All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 3 2018 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.It depends on your definition of “value”. If we’re talking about market value—which is generally the price a buyer is willing to pay for a...
May 2 2018 // Dozens of insurance companies are now offering discounts to Oklahomans who have built or retrofitted their homes to certain tornado-resilient standards, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced.A new law went into...
Apr 30 2018 // AAA Carolinas Insurance has launched new inland flooding protection for policyholders. The Inland Flood Coverage is one of three new enhancements offered by AAA Carolinas Insurance, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. Home...
Apr 26 2018 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is proposing to allow owners of homes destroyed by storms and bought out by the government to rebuild on the same flood-prone land.Currently, FEMA offers to buy homes that have been...
Apr 25 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones appears to be poised for a fight with the insurance industry over a legislative package supports say will protect survivors of last year’s wildfires that struck in the...
Apr 25 2018 // I’ve been thinking a lot about homeowners’ insurance lately. That might be because I’m in the middle of the BPIC (Basic Personal Insurance Course) and the last two sessions have been focused on...
Apr 19 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance has reached a settlement with the North Carolina Rate Bureau on homeowner insurance rates that will increase rates statewide by an average of 4.8 percent.The agreement between the...
Apr 18 2018 // More than a million San Francisco Bay Area residents would face extensive damage to their homes after a major earthquake on the Hayward fault, according to a new earthquake scenario developed by the U.S. Geological...
Apr 16 2018 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Most people understand that the goal of a homeowner’ policy is to restore a home and possessions to the way they were should a natural or not-so natural disaster...
Apr 16 2018 // People jumped from their balconies and at least one family tossed a baby to a teen, as fire swept through an apartment complex near the South Carolina coast Thursday night.At least seven people were hurt and the homes of...
Apr 16 2018 // Dog bites and other dog-related injuries accounted for more than one third of all homeowners liability claim dollars paid out in 2017, costing almost $700 million.That’s according to the Insurance Information...
Apr 10 2018 // A key Connecticut lawmaker says a proposed surcharge on insurance policies to raise money to help homeowners with crumbling foundations is not a dead issue.Senator Cathy Osten, the Democratic Senate chairman of the...
Apr 6 2018 // Universal Insurance Holdings Inc.’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company (UPCIC), has commenced operations and written its first homeowners policy in New Hampshire. It has also...
Apr 4 2018 // Stop me when you’ve heard this story before. A customer calls to report a claim. It’s a small business and they have a few delivery trucks running around their city. One of them was backing out of a...
Mar 29 2018 // Preliminary estimates indicate that a hurricane recovery program in southeast Texas could elevate as many as 200 homes that have been repeatedly flooded.The Daily News reports that Galveston County commissioners received...
Mar 29 2018 // God put Brian Cross’s home in a bubble. That’s his explanation for why the tornado that blasted through Uniontown and North Union Township, Penn., last month didn’t inflict as much damage on his Millview...
Mar 28 2018 // Connecticut homeowners said they need additional financial assistance to help with crumbling home foundations that threaten to collapse their houses.Dozens of homeowners arrived in Hartford on Monday to support a bill that...
Mar 28 2018 // Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation Monday requiring backup power sources in Florida nursing homes and assisted living facilities, months after the deaths of several residents from a sweltering nursing home that lost power...
Mar 21 2018 // Severe storms that spawned tornadoes damaged homes and downed trees as they moved across the Southeast on Monday night.Forecasters warned that the storms could threaten more than 29 million people, raising the risk of...
Mar 19 2018 // More than 70 homes were destroyed as bushfires swept through the seaside town of Tathra in southeastern Australia at the weekend. Soaring temperatures and wind gusts fanned the fires about 500 kilometers (310 miles) south...