Latest Homeowners Headlines

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American Traditions Insurance Launches Renters Policy in Florida

Oct 3 2018 // American Traditions Insurance Co. (ATIC) has launched a renters (HO4) product in the Florida marketplace. The HO4 product will be available through independent agents currently participating with the carrier. The renters...

Insurtech Kin Insurance Expands Homeowners Offering into Georgia

Oct 2 2018 // Kin Insurance, an insurtech startup offering insurance for homeowners, has expanded into Georgia. Kin uses big data analysis to help simplify the process of obtaining homeowners insurance.Kin aggregates data from public...

Florence Impact on Insurers Tempered by Mostly Uninsured Flood Losses

Oct 1 2018 // Insurance industry losses from Hurricane Florence, which hit the Carolinas mid-September as a Category 1 storm, will be manageable and not have a severe impact on insurers, according to experts.As the storm turned out to...

Just Like Many British Homes, UK Insurers’ Shares Are Subsiding This Summer

Sep 28 2018 // Just like a lot of British houses this summer, U.K. insurance stocks are sinking.The country’s non-life insurers sector had its steepest drop in more than a year-and-a-half on Friday after its biggest constituent,...

Florence Impact on Insurers Tempered by Mostly Uninsured Flood Losses

Sep 25 2018 // Insurance industry losses from Hurricane Florence, which hit the Carolinas mid-September as a Category 1 storm, will be manageable and not have a severe impact on insurers, according to experts.As the storm turned out to...

High Winds, Tornadoes Damage Homes, Businesses in Southern Minnesota

Sep 24 2018 // Several tornadoes struck southern Minnesota as severe storms packing powerful winds and heavy rain left a trail of destruction overnight, the National Weather Service said Friday.The extreme weather late Thursday damaged...

California Passes Handful Bills Aimed at Protecting Wildfire Survivors

Sep 21 2018 // Five bills that their proponents say will protect wildfire survivors were signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday.The bills are aimed at addressing critical issues facing wildfire survivors including...

Did You Just Ask That?

Sep 19 2018 // We’ve received a few questions lately through our Ask an Expert service that motivated this post.Wait. You don’t know about Ask an Expert? It’s a benefit of the new subscription service through Insurance...

After Florence Floods, Uninsured Awaken to Painful Reality

Sep 19 2018 // Flood insurance was far from Stephanie Walker’s mind in 2015 when she moved her family into a home in Fayetteville in central North Carolina, nearly 200 miles (320 km) from the coast.The next year, a creek at the end...

Tower Hill Specialty Expands Homeowners Products into Alabama

Sep 18 2018 // Tower Hill Specialty insurance products for homeowners are now available in Alabama, as the Ohio-based company expands its regional focus in the Southeast. Specializing in personal lines property products, Tower Hill...

Hurricane Florence’s Surge Is Expected to Hit Homes That Already Cost the Government Millions: ProPublica

Sep 18 2018 // Though the flooding from Hurricane Florence is predicted to be unprecedented, residents of the coastal North Carolina towns threatened by the storm surge know what it’s like to take on water. Some homes in these...

Can Home Insurers Keep Customers as Happy as Insurtechs?

Sep 17 2018 // Homeowners insurance companies are faring rather well when it comes to customer satisfaction. Consultants at J.D Power think the carriers’ investments in improved digital channels and bundled products that combine...

Virginia Insurers ‘Actively Preparing’ for Florence; State’s Top 10 Home Insurers

Sep 13 2018 // The Virginia Bureau of Insurance says it is “confident that insurers are actively preparing for this storm” as the potential impact of Hurricane Florence is anticipated in the state.“The Bureau’s...

CoreLogic: 759K Homes, $170B in Reconstruction Value at Risk from Florence Storm Surge

Sep 11 2018 // Nearly 759,000 homes with a reconstruction cost value (RCV) of approximately $170.2 billion are at potential risk of storm surge damage from Hurricane Florence based on its Category 4 status, CoreLogic said in an analysis...

Large Hole Opens Between 2 Homes in Florida

Sep 10 2018 // A large hole has opened between two homes in a gated community in Florida.Pasco County officials said in an email sent Sept. 5 that about half of the hole – which is 40-feet (12-meters) across and 20-feet (6-meters) deep...

Lawsuit Planned Against Brad Pitt Foundation over New Orleans Homes

Aug 31 2018 // An attorney plans to sue actor Brad Pitt’s foundation over the degradation of homes built in an area of New Orleans that was among the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina.The forthcoming lawsuit against Pitt’s...

Virginia Reminds Homeowners to Review Property Coverage Before a Hurricane

Aug 30 2018 // Although hurricane activity in the Atlantic has been relatively quiet so far for 2018 with only five named storms to date, the Virginia State Corporation Commission’s (SCC) Bureau of Insurance is reminding Virginians...

Last Year’s Wine Country Fires in California Leave Homeowners Struggling

Aug 29 2018 // Construction crews have already put up the frame on Cheri Sharp’s new house, but she still questions whether rebuilding was the right choice after California’s most destructive wildfire took her old home in...

1-in-5 Consumers Say They’d Use Amazon or Google for Home Insurance

Aug 28 2018 // One-in-five consumers say they would use Amazon or Google for their home insurance, a J.D. Power survey released today shows.And most of those who took the survey (80 percent) already have insurance with a large national...

Report Shows California Wildfires, Climate Change Altering Insurance Landscape

Aug 27 2018 // Insurers may be non-renewing more in wildfire-prone areas of California, sending an increasing number of people to the residual market or to surplus lines insurers.A report released on Monday shows that market shares of...