All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 11 2003 // WHAT EVERY HOME OWNER NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT MOLD And What To Do About ItA Paperback Original By Vicki Lankarge What Every Home Owner Needs to Know About Mold (McGraw-Hill, May 2003; $12.95 Paperback) is the complete guide to...
Mar 11 2003 // What Every Home Owner Needs to Know About Mold (McGraw-Hill, May 2003; $12.95 Paperback by Vicki Lankarge) is the complete guide to dealing with mold in your home – the asbestos of the new millennium.Toxic mold...
Mar 10 2003 // Fiserv FSC, Inc. announced that with CapFSC, California insurers can now, with one person, in less than one day, do what used to take a team of employees days or weeks to accomplish.CapFSC is a dependable and accurate...
Mar 10 2003 // As promised, the 78th Texas Legislature is on a roll with insurance reform, with one bill having been signed into law and many more in committees or on their way to the House and Senate floors. Among the proposed...
Mar 7 2003 // National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) Federal Affairs vice president, Monte Ward, issued the following statement in response to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) media briefing, regarding...
Mar 7 2003 // Risk Enterprise Management Limited (REM) announced that one of its run-off clients, Home Insurance Company (The Home), was placed into voluntary Rehabilitation pursuant to an Order of Rehabilitation by the Superior Court...
Mar 6 2003 // Risk Enterprise Management Limited (REM) announced that one of its run-off clients, Home Insurance Company (The Home), was placed into voluntary Rehabilitation pursuant to an Order of Rehabilitation by the Superior Court...
Feb 27 2003 // Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst commented that homeowners insurance rates in Texas are running some 12 to 18 percent higher than they should be. According to the Houston Chronicle, Dewhurst made the remarks after Gov. Rick...
Feb 24 2003 // Is Texas the next New Jersey? That was one of the many questions posed about the state by Robert Hartwig, chief economist for the Insurance Information Institute, at the 40th Annual Joe Vincent Management Seminar held by...
Feb 14 2003 // An Oregon regulation addressing credit-based insurance scores should receive a chance to take effect and work before lawmakers consider adopting unnecessary legislation that could prevent consumers from getting the...
Feb 10 2003 // The times they are a’changin’.” Bob Dylan’s 60’s refrain could be the theme song for a new spirit moving through the ranks of the insurance industry’s exclusive (captive) agents. The...
Feb 10 2003 // The times they are a’changin’.” Bob Dylan’s 60’s refrain could be the theme song for a new spirit moving through the ranks of the insurance industry’s exclusive (captive) agents. The...
Feb 7 2003 // The California Assembly Insurance Committee met in a hearing Feb. 5, when Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi discussed his plans to address homeowners insurance issues. The Association of California Insurance...
Feb 7 2003 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi testified before the Assembly Insurance Committee recently, discussing the impact of water damage and mold on consumers and the insurance industry. Below is the text of his...
Feb 5 2003 // Diane Colborn, vice president of the Personal Insurance Federation of California (PIFC), told the Assembly Insurance Committee earlier today that the most significant factor in recent homeowners insurance premium increases...
Jan 31 2003 // Texas lawmakers introduced two bills in Texas legislature that aim to control rising insurance rates in the state.Texas State Senator Troy Fraser of Horseshoe Bay announced the filing of Senate Bill 310, requiring...
Jan 28 2003 // Bunker Hill Insurance Company, a new entrant to the Connecticut homeowners insurance market, announced that it is “open for business,” following the receipt of approval for its homeowners rates from the...
Jan 27 2003 // Gov. Rick Perry officially designated homeowners insurance and medical malpractice reform as emergency issues for the 78th Texas Legislature. The governor’s designation allows state lawmakers to begin work on these...
Jan 20 2003 // Two months after the worst bushfires in 80 years caused extensive damage around Sydney, Australia’s largest city, the worst fires in 50 years have been ravaging the country’s capital, Canberra and its suburbs....
Jan 10 2003 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor announced the official launch of the Texas FAIR (Fair Access to Insurance Requirements) Plan Association’s homeowners insurance market-of-last-resort in Texas. As of Jan....