All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 15 2016 // A wildfire stuck a Northern California town still recovering from a massive fire nearly a year ago, destroying more than 100 homes and forcing thousands to flee, authorities said Monday.Gusts kicked up flames on Sunday and...
Aug 15 2016 // Olympus Insurance Co., a Florida homeowners insurer, has appointed Martin Newby as vice president of Claims. Newby will serve as Olympus’ senior claims executive responsible for the development, implementation,...
Aug 8 2016 // North Carolina’s insurance commissioner had plenty of justification to reject a 2014 request by insurers to raise homeowners’ premiums by an average of 25 percent, the state Court of Appeals ruled August...
Aug 8 2016 // The number of homeowners insurance claims from lightning strikes in the United States fell in 2015. However, the total insurers paid on those claims rose by nearly 7 percent, according to the Insurance Information...
Aug 8 2016 // The Alabama Center for Insurance Information & Research (ACIIR), in partnership with Smart Home America and the Coastal Alabama Partnership, has released a new Alabama Coastal Insurance Shopper’s Guide to help...
Aug 8 2016 // Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Co. Inc., a Florida-based provider of homeowners insurance, has completed its reinsurance program for the 2016-17 reinsurance year, which runs from June 1, 2016, through...
Aug 8 2016 // New maps for Dare County, N.C., are removing thousands of homes and lots from flood zones, creating a need to update local building codes that until now accounted for more rising water.The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk...
Aug 3 2016 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Reconstruction cost, not market value or assessed value, is used by insurers to determine homeowner’s coverage limits and is an important factor in determining a...
Aug 2 2016 // Crews contended with blistering temperatures Monday as they tried to beat back a wildfire that burned rural homes and forced hundreds of evacuations in California’s Central Valley, while cooler weather gave...
Aug 2 2016 // When talking about housing, “underwater” usually means you owe more on a mortgage than the home is actually worth. If climate change continues apace, that term could take on a much more literal meaning.Rising...
Jul 29 2016 // New maps for Dare County, North Carolina, are removing thousands of homes and lots from flood zones, creating a need to update local building codes that until now accounted for more rising water.The Virginian-Pilot of...
Jul 26 2016 // The Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (FAIR Plan) has agreed to pay $350,000 to resolve allegations that it wrongly cancelled homeowners insurance policies over a four-year period, according to...
Jul 25 2016 // A 33-year-old Raceland, La., man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to arson in a fire that destroyed three homes last summer in Gheens.The Daily Comet reports Treiston Pierron pleaded guilty to...
Jul 25 2016 // Thousands were forced to flee a wildfire burning in tinder-dry canyons in Southern California, authorities said.The fire has destroyed at least 18 homes in northern Los Angeles County. The blaze momentum two days after it...
Jul 25 2016 // Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. was approved in June by the Alabama Department of Insurance to write homeowners insurance in the state through its subsidiary Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company (UPCIC)....
Jul 22 2016 // Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Inc., a Florida-based provider of homeowners insurance, has completed its reinsurance program for the 2016-17 reinsurance year, which runs from June 1, 2016...
Jul 22 2016 // The Alabama Center for Insurance Information & Research (ACIIR) in partnership with Smart Home America and the Coastal Alabama Partnership has released its new Alabama Coastal Insurance Shopper’s Guide to help...
Jul 20 2016 // Ironshore Private Client Group has expanded its Ironshore Private Insurance Portfolio product to high net worth homeowners in Connecticut. Ironshore Private Insurance Portfolio coverage is available in four states on an...
Jul 18 2016 // The federal government is suing a California homeowner for nearly $25 million, contending his negligence sparked a 2013 fire in the mountains east of Los Angeles that forced 5,000 people from their homes.The lawsuit says...
Jul 18 2016 // Just because a person lives in the house does not mean he is an insured under the Homeowners’ (HO) or Personal Auto Policy (PAP). Nor does an individual necessarily have to live in the household to be insured on...