Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Houston-Area Rain Floods Homes, May End Drought
Jul 16 2012 // Historic rainfall levels that drenched the Houston area last week flooded dozens of homes and caused widespread street flooding, but the rain also is likely to result in the end of drought conditions in Southeast Texas,...
Farm Bureau Dropping 3,000 South Carolina Homeowner Policies
Jul 16 2012 // Farm Bureau Insurance said it is dropping about 3,000 South Carolina home insurance customers after paying out millions in storm-related claims last year. The Post and Courier of Charleston reported that property owners in...
Texas Home Insurance Premiums Up Since 2009
Jul 12 2012 // A report from the Texas Department of Insurance says that homeowners insurance premiums in Texas have gone up 21 percent since 2009. The report that state Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman presented to a Senate...
Allstate Dropping 10,000 South Carolina Homeowners Policies
Jul 12 2012 // Allstate is dropping about 10,000 South Carolina home insurance customers. The company is dropping customers who don’t also carry Allstate auto coverage, have older homes and have homes insured for less than...
Property/Casualty Insurance Professionals Nationwide Get New Revenue Stream and Client Retention Tool with ValueAppeal PRO® Property Tax Service
Jul 10 2012 // Seattle, WA, 07/10/12 – ValueAppeal, a pioneering online do-it-yourself property tax appeal service developed to help homeowners ensure that they are not overpaying their property taxes, today announced the launch of...
Homeowners’ Complaints About Bears Soaring Across Maine
Jul 9 2012 // Maine wildlife officials say the number of complaints about bears has more than doubled so far this year. Officials say between Jan. 1 and July 3, the Maine Warden Service had received 542 complaints from the public about...
Paper: $110M Worth Of Homes Lost In Colorado Wildfire
Jul 5 2012 // A newspaper’s analysis indicates that Colorado’s most destructive wildfire burned homes worth a total of more than $110 million in one of the neighborhoods affected by the blaze. The Denver Post reports the...
CEA Unveils Homeowners Choice Earthquake Coverage Product Line
Jul 3 2012 // As of July 1, 2012, the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) is offering its new Homeowners Choice product line. The new product will give residents greater control over their earthquake insurance premium and the ability...
Campbell Joins Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Cos.
Jul 3 2012 // Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Cos. named Michael Campbell to its workers’ compensation division as assistant vice president of underwriting. Campbell has more than 20 years of industry experience, most recently at...
Ala. Gov. Bentley Touts New Homeowners’ Insurance Laws
Jul 2 2012 // Alabama’s governor is promoting new laws designed to make homeowners’ insurance more affordable after hurricanes drove up prices. Gov. Robert Bentley, who owns a vacation home on the coast, made...
Force-Placed Insurers to Submit Lower Rates in N.Y.
Jul 2 2012 // New York regulators have ordered three major insurers offering “force-placed” homeowners insurance in New York to submit proposals for new premium rates. The state’s Department of Financial Services (DFS)...
Maryland Teens Rebuild Vermont Homes Destroyed by Irene
Jun 25 2012 // A group of Maryland teenagers is helping rebuild two Vermont homes nearly destroyed last year by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene. The group calls itself DreamBuilders, and the members came to the White River Junction...
Sinkhole Threatening Homes in Tampa Bay Area
Jun 22 2012 // A giant sinkhole swallowed the back half of a Tampa Bay area home and is threatening nearby homes. Homeowner Susan Minutillo says she returned from running errands Wednesday afternoon to find half of her house...
PURE Introduces Flood Insurance Product for High-Value Homeowners
Jun 19 2012 // As Hurricane Season begins, Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) has launched a flood coverage suite to owners of well-built, high-value homes across most of the United States. PURE Flood Solutions is a...
Colorado Wildfire Rages: 189 Homes Destroyed
Jun 18 2012 // Another eight structures burned in the High Park Fire in Colorado overnight, bringing the tally to 189 homes burned and making it the most destructive fire in the state’s history, officials said on Monday. No...
Colorado Wildfire Burns Most Homes in State History
Jun 18 2012 // A wildfire in northern has scorched about 85 square miles of forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history. The destructiveness of the High Park Fire burning 15 miles west of Fort Collins...
Farm Mutual Insurance Co. Under Montana Supervision
Jun 18 2012 // Montana’s insurance commissioner has placed Great Falls-based Westland Farm Mutual Insurance Co. under her office’s supervision, citing the company’s diminishing cash reserves. Commissioner of Securities...
The Next New Thing
Jun 18 2012 // Coverage Issues from Fracking Claims Every few years there are predictions of a new type of claim that threatens to engulf carriers. In the 1980s and 1990s it was environmental clean up claims and SuperFund, followed...
Habitat to Build Homes for Tornado Victims
Jun 18 2012 // Habitat for Humanity is planning to build nine houses in Indiana for residents displaced by tornadoes. Madison’s local planning commission recommended that the city council rezone 1.25 acres of former city property...
Deductible Reminder
Jun 18 2012 // Eighteen coastal states permit insurers to use hurricane deductibles in their homeowners policies. But the Insurance Information Institute is concerned insureds may not see them even though they are clearly listed on their...
