All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 12 2000 // Progressive, the country’s fourth largest auto insurance company, will make its homeowners insurance product available to be sold by independent agents in Michigan next month. The company is a leader in collecting...
Aug 14 2000 // Don’t believe the ads you might see or hear about consumers buying their homeowners insurance online. Because if they have to try as hard as I did to procure just one quote, they’re probably going bare. Online...
Aug 2 2000 // Countrywide Insurance Services Inc. is now offering consumers the HomeSafe Protection Plan, a new in-home mechanical breakdown insurance policy that protects a variety of appliances and systems which are not covered by...
Aug 1 2000 // Aug. 1, 2000 12:35 p.m. CDTYouZoom.com Inc., an affiliate of Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc., has expanded its product line to include homeowners insurance, including renters and condominium coverage. Consumers now...
Jul 31 2000 // The New Jersey Banking and Insurance Department has introduced a 2000 Homeowner’s Insurance Premium Comparison Survey designed to help consumers compare rates for homeowner, renter and condominium insurance. The...
Jul 27 2000 // Countrywide Insurance Services is offering homeowners insurance online. Initially available in 15 states, consumers can buy their homeowners insurance through the website, www.cwinsurance.com. In the coming months,...
Jul 18 2000 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Company has increased its statewide average rate increase by 1 percent for Ohio homeowners insurance policyholders, including renters and condominium unit owners.The new rates were implemented...
Jul 13 2000 // Consumer complaints to the Illinois Department of Insurance increased by nearly 8 percent in 1999, according to complaint information released today by Director Nathaniel S. Shapo. The Department investigated 14,867 cases...
Jun 12 2000 // It’s spring home-buying season, and realtors throughout California are reporting that despite interest rate fluctuations and a seesawing stock market, the real estate market is hotter than ever.From Ventura to...
Jun 12 2000 // The passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act marked a watershed in U.S. financial regulation, opening up the banking, insurance and securities sectors to cross-holdings and business combinations after almost 70 years of...
Jun 12 2000 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) estimates that almost 11,000 households in the U.S. are at risk for flooding, which accounts for 90 percent of all disasters nationwide.Yet, the vast majority of American...
Jun 12 2000 // After the Northridge earthquake rumbled through California on Jan. 17, 1994, destroying or damaging more than 200,000 homes, injuring 12,000 people and killing 60, and damaging or leaving uninhabitable 114,000 buildings,...
Jun 12 2000 // One of the most recent “firsts” in online insurance transactions is the opportunity for consumers to actually bind homeowners policies online.Homesite Insurance holds the distinction of being the first company...
Jun 12 2000 // Nobody likes to lose their shirt, least of all insurers. So it’s no surprise that, following the huge losses caused by natural disasters in the past few years, insurers have bolted from the homeowners market, leaving...
Jun 8 2000 // Florida-based Bankers Insurance Company was recently approved to write homeowners policies in California.Doing business in the Golden State is nothing new for Bankers. As the country’s second largest flood carrier...
Jun 5 2000 // Q. Our insured is renting a facility for a wedding reception. Does homeowners liability provide coverage for our insured for the rental of this facility?A. The Homeowners exclusion 1.E.(2) excludes coverage to...
Apr 25 2000 // Homesite Insurance has launched Apply-‘n’-Buy, a proprietary insurance technology offering customers the ability to purchase homeowners and renters insurance directly online during a single visit. The entire...
Mar 7 2000 // A recent decision from the Oregon Supreme Court expands coverage for most Oregon homeowners policies to include pollution liability exposure. The original decision in November 1999, in the case of Fleming v. USAA, ruled...
Feb 2 2000 // Non-profit nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Texas will soon be admitted into the state’s Medical Liability Insurance Underwriting Association for the first time since 1982, with for-profit facilities...