All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 24 2015 // At least seven people were injured as severe thunderstorms that swept across northern Illinois spawned a tornado, damaged homes and uprooted trees.Particularly hard hit Monday night was Coal City, a community of...
Jun 23 2015 // People with disabilities shouldn’t be turned down for homeowners insurance just because they have pit bulls for service dogs, a federal court lawsuit filed in Oregon says.Undercover testers who told an insurance...
Jun 18 2015 // Insurance regulators in Louisiana and Oklahoma are are encouraging folks with flood insurance policies to file claims from recent flooding in those states as soon as possible.FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program...
Jun 15 2015 // Universal Insurance Holdings Inc. in Florida announced on June 1 that the Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved the homeowners insurance rates and forms of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Universal Property &...
Jun 12 2015 // Flooding from the swelling Red River put hundreds of homes and farmland underwater or in danger in rural northwest Louisiana, and state officials said that they would seek a federal disaster declaration to get help for...
Jun 10 2015 // A report issued today shows California has more than 2 million homes at “high” or “extreme” wildfire risk, as the multi-year drought continues stoke fears among some experts of a potentially...
Jun 10 2015 // A report issued today shows 4.5 million U.S. homes at high or extreme risk of wildfire as the multi-year drought continues.The report’s author said the worsening drought means 2015 has the potential to be one of the...
Jun 10 2015 // Two weeks ago we posted an article titled, “Are You One of THOSE Agents?” The article centered around some of the strange questions, comments or requests underwriters have received from their agents.Near the...
Jun 8 2015 // A tornado ripped through the Nevada town of Hawthorne on Friday afternoon, damaging homes and businesses, causing scattered power outages and temporarily shutting down a highway, authorities said. No injuries were...
Jun 8 2015 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Although the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts have been spared any significant hurricane damage over the past two years, it should not be perceived as the new normal. New...
Jun 4 2015 // More than 6.6 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of hurricane storm surge with a total reconstruction cost value estimated to be nearly $1.5 trillion, according to a report released today.Property...
Jun 3 2015 // Universal Insurance Holdings Inc. announced that the Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved the homeowners insurance rates and forms of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Universal Property & Casualty Insurance...
Jun 1 2015 // Living in a (semi)-tropical paradise has a price – and apparently, not even going nine years without a major hurricane strike will change that.While Florida’s property insurance market has stabilized somewhat since...
Jun 1 2015 // Max, Bella and their canine comrades cause more than one-third of all home insurance claims, adding $530 million a year to insurance costs.And while the number of claims is down, the cost of the average claim from dog...
May 29 2015 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday more than 300 homes have now been acquired by the state under a post-Superstorm Sandy buyout program, as he blasted other homeowners for refusing to give the state the right to...
May 29 2015 // Many are unaware that the Academy of Insurance has four “skills tests” available. Of the four, the personal lines skills test has proven to be the most popular. Here is a link to all four tests.From the...
May 28 2015 // Dallas, TX, May 28, 2015 – Following 3 years of exceptional results in personal lines, Texas All Risk General Agency, Inc. is again expanding it’s homeowners/dwelling fire aggregate in the Greater Houston...
May 27 2015 // Property insurers in Mississippi have until October 1, 2015 to respond to the Mississippi Insurance Department’s (MID) first call for homeowners’ insurance policy data that will be used to satisfy the...
May 22 2015 // More than 400 homeowners whose property lies along the Missouri River in southeast South Dakota are no longer facing a potential surcharge on their flood insurance.The Federal Emergency Management Agency had threated to...
May 19 2015 // A 110-mph tornado in Tickfaw, La. injured three people, damaged eight houses and uprooted hardwood trees, authorities said.The twister hit about 3:30 a.m. Sunday in Tickfaw, which is about 50 miles northwest of New...