All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 6 2014 // Hundreds of homes in western England and Wales remained without power today after storms cut lines and damaged railway tracks.About 280 households had electricity cuts as of 8:30 a.m. U.K. time, said Western Power...
Feb 5 2014 // More than one-third (36 percent) of Americans would rent someone else’s home for vacation, but far fewer (20 percent) would rent out their own home to others, according to a new survey sponsored by the Chubb Group of...
Feb 4 2014 // Florida-based Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. (UPCIC) has applied to expand into Indiana, Minnesota and Delaware. UPCIC is one of the leading writers of homeowners insurance in Florida and a fully licensed...
Feb 4 2014 // Florida CFO Jeff Atwater said an ongoing insurance fraud investigation known as “Operation Leaky Pipes” has led to the arrests of 12 Miami residents. He said the investigation uncovered a scheme between a...
Feb 4 2014 // The effort to delay huge increases in insurance premiums for homeowners in flood-prone areas faces a skeptical House chairman who is largely standing behind the changes Congress oversaw in the nation’s flood...
Feb 3 2014 // In 2013, Texas drivers and homeowners filed the fewest number of complaints against their insurance companies since the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) began keeping records, the Insurance Council of Texas...
Jan 31 2014 // Mississippi lawmakers could require insurers to disclose how much they collect in premiums and how much they pay in claims in each ZIP code under a bill advancing in the state legislature.House Bill 753 could spark more...
Jan 30 2014 // The Senate passed a bill Thursday to delay certain flood insurance rate hikes and create a national registry for licensing insurance agents by a vote of 67-32. (See how senators voted at end of story.)The bill delays the...
Jan 29 2014 // Homeowners of America Insurance Co. (HOAIC), a Texas-based property and casualty insurance company, is expanding its products to offer flood insurance to its policyholders in Texas.Homeowners of America flood insurance...
Jan 29 2014 // Connecticut officials have rejected $18 million in requests for the latest round of Superstorm Sandy aid from shoreline homeowners who want to use the emergency funding to elevate their homes to avoid future storm...
Jan 28 2014 // The following is an opinion from Michael Hecht, president and CEO of Greater New Orleans Inc. and the Coalition for Sustainable Flood Insurance, regarding the White House’s opposition to the Homeowner Flood Insurance...
Jan 28 2014 // North Carolina homeowners are looking at insurance cost increases averaging 25 percent starting in August if the state’s regulator goes along, and his office heard Friday from some of those upset about the prospect...
Jan 27 2014 // The oil drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been blamed – rightly or wrongly – for various hazards ranging from earthquakes to water pollution.While the technique has generated a lot of...
Jan 27 2014 // The oil drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been blamed – rightly or wrongly – for various hazards ranging from earthquakes to water pollution.While the technique has generated a lot of...
Jan 27 2014 // Despite urging by the state’s insurance commissioner that they withdraw their bid, North Carolina homeowners insurers are unlikely to withdraw their request for a 25.3 percent average rate hike.The data supports the...
Jan 27 2014 // Homeowner insurance rates are finally coming down in Florida nearly a decade after the last hurricane hit, the state’s insurance commissioner says.But the report by Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty also showed...
Jan 27 2014 // East Baton Rouge Parish homeowners who buy coverage from Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. would see rates increase an average of 9.9 percent while wind-only policies would jump by 17.1 percent under a proposed...
Jan 24 2014 // Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Co., Inc., a Florida based provider of admitted homeowners insurance and wholly-owned insurance subsidiary of HCI Group, Inc., is now selling flood insurance to existing...
Jan 24 2014 // New technologies and a better understanding of flood risk may have increased private insurers’ interest in providing flood insurance but real obstacles remain to the private sector getting involved.The obstacles...
Jan 22 2014 // Recent winter storms have already left a path of damage and power outages across the country. When a storm strikes, it’s important to know what to do if the home is damaged or if the insured gets involved in an auto...