Best Read Homeowners Headlines

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#1 As Homeowners Face Mounting Disasters, Reality TV Wants to Help

Dec 6 2023 // Television networks are tapping into a mounting challenge affecting many US homeowners: Rebuilding after disasters.Rachael Ray — the chef whose TV programs on quick dinners gained popularity in the early 2000s — has...

#2 Climate Change, Natural Disasters Sent Texas Homeowners Insurance Rates Skyrocketing in 2023

Dec 1 2023 // Insurance companies across Texas have dramatically increased home insurance rates this year, state filings show, as climate change spooks executives and inflation pushes up costs to rebuild after natural disasters.Texas is...

#3 Top 4 Alternatives to Purchasing Homeowners Insurance

Mar 4 2024 // Homeowners insurance companies are having a rough year. What’s worse is that they seem to be taking it out on us, their customers. According to an article on Policygenius, the cost of homeowners insurance went up an...

#4 How California’s Homeowners Insurance Crisis Is Affecting Brokers

Jul 23 2024 // A growing homeowners insurance crisis for Californians is straining brokers who must work harder to get increasingly expensive and more frequently unavailable coverage for their clients, a crisis many of them blame on...

#5 Funeral Home Owners Where Decomposing Bodies Found Returned to Colorado

Nov 28 2023 // The owners of a defunct Colorado funeral home where 190 sets of decomposing human remains were found have been returned to the state to face hundreds of felony charges.Carie Hallford appeared in District Court in Colorado...

#6 In SW Florida, High Home Insurance Rates Are Driving Away Would-Be Buyers

Feb 14 2024 // (Bloomberg) — Florida’s southwestern coast — long one of America’s fastest-growing regions — is losing some of its boomtown swagger as a home-insurance crisis and other soaring costs make homes...

#7 Mortgage Value Limit for Homeowners? That Sounds Like a Bad Idea

Jan 5 2024 // For context, I suggest that you read this Insurance Journal story that provides some details related to the bill that I want to discuss. Here’s the link:...

#8 Why US Home Insurance Rates Are Rising Fast – Climate Change Plays a Big Role

Sep 26 2024 // Millions of Americans have been watching with growing alarm as their homeowners insurance premiums rise and their coverage shrinks. Nationwide, premiums rose 34% between 2017 and 2023, and they continued to rise in 2024...

#9 Allstate Says It’s Ready to Grow Homeowners Line With All 3 Distribution Channels

Nov 18 2024 // Allstate said it sees opportunity where others may not — in homeowners insurance. And the insurer plans to use all three distribution channels to do it.Due to rising trends in the frequency and severity of...

#10 Mission Possible: Top 3 Carrier Innovations in P&C to Restabilize Homeowners Insurance

Apr 16 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.As the property and casualty market struggles to find its equilibrium, carriers and reinsurers are retooling their approach to risk and the market. As a Floridian...

#11 To Insure or Self-Insure? The Question Homeowners Must Answer

Jul 8 2024 // No matter where you live, there’s a good chance the weather’s getting wilder. In just the past few weeks, tornadoes have wreaked havoc on Midwest and Southern states, and large swaths of southern Florida were...

#12 The Risky Economics of ‘Going Bare’ Without Homeowners Insurance

Apr 8 2024 // Owning a home can feel like risky business, from coming up with the mortgage payment every month to worrying about disasters like fires or floods or tornadoes.But here is something riskier still: Going without home...

#13 Homeowners Insurance Does Not Cover Cryptocurrency Theft, 4th Circuit Affirms

Oct 29 2024 // A federal appeals court has affirmed that a homeowners insurance policy does not cover the theft of cryptocurrency because the loss of a digital currency does not involve a “direct physical loss” as required by...

#14 Louisiana Contractor Charged for Allegedly Damaging Homeowners’ Roof

Oct 11 2024 // On an early August morning, a roofing contractor arrived at a Lafayette, Louisiana couple’s house and requested permission to inspect the home’s roof. The roofer’s arrival wasn’t unexpected.The...

#15 US Auto Insurance Market on the Mend; Homeowners Line Volatile: Fitch

Jun 7 2024 // The U.S. personal insurance sector is positioned for improving underwriting performance in 2024.According to Fitch’s latest U.S. Personal Lines Market Update, the change is predicted amid signs that the previous...

#16 California’s Homeowners Insurance Shift: Population, Inflation and Admitted Insurer Exits

Feb 5 2024 // The excess and surplus lines homeowners insurance market in California has undergone significant changes in recent years.The number of policies has changed substantially in over the last decade — first increasing,...

#17 2024 Oregon Consumer Laws Include Protections for Homeowners Dealing with Wildfire

Dec 29 2023 // Consumer protections for homeowners dealing with wildfire-related issues, property contents coverage, personal data protection and prescription drugs are set to go into effect in 2024.The Oregon Division of Financial...

#18 Homeowners Insurance Customers Are Not Happy

Apr 1 2024 // Did your homeowners insurance premium go up this year? Mine did. Of course I live just outside of Austin, Texas, where wildfire risk has risen significantly as the state battles ongoing severe drought.Even with a nearly...

#19 Medical Worker Wants Home Insurance to Cover Her Against Patients’ Data Claims

Aug 5 2024 // A Connecticut clinical social worker believes her homeowners insurer should defend and indemnify her against claims she violated patients’ privacy by accessing and sharing their private medical information. She says...

#20 Reforms to US Disaster Aid Expose Growing Home Insurance Gap

Jan 29 2024 // When disaster hits in the US, the federal government gives aid to states and counties, but also to individuals. In 2022, the Federal Emergency Management Agency delivered $3.25 billion to nearly 1.4 million households...