All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 2 2002 // Main Street America Group announced that the recent rollout of its homeowner policy change request application online has been well received by its independent agency partners.Main Street America Group’s homeowner...
Jul 31 2002 // Ohio-based Wayne Wayne Mutual Insurance Company has begun implementing Results International Systems Inc.’s (RIS) ASP Outsourcing solution for end-to- end processing of all Wayne Mutual’s lines of...
Jul 30 2002 // Ohio automobile insurance consumers continue to fair well when compared to consumers in other states according to Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington.According to an annual survey and analysis of national automobile...
Jul 24 2002 // The two Texas gubernatorial candidates continue to trade barbs over the state’s tumultuous homeowners insurance market, further proving that higher premiums have become a major issue in the campaign.According to the...
Jul 23 2002 // Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Sanchez is contending that Gov. Rick Perry should call a special session of the Texas Legislature to deal with the state’s reeling homeowners market. According to the...
Jul 22 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Spectrum Brokers has available a program for manufactured home retail. Business is brokerage only. Endorsements include broad form.Dollars: Policy limits are $1,000/$2,000 general liability and property,...
Jul 22 2002 // According to the Alliance of American Insurers, Nevada insurance regulators concerned about the availability of residential contractor’s liability insurance should not look to mandatory pools, but should develop a...
Jul 22 2002 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor has initiated an investigation of Farmers Insurance Co. to determine whether new homeowners restrictions it put in place violate fair trade practices.The Austin...
Jul 22 2002 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor has approved homeowners policy forms from the Insurance Service Office (ISO) similar to policies used by insurers in other states.Insurers wanting to use the ISO form in Texas...
Jul 22 2002 // Gordon Stewart, president of the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.), said in Congressional testimony July 18 that mold has become a major factor in rising homeowners costs, reaching crisis proportions in Texas, and a...
Jul 22 2002 // An extraordinary number of catastrophes, the high cost of home repairs and excessive jury awards due to the emergence of mold claims are pushing the cost of homeowners insurance upward an average of 8 percent nationwide in...
Jul 22 2002 // In the teeth of the first true hard market in nearly two decades, evidence accumulated by the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas confirms the surplus lines insurance market is successfully fulfilling its primary...
Jul 9 2002 // Safe Harbor Surplus has available programs for condo/homeowner associations, property management firms and property managers.Condo coverages are for D&O, EPLI, fidelity, umbrella and workers’ compensation....
Jul 8 2002 // State Farm Insurance Company announced it would stop writing new homeowners insurance in 17 states in efforts to boost profitability, according to reports by the Dow Jones Newswire and the Associated Press. The move comes...
Jul 8 2002 // Considering Texas has one of the most difficult insurance markets in the country right now, Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor comes across not at all as one might expect—an embattled public official scrambling to...
Jul 8 2002 // Following an investigation by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, seven Houston homeowners were arrested in connection with an alleged...
Jul 8 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Safe Harbor Surplus has available programs for condo/homeowner associations, property management firms and property managers. Condo coverages are for D&O, EPLI, fidelity, umbrella and workers’...
Jul 8 2002 // Following an investigation by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, seven Houston homeowners were arrested in connection with an alleged...
Jul 8 2002 // Homeowners insurance rates have risen by average of 8 percent nationwide in 2002 due to an extraordinary number of catastrophes, the high cost of home repairs and excessive jury awards in mold cases, according to a new...
Jul 1 2002 // An extraordinary number of catastrophes, the high cost of home repairs and excessive jury awards due to the emergence of mold claims are pushing the cost of homeowners insurance upward an average of 8 percent nationwide in...