All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 9 2017 // A report gives California’s insurance regulatory environment low marks for auto body repair rules, the insurance commissioner’s call for insurers to divest from coal, its prior approval law and being the...
Jan 5 2017 // Fire officials say a woman has died after a violent storm struck southwest Georgia.Albany Fire Chief Ron Rowe said Tuesday that more than 1,000 homes were damaged when a storm about a mile wide swept through the area about...
Jan 4 2017 // Authorities are searching for the cause of a fire that tore through a row of houses on Wheeling Island, W. Va.Wheeling Fire Department spokesman Philip Stahl tells media outlets no one was injured in the fire that was...
Jan 4 2017 // Velocity Risk Underwriters has expanded its Florida home insurance products and is now writing coastal homeowners policies statewide. Velocity offers an A.M. Best “A” rated coastal homeowners program through...
Dec 30 2016 // A major sinkhole has disrupted the holiday season in Fraser, Mich., a suburb of roughly 14,500 people about 15 miles north of downtown Detroit. Roads were closed and about two dozen homes evacuated after the Christmas Eve...
Dec 30 2016 // General Motors has been sued over a 2014 car fire that caused more than $450,000 in damage to two central Pennsylvania homes.Pennlive.com reports that Erie Insurance Exchange and four of its policy holders claim the blaze...
Dec 29 2016 // A Miami man was arrested on multiple felony fraud and grand theft charges following an investigation by the Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Investigative and Forensic Services (DIFS). Julian...
Dec 28 2016 // Officials estimate over 500 oceanfront homes remain at risk months of Hurricane Matthew swept past northeast Florida’s coastline.According to the St. Augustine Record, St. Johns County officials say all 42 miles of...
Dec 22 2016 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Dec 22 2016 // North Carolina ranks the worst of all 50 states when it comes to insurance regulation, according to a 2016 insurance regulation report card by an insurance industry think tank.The R Street Institute’s 2016 Insurance...
Dec 22 2016 // A report gives California’s insurance regulatory environment low marks for auto body repair rules, the insurance commissioner’s call for insurers to divest from coal, its prior approval law and being the...
Dec 22 2016 // The R Street Institute, a nonprofit public policy research organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., has found that Vermont has the best insurance regulatory environment in the U.S. for the third straight year in its...
Dec 20 2016 // Florida-Based managing general underwriter Vertus Insurance Partners has launched a supplemental insurance policy targeting homeowners in hurricane prone states. Available now in Florida, CAT4Home will provide complete...
Dec 19 2016 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled in favor of policyholders seeking coverage on claims where there is the possibility of multiple concurrent losses but at least one of the losses is covered under their policy.Though the...
Dec 14 2016 // Mountain View, Calif.-based startup Hippo today announced it has closed a $14 million Series A round.The funding was led by Horizons Ventures, which invests in disruptive technology and startups. It was joined by RPM...
Dec 12 2016 // North Carolina’s Supreme Court is rejecting efforts by insurance companies to raise homeowners’ premiums.The state’s highest court on Friday dismissed arguments by the group that represents North Carolina...
Dec 9 2016 // In a moment of peace-making with regulators, Airbnb on Wednesday released a set of policy suggestions for governments that are considering new laws for home- and apartment-renting.The document, which comes on the heels of...
Dec 8 2016 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has a plan to continue furthering its initiatives within the private flood insurance market in 2017.This comes after the North Central part of the state of Pennsylvania saw flooding in...
Dec 6 2016 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled in favor of policyholders seeking coverage on claims where there is the possibility of multiple concurrent losses but at least one of the losses is covered under their policy.Though the...