All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 25 2004 // National insurance trade association Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) reported that Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor told the House Insurance Committee that the reforms implemented...
Aug 24 2004 // Homeowners having roofs repaired after Hurricane Charley must make sure the plywood panels protecting their homes are nailed in place.Engineers from the Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) surveying damage...
Aug 23 2004 // Fire safety problems at nursing homes are widespread and government oversight is lacking, according to congressional investigators who issued a report spurred by deadly fires in homes in Connecticut and Tennessee.Nearly 60...
Aug 23 2004 // Retired police officers Ed and Nancy McCue are thinking about leaving their dream home near the shores of Biscayne Bay because it’s in a prime area for hurricanes.It’s not the storm threat itself that’s...
Aug 23 2004 // The fire season started early this year. Wildfires erupted all over California and in Nevada in mid-July, forcing thousands to evacuate and destroying several homes and outbuildings. Affected areas in California included...
Aug 19 2004 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) today urged Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign into law three significant bills that respond to issues raised following last year’s Southern California...
Aug 17 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...
Aug 12 2004 // The state Appellate Court in Connecticut has reversed a Superior Court ruling that the shooting of his wife by a husband is covered under a homeowners policy.The unanimous ruling denies the imprisoned husband coverage for...
Aug 12 2004 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher will keep the Department of Financial Services’ storm line, 1-800-22-STORM, operating throughout the weekend to assist Floridians in the event of damage from...
Aug 12 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...
Aug 9 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Canon Insurance announced a series of expanded benefits to its respected high-valued homeowners program. This program features a revamped and improved policy form designed around high-value homes for...
Aug 9 2004 // Higher claims frequency and severity make it twice as expensive for insurers to offer full auto and homeowners coverage to residents in metropolitan Detroit than the state as a whole, according to a recent study conducted...
Jul 22 2004 // Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co.announced that it will reduce home and auto insurance policy deductibles by 10 percent for many customers each year they are claim-free˜providing long-term savings.“So many of our...
Jul 22 2004 // The use of loss history reports in underwriting homeowners insurance policies was the subject of seminars held recently in Oregon and Idaho.Sam Sorich, Western Region vice president for the Property Casualty Insurers...
Jul 20 2004 // Seattle-based Safeco announced strong second-quarter results, reflecting the company’s solid underwriting and the competitive strength of its automated sales platform. In addition, weather-related catastrophe losses...
Jul 19 2004 // The Assembly Insurance Committee took action on several pending homeowners insurance bills in late June. According to the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC), consumers will benefit from the recent...
Jul 19 2004 // Whether real or imagined, the threat of construction defects litigation has burned through the residential contractors liability insurance market like a California wildfire. Over the past couple of years, contractors and...
Jul 19 2004 // Don Robinson says his Residence Mutual insurance policy pegged the cost of replacing his San Diego home at $233,000. After Southern California’s wildfires destroyed the 40-year-old biologist’s four bedroom...
Jul 14 2004 // Higher claims frequency and severity make it twice as expensive for insurers to offer full auto and homeowners coverage to residents in metropolitan Detroit than the state as a whole, according to a recent study conducted...
Jul 14 2004 // Tropical storm experts are forecasting a 71 percent chance of a major hurricane hitting the U.S. coastline in 2004 – a significant jump from the long-term average of 52 percent.The National Oceanic Atmospheric...