Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Agents Creating At-Home Insurance Jobs for Disabled Veterans
Jan 23 2012 // For insurance agents Gary Trippe and Jim Pender, the idea for DVIC, or Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers, which aims to provide disabled veterans with employment in insurance, evolved in part from their own personal...
N.Y. Examines Banks for Force-Placed Insurance
Jan 23 2012 // New York financial regulators are reportedly investigating several major banks to find out whether they fraudulently steered homeowners into more expensive home insurance. According to The New York Times, the office of...
Texas Tornadoes Hit Homes, Mall
Jan 23 2012 // Forecasters say two tornados hit the Houston area during early January thunderstorms that flooded roads and knocked out power. The National Weather Service said a tornado with 95 mph winds touched down on Jan. 9 in Mission...
Report: Louisiana Homeowners Insurance Rates Rising More Slowly
Jan 16 2012 // Homeowners insurance premiums in Louisiana remain among the nation’s highest, but are rising much more slowly than they did in the first two years after Hurricane Katrina, new data from by the National Association of...
Report: N.Y. Regulators Examine Banks Over Force-Placed Home Insurance
Jan 11 2012 // New York financial regulators are reportedly investigating several major banks to find out whether they fraudulently steered homeowners into more expensive home insurance. According to The New York Times, the office of...
South Carolina Judge Grants Initial OK for Class Action Over Sun City Homes
Jan 10 2012 // A South Carolina judge has granted preliminary class-action status to lawsuits alleging defective stucco work on homes in Sun City Hilton Head. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reported that Judge J. Michael Baxley issued...
More Louisiana Property Owners Move to Private Insurers
Jan 9 2012 // Fresh data shows Louisiana’s insurer of last resort keeps churning away on getting private insurers to pick up policyholders, a problem largely stemming from the 2005 hurricanes. For policyholders of Louisiana...
North Carolina Cuts Dwelling Fire Rates
Jan 9 2012 // Residents in North Carolina will see a rate decrease for their dwelling fire coverage but no change in the cost of their dwelling extended coverage. North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has ordered a...
Higher Homeowners Insurance Rates on the Horizon in Texas
Jan 9 2012 // Two insurers that together hold the lion’s share of the homeowners insurance market in Texas are either in the process of raising rates or have filed for increases. Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman on Dec. 1,...
State Auto Enters Quota Share Agreement for Homeowners Business
Jan 5 2012 // State Auto Financial Corp., based in Columbus, Ohio, announced that the State Auto Group has entered into a quota share reinsurance agreement with a syndicate of reinsurers covering its homeowners book of business. The...
Fatal Connecticut Fire Reminds Homeowners of Ash Dangers
Jan 3 2012 // Fire safety officials are warning homeowners about the dangers of fireplace ashes after a Christmas morning blaze that killed five people in Connecticut. Authorities say the fire in Stamford was caused by a bag of...
Connecticut Health Officials Urge Homeowners to Test for Radon
Jan 3 2012 // The Connecticut public health department is urging residents to test their homes for radon gas, the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers. Health officials estimate that radon is responsible for more than 21,000 lung...
North Carolina Farm Bureau Weighs Cutback in Homeowners Policies
Dec 29 2011 // One of North Carolina’s largest homeowners’ insurers says it is considering canceling the coverage of up to 70,000 homeowners unless the state Legislature makes changes allowing it to charge higher rates. North...
Central Oklahoma Homes ‘Quaked’ a Bit on Christmas Day
Dec 27 2011 // Some Oklahoma residents may have felt their homes shake on Christmas Day, but it wasn’t because reindeer had landed on the roof. The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 3.3-magnitude quake struck around 8:10 a.m. on...
D.C. Commissioner Recommends Reviewing Policies for Winter Activities
Dec 20 2011 // Washington, D.C.’s top insurance regulator is advising consumers to review their insurance policies and see whether they are covered for common winter activities. William White, commissioner for the District of...
Elderly Michigan Woman Protests High Home Insurance Bill
Dec 19 2011 // An 83-year-old woman in Michigan says she won’t suffer silently after an insurance company raised her bill from $585 to $4,092. Alice LaDuke lately has been standing outside the home office of Auto-Owners Insurance...
Allstate Rates for Texas Homeowners Could Go Up
Dec 19 2011 // Allstate Insurance has asked Texas regulators to allow the company to raise homeowner rates by nearly 10 percent for some customers. Allstate spokesman Joe McCormick told the Dallas Morning News that the industry is...
Pennsylvanians Face Sinkhole Threat, But Many Lack Insurance Coverage
Dec 19 2011 // A U.S. senator is enlisting the help of Pennsylvania insurance commissioner to help protect the Keystone State’s homeowners from sinkhole damages. In a letter to Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine,...
Chinese Drywall Settlement Could Reach $1B
Dec 16 2011 // Owners of thousands of U.S. homes tainted with foul-smelling Chinese drywall agreed to a legal settlement on Thursday with a German manufacturer. An attorney for the plaintiffs, Russ Herman, said the settlement reached...
North Carolina Cuts Dwelling Fire Rates; No Changes in Extended Coverage
Dec 13 2011 // Residents in North Carolina will see a rate decrease when it comes to their dwelling fire coverage while at the same time seeing no change in the cost of their dwelling extended coverage. North Carolina Insurance...
