All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 5 2016 // The Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility at Rutgers Law School in Camden, N.J., in collaboration with United Policyholders, is seeking to improve homeowners insurance nationally through its recently launched national...
Dec 1 2016 // With flames dripping from tree branches and the air filled with embers, thousands of people raced through a hellish landscape as they fled wildfires that killed three people and destroyed hundreds of homes and a resort in...
Nov 23 2016 // Seven people have been injured, four critically, in a fire that swept through three homes in Woodbury, N.J.One of the homes collapsed after the fire that started around 3:30 a.m. Monday in a home on Mehorter Boulevard and...
Nov 22 2016 // Although Atlantic hurricane season ends in November, cleanup from any damage seen on the East Coast could last beyond the end of the season. Some coastal areas, such as Virginia Beach, were impacted this season,...
Nov 22 2016 // Palomar Specialty Insurance Company has partnered with Cabrillo Coastal General Insurance Agency, LLC to offer coastal homeowners insurance in Mississippi. Palomar Specialty is currently offering homeowners coverage...
Nov 21 2016 // As residents of coastal Louisiana, New York and New Jersey have discovered, a house with a sea view can carry a serious and soggy downside. In terms of storms and their severity, a building’s location has never...
Nov 21 2016 // The California Supreme Court heard oral arguments this month, during which the Attorney General’s office in a suit filed by the insurance industry defended a regulatory move by Insurance Dave Jones.The regulation was...
Nov 18 2016 // Virginia is one of several southern states battling forest fires caused by humans and fueled by drought.Ed Stoots of Virginia’s Forestry Department said Wednesday that crews have fought up to 20 blazes in more than a...
Nov 17 2016 // Rutgers Law School’s Camden, N.J., location, in collaboration with United Policyholders, is seeking to improve homeowners’ insurance nationally through its recently launched project.The Rutgers Center for Risk...
Nov 16 2016 // Nashville, Tenn.-based Velocity Risk Underwriters announced it is offering coastal wind-only homeowners insurance policies for customers that may otherwise be insured in the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association...
Nov 16 2016 // ISO has introduced new homesharing insurance options to address exposures that policyholders may face when renting out all or parts of their homes.The new homeowners coverage options and accompanying rating provisions have...
Nov 9 2016 // Columbus, Ohio, has agreed to pay more than $37,000 to the owners of one of more than two dozen homes damaged last year when a home exploded after a gas leak.The Columbus Dispatch reports City Council members approved the...
Nov 9 2016 // Two Gresham, Ore. couples have agreed to pay $135,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing them of cutting down or damaging dozens of protected trees to improve the views from their homes. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported court...
Nov 8 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Tuesday issued a decision requiring State Farm Insurance Co. to reduce its dwelling insurance rates by an average of 7.0 percent, resulting is $78.6 million in annual savings...
Nov 7 2016 // Data provider CoreLogic’s new annual Wildfire Risk report designates 1.8 million single-family homes across 13 Western states as being at “Extreme” or “High” risk of wildfire damage,...
Nov 6 2016 // Families in four North Carolina counties forced from their homes after flooding from Hurricane Matthew could be moving into mobile homes soon.Gov. Pat McCrory said Thursday the Federal Emergency Management Agency approved...
Nov 4 2016 // Catastrophe losses climbed 78 percent for Allstate in its 2016 third quarter, a trend that led to a double-digit drop in net income and higher losses for Esurance, its online auto and home insurance provider.The...
Nov 2 2016 // The California Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week, during which the Attorney General’s office in suit filed by the insurance industry defended a regulatory move by Insurance Dave Jones.The regulation was...
Oct 31 2016 // Halloween pranks. Google this phrase and more than 5 million results link you to a myriad of ways to “mess with peoples’ minds” on Halloween. Some of the recommended pranks require a higher education to...
Oct 27 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller is urging homeowners whose properties suffered damage in the recent flooding that hit several North Central Pennsylvania counties to be cautious of scams when seeking...