All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 30 2015 // A tax hike on British motor and home insurance policies effective from Sunday is set to hit consumers and could trigger a fresh round of margin-squeezing price competition among general insurers.The jump in the insurance...
Oct 30 2015 // People who live around dozens of lakes in South Carolina are under emergency orders to repair or replace dams that ruptured or were deemed unsafe by inspectors after the historic rains this month, and they face staggering...
Oct 29 2015 // Many people who complained a federal insurance program shortchanged them after Superstorm Sandy swamped their homes are getting some validation three years later in the form of cash.A Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Oct 27 2015 // The outlook for the U.S. homeowners insurance market has improved over last year thanks in part to rate increases and lower reinsurance costs, according to reinsurance intermediary Aon Benfield.A new report by Aon Benfield...
Oct 27 2015 // The Hartford reported core earnings of $364 million for the three months ended Sept. 30, a 24 percent or $113 million decrease from core earnings of $477 million in third quarter 2014. The insurer said the decrease was...
Oct 27 2015 // Mexico may have dodged a bullet from the fury of Hurricane Patricia, but jet setters like Bill Gates, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cindy Crawford will have to find a new playground for now after the storm ravaged some of the...
Oct 26 2015 // New Jersey’s Congressional delegation members sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Oct. 23, expressing “significant concerns with the methodology” of the Flood Insurance Rate...
Oct 26 2015 // A Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial on charges that he paid his brother to set fire to his northeastern Pennsylvania home as part of an insurance scam, a blaze that claimed his brother’s life.A...
Oct 23 2015 // A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A+’ (Superior) and the issuer credit ratings of “aa-” of Munich Reinsurance Company and its subsidiaries.Best has also affirmed the...
Oct 22 2015 // Residents forced from their homes by a 7-square-mile Central Texas wildfire have been allowed to return to the evacuation zone — some to return to their homes, some to count their losses.The Texas A&M Forest Service...
Oct 22 2015 // Most Texas homeowners are unprotected when it comes to flood damage, a state insurance trade group says. Less than 25 percent of Texas homeowners carry flood insurance despite the risks of massive downpours that could...
Oct 20 2015 // Massachusetts state insurance officials are going on the road with a series of public hearings to explore how homeowners insurance is sold in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Division of Insurance says the hearings will...
Oct 19 2015 // Firefighters in Central Texas are halfway to controlling a wildfire that’s destroyed dozens of homes, and authorities said on Oct. 17 that enough progress has been made to allow some residents to return to their...
Oct 19 2015 // A Colorado judge has upheld an arbitrator’s award of more than $7 million to 20 homeowners at a golf course subdivision near Glenwood Springs whose properties were constructed on a soil linked to sinkholes and...
Oct 13 2015 // The Connecticut Insurance Department sent a notice to insurers writing homeowners insurance in the state, notifying them they are not allowed to cancel or non-renew homeowners policies based on foundation...
Oct 13 2015 // A Colorado judge has upheld an arbitrator’s award of more than $7 million to 20 homeowners at a golf course subdivision near Glenwood Springs whose properties were constructed on a soil linked to sinkholes and...
Oct 12 2015 // As of the end of 2014 the worldwide property insurance market was worth $360.5 billion in gross written premiums with household (homeowners’) policies making up 54 percent of this total, according to a survey...
Oct 9 2015 // New England Flood Insurance (NEFI) is now offering flood insurance to homeowners in New England.Coverage is underwritten by NEFI and backed by an A rated carrier and is not affiliated with the National Flood Insurance...
Oct 5 2015 // The insurance industry has some work to do to win over Gen Y customers, those ages 21 through 38.Members of the Gen Y generation, who were born between 1977 and 1994, are less satisfied with their homeowners insurers than...
Oct 5 2015 // Contractors have been tearing down hundreds of Portland homes without properly removing the asbestos inside, a practice that ignores state regulations and could put workers at risk.An investigation by The Oregonian found...