All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 9 2018 // Investigators say improperly discarded fireworks sparked a fire that burned down three Dawson County, Georgia homes. State fire marshal spokesman Glenn Allen tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the fire, which...
Jul 3 2018 // More than 100 homes in the Colorado mountains were destroyed by a growing wildfire, while hundreds of others across the parched U.S. West remained under evacuations Tuesday.A fire near Fort Garland, roughly 200 miles...
Jul 2 2018 // Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will wait until December to determine its 2019 insurance rates and whether it will approve a proposed 7.9 percent statewide increase for homeowners policies.The decision to...
Jul 2 2018 // After four years of sub-100 combined ratios for the U.S. homeowners insurers, the segment saw its combined ratio deteriorate to 107.1 in 2017 as a result of numerous catastrophes, according to an A.M. Best report.The new...
Jul 2 2018 // Personal lines underwriting losses rose in 2017 for the fourth year in a row, Fitch Ratings found in a new report. There’s a twist, however.In the three years prior to 2017, personal auto insurance contributed...
Jun 29 2018 // After Hurricane Harvey inundated David Bush’s Richmond, Texas, home with 20 inches of rain, he knew he wanted to rebuild but was worried about how his property could be protected from the next big storm.So, Bush came...
Jun 29 2018 // John Matthew Polous watched a “controlled-burn” fire for three days as it consumed foliage outside his tiny community on the Florida Panhandle. And then he watched as it quickly raged out of control. What he...
Jun 27 2018 // A fast-moving wildfire damaged or destroyed dozens of homes in a Florida county.Gov. Rick Scott visited the small coastal community of Eastpoint on Monday to get an update on the damage. Eastpoint is in Franklin County and...
Jun 22 2018 // The entire Texas coastline has been drenched this week with heavy rains resulting in flooding in many areas with several cities reporting rainfall totals in excess of 12 inches.The Insurance Council of Texas is issuing a...
Jun 21 2018 // Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will wait until December to determine its 2019 insurance rates and whether it will approve a proposed 7.9 percent statewide increase for homeowners policies.The decision to...
Jun 20 2018 // Palm Beach Gardens, Florida-based Weiss Ratings has named the six strongest providers of homeowners insurance doing business in Texas that are financially ready for the 2018 hurricane season. At the same time, Weiss...
Jun 20 2018 // After four years of sub-100 combined ratios for the U.S. homeowners insurers, the segment saw its combined ratio deteriorate to 107.1 in 2017 as a result of numerous catastrophes, according to an A.M. Best report.The new...
Jun 20 2018 // Just six months after the punishing 2017 season battered the Sunshine State, most Floridians are still not prepared for the potential assault of another hurricane season, according to a survey by the FAIR Foundation.The...
Jun 19 2018 // Flo Technologies, Inc., provider of leak prevention systems to prevent water damage in homes, has launched a reimbursement program called HomeProtect that will pay back homeowners for their insurance deductibles up to...
Jun 18 2018 // Personal lines underwriting losses rose in 2017 for the fourth year in a row, Fitch Ratings found in a new report. There’s a twist, however.In the three years prior to 2017, personal automobile insurance contributed...
Jun 14 2018 // An unusual early morning hailstorm pounded parts of Colorado, including Southeast Colorado Springs, Fountain and Fort Carson, with golf and baseball-sized hail damaging homes, cars and businesses, according to the Rocky...
Jun 13 2018 // Officials on Hawaii’s Big Island let some people back into their homes and scaled down emergency operations this week as lava flowed into the ocean on a path that wasn’t threatening new areas.“We’ve...
Jun 7 2018 // As the largest U.S. insurers gathered at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square to discuss the prospects for their industry, a threat to that future emerged from the nation’s other coast.Amazon.com Inc., the...
Jun 7 2018 // Like thousands of other Floridians, I recently received my homeowner’s insurance renewal statement only to learn that my premium was increasing by a double-digit percentage – nearly $600 annually. But like most...
Jun 6 2018 // Lava from Hawaii’s erupting Kilauea volcano has destroyed more than 100 homes in a rural Big Island district.As of Monday, lava burned down 117 homes, said Hawaii County spokeswoman Janet Snyder. On Friday, the count...