Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Floridians Await Chinese Drywall Settlement Monies
Jul 21 2011 // Florida residents whose homes were built by inferior Chinese drywall stand to gain a total of $55 million, but no one can say right now how much any individual homeowner might actually collect. A federal judge approved a...
Post-Loss Assignments of Claims Under Insurance Policies
Jul 18 2011 // In the settlement of lawsuits involving insured claims, it is not uncommon that one condition of the settlement is that the defendant assign his or her claims under all applicable insurance policies to the party that filed...
Hawaii Regulator Orders Homeowners Insurers to File New Rates
Jul 18 2011 // Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Gordon I. Ito has ordered all homeowner insurers to submit new rate filings after a Insurance Division review found that rates were “excessive” when compared to National...
Risky Decisions
Jul 18 2011 // All the devastation from natural disasters that have occurred across the nation in recent months illuminates the fact that many, many homes across the United States are either uninsured or underinsured. Violent weather,...
Oklahoma Lawmaker Promotes Program for Distressed Homeowners
Jul 14 2011 // The clock is ticking on a federal program designed to assist distressed homeowners who have experienced a drop in income of at least 15 percent directly resulting from involuntary unemployment or underemployment due to...
PURE to Offer High-Value Homeowner Coverage in Michigan
Jul 13 2011 // Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE), a member-owned reciprocal insurer, has expanded to offer property and casualty insurance coverage to owners of high-value homes in Michigan. Benefits include $50,000 of...
Pennsylvania Homeowners Sue Gas Driller over Water Well
Jul 13 2011 // A western Pennsylvania couple has sued a natural gas driller claiming its activities contaminated their water well. The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat reports that Chester and Edith Slesinger are suing T&F Exploration LP...
Minot, N.D., Residents Trickle Back to Flooded Homes
Jul 8 2011 // Dozens of Minot, N.D., residents returned to their waterlogged homes on July 6 for the first time since the Souris River breached its banks and inundated much of the city last month, where some cried, overwhelmed by the...
West Virginia Receives Funds to Demolish Flood-Prone Homes
Jul 8 2011 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded $1.2 million to West Virginia’s Wayne County to acquire and tear down flood-prone homes. Rep. Nick Rahall announced the hazard mitigation grant. The West Virginia...
Demolition of Flooded Homes on Iowa Island Begins
Jul 7 2011 // Contractors have started tearing down homes damaged in 2008 by flooding on San Souci Island in Waterloo, Iowa. Twenty houses in the island were turned over to the city in a $4 million buyout program authorized by the...
North Carolina Wildfire Spreads; Homeowners Evacuate
Jul 6 2011 // Ten homes have been evacuated and three destroyed by a wildfire in Bladen County that has nearly doubled in size over the past three days, fire officials said Tuesday. State Forest Service spokesman Chris Meggs said a...
Alabama Governor Vows Tornado, Home Insurance Help
Jul 4 2011 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said he’s not looking to the Federal Emergency Management Agency or anyone else to lead the state’s recovery. “Just like I have taken the leadership role in the disaster,...
Home Schooling
Jul 4 2011 // Homeowners in states hit hard by this spring’s tornadoes have some of the highest average insurance premiums. Louisiana’s average annual premium is $1,155 and Mississippi’s is $980; in Alabama it’s...
Calif. Homeowners Underinsurance Face Challenges
Jul 4 2011 // A series of new California homeowners regulations aimed at enhancing the standards and training for estimating the replacement value on homeowners’ insurance took effect on June 27. Meanwhile, two insurance trade...
Florida Officials Fret Over Home Insurance Assessments
Jul 4 2011 // Two weeks into a new hurricane season, Florida officials are continuing to express their concerns over possible policyholder assessments by Citizens Property Insurance despite the relative financial strength of the...
Hawaii Regulator Orders Homeowners Insurers to File New Rates
Jul 1 2011 // Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Gordon I. Ito has ordered all homeowner insurers to submit new rate filings after a Insurance Division review found that rates were “excessive” when compared to National...
Kuchta Joins Texas-based Homeowners of America Insurance
Jul 1 2011 // Homeowners of America Insurance Co., based in Irving, Texas, has added Heidi Kuchta as sales representative for the Fort Worth area. Kuchta has more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry. Her experience...
Florida’s Homeowners Choice Names Patel as New CEO
Jul 1 2011 // Homeowners Choice, a Florida-based provider of homeowners’ insurance, has named a familiar executive to be its new chief executive officer. The insurers’ board of directors announced that Paresh Patel, board...
North Carolina Wildfire Threatens Homes
Jun 30 2011 // North Carolina officials said a wildfire in Pender County has grown to nearly 30,000 acres and poses a danger to more than 2,000 homes. On Wednesday forecasters said they expected wind shifts to push smoke from the fire...
Allstate Seeks Double-Digit Home Insurance Hikes in Florida
Jun 28 2011 // Two subsidiaries of Allstate Insurance Company Florida are seeking homeowners rate increases worth more than $90 million. Castle Key Indemnity Co. is seeking a 36 percent statewide average rate increase and Castle Key...
