All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 6 2002 // Austin, Texas-based homeowner advocate, Melinda Ballard, announced she filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court against Farmers Insurance (Farmers) and its paid spokesman for falsely accusing her of committing...
Nov 1 2002 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) announced that it is investigating a number of consumer complaints into potential violations of Michigan’s homeowners insurance law.The bulletin said it...
Oct 29 2002 // SAFECO reported continued earnings growth as third-quarter net income increased to $75.2 million, or $0.59 per diluted share. Income before charges and realized gains increased to $86.4 million, or $0.68 per diluted...
Oct 28 2002 // Aon Corporation announced the results of Aon Re Worldwide’s comprehensive study of the U.S. homeowners marketplace. The results of the study reveal that the homeowners insurance industry, despite recent rate and...
Oct 28 2002 // At a Texas Department of Insurance public hearing held in early October, insurance agents and other interested parties testified on TDI proposals to create a temporary residual market or market-of-last-resort for...
Oct 28 2002 // Be prepared.” Personal lines agents would do well to take that time-tested Scout motto to heart during these troubled times in the Texas homeowners market. Already inundated with calls from folks who are having a...
Oct 28 2002 // Be prepared.” Personal lines agents would do well to take that time-tested Scout motto to heart during these troubled times in the Texas homeowners market. Already inundated with calls from folks who are having a...
Oct 21 2002 // State Farm Insurance Co. is expected to resume writing new homeowners insurance policies in Central Florida and other parts of the state on a limited basis after being granted a 23.3 average increase for homeowners...
Oct 21 2002 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) announced that it has launched a special home insurance information web site to provide the state’s consumers with up-to-date information on the...
Oct 18 2002 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas announced it now offers homeowners a new online resource for finding independent insurance agencies that are actively writing homeowners insurance policies. The resource, called...
Oct 15 2002 // Angry agents from Farmers Insurance Group confronted Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor during a recent public hearing on Texas Department of Insurance proposals designed to increase the availability of homeowners...
Oct 14 2002 // Tell them what they want to hear or offer true solutions? That is the question facing the candidates who are running for offices in California and Texas this Nov. 5. Two of the races—the race for insurance commissioner...
Oct 14 2002 // Tell them what they want to hear or offer true solutions?That is the question facing the candidates who are running for offices in California and Texas this Nov. 5. Two of the races—the race for insurance commissioner in...
Oct 14 2002 // Negotiations continued in early October between state officials and senior executives of Farmers Insurance Group of Companies in the effort to find a solution that would entice the insurer to continue to provide homeowners...
Oct 14 2002 // In response to Farmers’ notification that it won’t be renewing homeowners polices for its Texas customers, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher issued an announcement clarifying that consumers in his...
Oct 14 2002 // The Texas homeowners insurance market—like many around the nation—is experiencing rising premiums, controversy over mold claims and debate over the use of credit scoring.Texans purchase 3.9 million homeowners insurance...
Oct 14 2002 // The 2001 premium and loss data for Texas verifies everything you heard from the insurance companies — it was a really bad year. Here are the highlights in review: • Texas accounts for 7 percent of the national premium...
Oct 11 2002 // Given the increasingly complex situation created by Farmers Insurance Group’s recent announcement to leave the Texas homeowners insurance market, the American Insurance Association (AIA) supports the efforts of the...
Oct 11 2002 // In testimony before the Texas Department of Insurance (Docket No. 2535) on the departments’ plans to implement stopgap measures to help prevent a homeowners insurance market meltdown, Joe Woods, Southwest regional...
Oct 4 2002 // The Association of Fire and Casualty Companies of Texas (AFACT), a property/casualty insurance trade association, announced that its member companies are still offering homeowners policies to Texas consumers and asserted...