All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 19 2016 // Almost all of the Orleans Parish homeowners who buy coverage from the state insurer of last resort could see their rates drop 6.3 percent if the Louisiana Insurance Department approves proposed rate reductions.The Advocate...
Jan 12 2016 // Results of Mississippi’s Property Insurance Clarity Act Data Call are in and they confirm what insurance experts in the state say they already knew: insurers are not overcharging coastal residents in Mississippi. In...
Jan 11 2016 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently published on its website written public comments that were received in conjunction with the Division’s informational hearings on the Massachusetts home insurance...
Jan 6 2016 // Massachusetts residents are still getting hit by last year’s brutal winter.The Boston Globe reports that more homeowners are getting stuck with higher insurance bills following last year’s record-setting...
Jan 4 2016 // Amid the most destructive wildfire season in more than a decade, California’s firefighting agency amped up its warnings to thousands of property owners who weren’t doing enough to protect their homes by...
Dec 31 2015 // Two lawsuits have been filed by the mother of a man who was fatally shot by an Anderson, South Carolina, homeowner who said someone was trying to break into his house.The Anderson Independent-Mail reports Jo Pickens,...
Dec 30 2015 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently published on its website written public comments that were received in conjunction with the Division’s informational hearings on the Massachusetts home insurance...
Dec 28 2015 // The families of more than a dozen victims of the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, will split $1.5 million under recently finalized settlements of lawsuits against the gunman’s mother’s estate.A...
Dec 21 2015 // A bill heading to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s desk would prevent mortgage foreclosure for New Jersey homeowners whose houses were damaged by Superstorm Sandy.The bill, which passed the Legislature on Dec. 17,...
Dec 21 2015 // Indiana’s high court has confirmed a lower court’s summary judgment favoring a property insurer that denied a homeowner’s claim after discovering that misleading information about the condition of the...
Dec 21 2015 // The largest force-placed insurer in Massachusetts has agreed to provide refunds to homeowners to settle allegations that it improperly charged for force-placed insurance policies, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura...
Dec 17 2015 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance recently denied a request by Mapfre USA Corp. to add an ice-dam deductible to some homeowners policyholders who previously had multiple ice-dam claims.Mapfre USA Corp., the largest...
Dec 17 2015 // A Vermont family who said their home was made unlivable by an exterminator who used a banned pesticide has had their lawsuit against an insurance company overturned.Neil and Patricia Whitney said a foster child brought...
Dec 4 2015 // Indiana’s high court has confirmed a lower court’s summary judgment favoring a property insurer that denied a homeowner’s claim after discovering that misleading information about the condition of the...
Dec 3 2015 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Even with advancements in the direct-to-consumer channel, independent agents (IAs) continue to be a dominate distribution channel for property & casualty carriers....
Dec 3 2015 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says two of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurance companies won excessive and unwarranted rate increases of about 9 percent by taking advantage of last...
Dec 1 2015 // The New York Department of Environmental Conservation is calling on homeowners who have oil furnaces to inspect their heating oil tanks for leaks that could lead to expensive cleanups. The agency says more than 2 million...
Nov 30 2015 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon reported that three insurance companies new to Louisiana are participating in the latest round of depopulation of Citizens Property Insurance Corp.Citizens is the state’s property...
Nov 25 2015 // Pennsylvania Fire Commissioner Tim Solobay and Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller are reminding Pennsylvanians to celebrate Thanksgiving safely. According to the U.S. Fire Administration, the average number of home fires...
Nov 25 2015 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has ordered nursing homes and other health care providers to run national background checks on all new employees or risk losing their license to operate in the state. Beshear signed the...