All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 11 2014 // As Florida seeks to revive its private home insurance market after almost a decade without a hurricane, homeowners are pouring $6 billion a year in premiums into a new generation of small, in-state insurance companies with...
Sep 9 2014 // New York has an estimated 15,000 homes that have been abandoned by owners after receiving foreclosure notices. With no one taking care of the properties they often fall into disrepair, hurting surrounding neighborhoods and...
Sep 9 2014 // Florida’s insurance regulator has approved rate decreases for policyholders of Citizens Property Insurance Corp.The approval means for the first time in five years a majority of the state-backed insurer’s...
Sep 9 2014 // Beginning in November 2014, Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. will offer homeowners insurance and flood insurance throughout North Carolina.While Lighthouse will debut in the state with only homeowners and flood, it...
Sep 8 2014 // Despite big storms and wildfires highlighting the need, home inventories are rare, say insurance industry experts.A recent Allstate Insurance survey of Atlanta homeowners found that while than more than 90 percent of...
Sep 8 2014 // Louisiana’s property insurance market is vastly improved nine years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the state on Aug. 29, 2005, largely due to the implementation of statewide building codes and strategies that...
Sep 5 2014 // The insurance company for the south-central Idaho city of Twin Falls says it won’t pay reimbursement costs sought by residents whose homes sustained damage when the city sewers backed up last month. The Idaho...
Aug 29 2014 // Louisiana’s property insurance market is vastly improved nine years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the state on Aug. 29, 2005, largely due to the implementation of statewide building codes and strategies that...
Aug 29 2014 // An explosion at a BP oil refinery in Indiana rattled nearby homes and sparked a fire that was later extinguished, but it didn’t cause any major injuries or halt production at the facility, a company official said.The...
Aug 25 2014 // In the early hours Sunday morning, Northern California shook with the largest earthquake it has experienced since 1989. The South Napa Earthquake, as it is being referred to by the U.S. Geological Survey, was a magnitude...
Aug 21 2014 // A wildfire northeast of Bakersfield, Calif. has destroyed eight homes and 10 other structures, authorities said, but residents of some 200 homes under evacuation orders were allowed to return home Wednesday evening.The...
Aug 20 2014 // New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo issued a consumer alert warning homeowners to protect themselves against home repair scams, which may arise in wake of the recent flooding that occurred on Long Island.“Unfortunately,...
Aug 20 2014 // Torrential rains led to weekend flooding in parts of North Dakota, inundating or threatening more than a dozen homes in the west and causing at least two injuries in the east.Many areas of the state got several inches of...
Aug 20 2014 // The recent legislative session in Tallahassee was relatively quiet, a matter some attribute to this being an election year. But even in quiet years, Florida lawmakers tend to make some noise about the insurance industry...
Aug 19 2014 // While earthquake risks are rising in the U.S., fewer homeowners nationally say they have earthquake insurance, creating a potentially huge gap in coverage, according to the Insurance Information Institute.That’s a...
Aug 18 2014 // Despite big storms and wildfires highlighting the need, home inventories are rare, say insurance industry experts.A recent Allstate Insurance survey of Atlanta homeowners found that while than more than 90 percent of...
Aug 18 2014 // Texas nursing homes that thrice commit egregious oversight offenses could be shuttered under a plan proposed by state lawmakers.The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission recommended the crackdown at its recent meeting in...
Aug 15 2014 // Jacob Richard Bonzer, 27, formerly of Lake Forest, Calif. was arrested Wednesday in Chicago by a U.S. Marshals Task Force on 96 felony counts including grand theft, forgery and denial of benefits.According to a joint...
Aug 14 2014 // Homeowners with poor credit pay 91 percent more for homeowners’ insurance than people with excellent credit, according to a study by an online insurance shopping service.The report by insuranceQuotes.com also found...
Aug 12 2014 // A Vermont couple who reached a $450,000 settlement with the state after saying their home was made uninhabitable when it was sprayed for bed bugs with a banned pesticide is now suing their insurance company. Neil and...