All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Oct 4 2002 // Underwriters Technologies’ proprietary Texas Homeowners Rating System is available free for all agents and carriers at its Web site, www.underwriterstechnologies.com, under the Free Tools link.The online rater...
Oct 4 2002 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor initiated two actions—a statewide expansion of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) and triggering of state market assistance programs, called the FAIR (Fair...
Oct 4 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 3 2002 // Minnesota consumers are experiencing a sharp rise in premiums in all classes of insurance, with homeowners’ policy rates up an average of 14 percent according to the State’s Commerce Department, which regulates...
Oct 1 2002 // In response to Farmers’ notification that it won’t be renewing homeowners polices for its Texas customers, Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher issued an announcement clarifying that Oklahomans are protected...
Sep 30 2002 // The Texas Department of Insurance is launching a new program and Web site, www.helpinsure.com, designed to help consumers find homeowners insurance. Governor Rick Perry directed TDI in August to find new ways for consumers...
Sep 30 2002 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has cleared the way for insurers to provide expanded homeowners coverage options by approving both the Insurance Services Office Inc.’s (ISO) Homeowners 2000 program and new...
Sep 30 2002 // As renewal notices go out in the mail, insurance agents across California are answering calls from their policyholders, some of whom are facing the rising homeowners and auto insurance rates.Unfortunately, several factors...
Sep 30 2002 // The past year has been a difficult one for homeowner’s insurance agents and consumers. Providers have faced spiraling claims costs, while consumers are outraged by rate hikes—leaving agents in the middle to handle...
Sep 30 2002 // Don Hanson, southwest regional manager of the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), issued the following statement on Farmers Group of Insurance Companies’ recent decision to leave the Texas homeowners...
Sep 30 2002 // As renewal notices go out in the mail, insurance agents across Texas are answering calls from their policyholders, some of whom are facing rising homeowners and auto insurance rates.Texas law requires proof of financial...
Sep 27 2002 // Policyholders of America (POA), a consumer interest group, announced it has secured enough support from Texas legislators to initiate the drafting of nine insurance-related bills to be considered in the 2003 legislative...
Sep 26 2002 // In the wake of Farmers Insurance Group of Companies’ decision to quit the Texas homeowners market, Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor released the following open letter to Farmers...
Sep 25 2002 // The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies announced it will not renew current homeowners insurance policies in Texas beginning November 2002, and will no longer be able to provide the state’s customers with homeowners...
Sep 25 2002 // Allstate Insurance Company and the University of North Texas (UNT) announced the launch of a consumer education Web site, www.insuretexas.org, to help Texans learn about and compare the new homeowners policy forms approved...
Sep 25 2002 // As rumors and speculation swirled about whether Farmers Insurance is planning to completely withdraw from the Texas homeowners market, the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) proposed a resolution to its dispute with...