. The...
Sep 14 2004 // Why has the hard market created a homeowners insurance affordability and availability problem for so many consumers? Homeowners insurance policies are too broad, deductibles are too small, and insurers don’t do...
Sep 8 2004 // While insurance payments will reportedly help most Floridians recover from the financial losses inflicted by Hurricanes Charley and Frances, government grants and low interest loans will be available to help pay for the...
Sep 6 2004 // While Illinois consumers filed fewer complaints overall about their insurance companies and HMOs in 2003, complaints regarding homeowners insurers were up for the second consecutive year, according to statistics released...
Sep 6 2004 // Allstate Texas Lloyds, an affiliate of the Allstate Corporation will issue refunds of 8.75 percent of the premium paid by its Texas home insurance customers for policies with effective dates from Sept. 7, 2003 through...
Sep 6 2004 // Insurance Services Office has lowered its rating on Yuma, Ariz.’s family home building codes, a move that could result in higher homeowners rates, according to the Associated Press. Yuma received a grade six grades...
Sep 6 2004 // Mike James, president of Michael E. James Insurance Agency, plans to send agents out of the country to Mexico next year by implementing a reward program that enables qualifying agents and brokers to win an all expense paid...
Sep 6 2004 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) urged Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign into law three significant bills that respond to issues raised following last year’s Southern California wildfires....
Sep 2 2004 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group of Companies has announced an enhancement to its Disaster Mortgage Protection program by adding coverage for condominiums and multi-family dwellings through its...
Aug 31 2004 // Governor Schwarzenegger recently signed two bills, AB 2199 (Kehoe) and SB 64 (Speier), that were considered part of Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s “Homeowners Bill of Rights” package. Garamendi...
Aug 27 2004 // A new Internet Web site aims to help homeowners avoid potentially costly home oil tank spills and damage to the environment. Tankhealth.com informs provides web-based risk analysis program that helps homeowners identify if...
Aug 27 2004 // Despite improvements in construction and safety standards since Hurricane Andrew, damage to mobile homes in the path of Hurricane Charley was significant according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
Aug 26 2004 // While Illinois consumers filed fewer complaints about their insurance companies and HMOs in 2003, complaints regarding homeowners insurers were up for the second consecutive year, according to statistics released by the...
Aug 25 2004 // Attorney General Mike Hatch is intervening in a lawsuit that seeks to stop a State Farm insurance rate increase approved by the Department of Commerce earlier this year.The agency’s decision would allow...
Aug 25 2004 // A national insurance organization has lowered its rating on Yuma, Arizona’s family home building codes, a move that could result in higher home insurance rates here.The Insurance Services Office reviewed the codes...