All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 16 2019 // North Carolina’s Insurance Commissioner has extended the hearing scheduled for the proposed statewide average 17.4% homeowners’ insurance rate increase by one month from Sept. 4, 2019, to Oct. 2, 2019, saying...
Jul 15 2019 // Few Nevada residents and businesses have earthquake coverage, but insurance officials said they are expecting interest to increase after the two California earthquakes that rattled the region.The magnitude 6.4 and...
Jul 1 2019 // Are Millennials More Likely to Buy Flood Insurance?Are younger homeowners more likely to protect their property by buying flood coverage? It seems so, according to a recent study. Millennials — those born between...
Jun 28 2019 // A fast-moving fire roared through several homes in a northern New Jersey neighborhood, injuring six firefighters and displacing nearly 50 residents.The fire in Paterson began around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in a home on Summer...
Jun 20 2019 // A suburb of Omaha, Nebraska, has condemned 195 flood-damaged homes, but it’s unclear who will be paying the expected bill of more than $1 million to raze them.The Bellevue City Council has decided that the mobile and...
Jun 20 2019 // Forecasters say a tornado caused some damage in Hinds County – a somewhat uncommon storm for June in central Mississippi. The National Weather Service says the EF-1 twister struck Monday near Raymond, Mississippi. No...
Jun 20 2019 // Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s Board of Governors has approved a revised 2019 rate proposal that the company said reflects recent legislative changes that targets the ongoing abuse of assignment of benefit...
Jun 18 2019 // The countdown is on for Florida assignment of benefits (AOB) reform that will take effect July 1, and the insurance industry is getting ready to respond to new requirements as a result of the law as well as evaluating how...
Jun 17 2019 // PURE Programs has expanded its coverage for high value homeowners into Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.Across the region, PURE Programs will offer coverage for homes with a rebuilding cost of $1 million...
Jun 17 2019 // Florida-based Olympus Insurance Co. has added Nathan Kochilaris as the company’s new Southwest Florida Sales manager.Kochilaris will work under Vice President of Sales and Marketing Crystal McInnis. Kochilaris has...
Jun 11 2019 // Zurich has launched Cat4Home, a new hurricane deductible buy-back program through Vertus Insurance Partners.Cat4Home is a supplemental insurance policy available to residential homeowners in Florida and covers 100% of the...
Jun 6 2019 // For the Parkers of Houston, Texas, there will be no summer vacation this year because they are still paying off the dent in their finances left by 2017’s Hurricane Harvey.The couple joins a growing list of people...
Jun 5 2019 // State Farm said last week it had received over 6,000 homeowner claims and more than 5,000 auto claims related to severe weather that pummeled the Midwest on May 27 and 28.The company reported around 6,110 total homeowner...
Jun 4 2019 // The Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1, puts 7.3 million homes at risk with an estimated reconstruction cost of $1.8 trillion, CoreLogic said in its 2019 Storm Surge Report.That’s 300,000 more homes and...
Jun 3 2019 // U.S. personal lines insurance saw strong premium growth of 8% in 2018 and the sector’s statutory combined ratio of 99% for 2018 represented the market’s best results since 2013, according to a new special...
May 30 2019 // Connecticut lawmakers are working to provide additional assistance to homeowners impacted by the crumbling foundations problem. The House of Representatives last week advanced a bill to the Senate, by a vote of 131-7,...
May 30 2019 // Severe storms swept through Pennsylvania and several tornadoes were reported, causing damage to some homes but no immediate reports of injuries.Emergency dispatchers in eastern Pennsylvania’s Berks and Chester county...
May 29 2019 // Floridians are becoming more concerned about hurricane season, after enduring four major storms in the past three years, including a category five last year, according to a survey from AAA.The AAA survey, conducted online...
May 24 2019 // U.S. personal lines insurance saw strong premium growth of 8% in 2018 and the sector’s statutory combined ratio of 99% for 2018 represented the market’s best results since 2013, according to a new special...
May 24 2019 // Long-awaited reforms for Florida’s assignment of benefits (AOB) crisis that the insurance industry and consumer advocates say has led to less coverage and higher rates for Florida property owners will officially...