All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 27 2016 // A study of home insurance trends reveals good news for home insurance carriers: homeowner claims continue to decrease and loss costs are flat or on the decline.The 2016 LexisNexis Home Trends Report notes that while the...
Oct 26 2016 // The U.S. homeowners insurance market is on track for continued growth in direct premiums for 2016 despite a decreasing return on equity for insurers. U.S. homeowners premium is set to surpass $90 billion for the first...
Oct 26 2016 // Things haven’t gone as bad as they could have so far in 2016 coming off last year’s record-setting wildfire season in the Western U.S., according to a report out today detailing wildfire risks to properties in...
Oct 24 2016 // Airbnb, the online lodging service that investors now believe is worth $30 billion, faces a reckoning.In eight years of torrid growth, the company has often clashed with local public officials seeking to minimize the...
Oct 24 2016 // The homeowners insurance rate increase disagreement between the North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI) and the insurance industry is not over.The North Carolina Rate Bureau (NCRB), which files rates with NCDOI on...
Oct 11 2016 // Fire officials say flames swept through an eastern Pennsylvania apartment complex, causing extensive damage to a unit of about a dozen homes. More than a dozen firetrucks and ambulances responded to the blaze at the...
Oct 10 2016 // The Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI) reports that average premiums for auto and home insurance in the state rose in 2015 but not by much.The average rate changes in 2015 for Ohio’s top 10 homeowners and private...
Oct 7 2016 // Hurricane Matthew will pressure the earnings of some insurance underwriters in Florida and other southeast states but is not expected to present a major capital challenge, Fitch Ratings says. Fitch estimates that if the...
Oct 7 2016 // About 600,000 Florida homes were without power on Friday due to Hurricane Matthew and more outages were likely, Governor Rick Scott told a news conference, as the storm moved near the state’s Atlantic coast on a...
Oct 4 2016 // The homeowners insurance rate increase disagreement between the North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI) and the insurance industry is not over.The North Carolina Rate Bureau (NCRB), which files rates with NCDOI on...
Oct 3 2016 // Rates are going up for many Florida homeowners. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved a 6.4 percent overall rate increase for 2017 for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. homeowners’ multiperil...
Sep 28 2016 // Estimates of flood damage from last week’s flood are rising in Waseca, Minnesota, officials say, and in neighboring South Dakota weekend storms damaged homes in the Oglala area.In Minnesota, Waseca County’s...
Sep 27 2016 // The operator of a suburban St. Louis landfill where an underground fire is producing a strong odor has reached a settlement in federal lawsuits filed by nearly three dozen nearby residents.Bridgeton Landfill LLC announced...
Sep 27 2016 // Universal Direct, a direct-to-consumer online platform for Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. homeowners insurance, is now available in Florida, Hawaii and North Carolina. With these additions, the direct...
Sep 26 2016 // When Dennis Roberts’ car insurance started getting a bit too expensive, he did what a lot of consumers do and shopped around.Then he picked a new company and switched both his home and auto coverage, never expecting...
Sep 26 2016 // Attorneys for Yarnell residents who lost their homes in the deadly 2013 Arizona wildfire are asking the Court of Appeals to allow their clients to sue the state.KJZZ-FM reported that previously homeowners sued the state...
Sep 23 2016 // Some residents are suing a wood treatment company that once operated a site in rural Montgomery County where the state detected higher-than-normal arsenic levels.The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Mary and John Sparks,...
Sep 22 2016 // Overall, home insurers are performing better in customer satisfaction as they compete more on improving the customer experience than on price.However, there is one up-and-coming affluent consumer group — the Gen Y...
Sep 19 2016 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation approved a 6.4 percent overall rate increase for 2017 for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. homeowners’ multiperil policyholders across the state. According to Citizens, the...
Sep 19 2016 // An earthquake that hit Pawnee, Okla., in the north central part of the state on Sept. 3 was upgraded on Sept. 7 from the preliminary 5.6 magnitude estimate to a 5.8 magnitude temblor by the U.S. Geological Survey, making...