All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 1 2014 // A House Financial Services subcommittee recently held hearing to focus attention on legislation sponsored by two Florida representatives who want to encourage more flood insurance sales by private insurers as an...
Nov 26 2014 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Owning a home is one of the largest investments most Americans will ever make and yet few homeowners understand that comprehensive sinkhole coverage is not part of a...
Nov 24 2014 // The Federal Housing Finance Agency has yet to deliver on changes to a controversial type of homeowners’ insurance even as its director told the Senate Banking Committee last week that it’s making...
Nov 21 2014 // Every state extends insurance carriers the right to cancel a newly-written policy during the first days of the policy period. This is commonly known as the new policy “underwriting period.”An underwriting...
Nov 19 2014 // Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled Monday that property owners can’t be sued for injuries suffered when someone slips on an icy sidewalk in front of their home or business, unless their town has a specific law...
Nov 19 2014 // A House Financial Services subcommittee scheduled a hearing for today to focus attention on encouraging flood insurance sold by private insurers as an alternative to policies sold by the National Flood Insurance Program...
Nov 17 2014 // Optimism over the future growth potential of independent agencies ties closely to the size of the independent agency, with larger agencies feeling more optimistic about future growth than their smaller counterparts,...
Nov 17 2014 // Emerging trends support a positive profit outlook for homeowners insurers, a leading broker believes.Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield’s “2014 Homeowners ROE Outlook” concludes that insurers’...
Nov 10 2014 // About a half-dozen homes in southwestern Detroit have been damaged or destroyed by fires that started after an explosion in a vacant house.Mayor Mike Duggan’s spokesman John Roach says investigators believe the...
Nov 10 2014 // When Hurricane Sandy roared through New Jersey two years ago, it not only tore up the shoreline. It also pushed out much of the middle class.From Ocean City to Toms River, one-story cottages and bungalows damaged by the...
Nov 7 2014 // A company says a report that Kansas has one of the highest rates of vacant foreclosures in the country reflects the small number of foreclosures in the state, not problems in the housing market.RealtyTrac says Kansas has...
Nov 3 2014 // Property/casualty insurers are increasingly using analytics as a tool to help with their homeowners’ pricing, reflecting a belief that the line could become a bigger growth engine than their auto business. At the...
Oct 31 2014 // Homeowners in eastern Cleveland County in Oklahoma could soon pay less for property insurance as result of an improved Public Protection Classification (PPC) for the Cedar Country Fire Protection District, the Oklahoma...
Oct 31 2014 // 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 31 2014 // Emerging trends support a positive profit outlook for homeowners insurers, a leading broker believes..Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield’s 2014 Homeowners ROE Outlook concludes that insurers’ prospective after-tax...
Oct 30 2014 // Anchor Property and Casualty Insurance Co. became licensed by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) on Oct. 28 to write homeowners insurance business in the state.At the same time, the company has been approved...
Oct 24 2014 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley against the Federal Housing Finance Agency and mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, saying the court doesn’t have...
Oct 23 2014 // The California Earthquake Authority on Thursday proposed an average 8 percent decrease in rates.CEA’s Advisory Panel recommended the rate decreases, along with additional coverage options in deductibles, discounts...
Oct 22 2014 // North Carolina’s insurance commissioner on Monday began deciding whether to allow homeowners’ coverage costs to rise by as much as 35 percent even as some insurers demand even higher rates in agreements with...
Oct 20 2014 // New Orleans must return hundreds of millions of dollars paid in home elevation grants after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says.The department wants names of nearly 18,000...