Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mississippi Homeowners Learning How Credit Score Affects Insurance Premium
Feb 5 2010 // Mississippi Gulf Coast policyholders are well aware a hurricane is guaranteed to hike insurance rates, but fewer realize their credit reports also are factored into homeowner and automobile insurance premiums. Consumers...
Agents’ Group: On a Cost per Home Value Basis, Texas Rates Are Down
Feb 2 2010 // Texas insurance agents — want to show your customers that the common perception that homeowners rates in Texas always go up but never come down is false? Look to your agency management system, say educators from the...
Florida’s United Insurance to Expand Into 7 Northeast, Southeast States
Feb 2 2010 // United Property & Casualty Insurance Co. in Florida said it is seeking approval to write homeowners insurance in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina and New Jersey. The...
Homes Evacuated in San Antonio as Retaining Walls Give Way
Jan 26 2010 // A soil shift in northwest San Antonio led to the evacuation of dozens of homes over fears that two retaining walls could collapse near widening gaps. Engineers are trying to try to determine why the soil is giving way,...
Nationwide Seeks 11.7% Homeowner Insurance Increase in Mississippi
Jan 22 2010 // Nationwide Insurance has proposed a 11.7 percent increase in homeowner insurance premiums statewide. The rate request will take effect April 15 unless Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney denies it or has...
North Carolina Court Hears Challenge to Coastal Insurance Rate Hike
Jan 19 2010 // A North Carolina appeals court is weighing whether to freeze or even reverse homeowners’ insurance premiums that soared by up to almost 30 percent along the coast while sliding by a third in counties farthest from...
Only 20% of Oregonians Insured for Earthquake Risks
Jan 19 2010 // Although Oregon is among the states at highest risk for a major earthquake, only about 20 percent of Oregonians have earthquake insurance, according to a Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS)...
Louisiana Citizens Shedding More Homeowners Policies
Jan 19 2010 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., which insures homes and commercial properties shunned by private companies, continues to shed policies. The company’s chief executive officer, John Wortman, said he hopes...
Unusual Cold Spell Imperils Florida Crops, Homes
Jan 13 2010 // Here’s something you don’t often see in this town at the heart of the state’s $9 billion citrus industry: a sign at the public library that says, “ICE! On sidewalk. Be careful!” Growers were...
New York Orders Two Insurers to Reinstate 260 Policies
Jan 10 2010 // The New York State Insurance Department has ordered insurers Homesite Insurance Co. and Security Mutual Insurance Co. to reinstate 260 homeowners’ policies across the state. Regulators say the insurers improperly...
Auto Premiums Decline in Ohio; Homeowners Rates Rise
Jan 10 2010 // The Ohio Department of Insurance reports that auto insurance rates in that state declined for the third consecutive year but homeowners rates have risen slightly. The department based its assessments on data released by...
Texas, Louisiana Homeowners Insurance Pricey; Florida Most Expensive
Jan 10 2010 // Louisiana remains the third most expensive homeowners insurance market in the nation behind Florida and Texas, according to newly released data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The average premium...
HUD Helps Virginia Homeowners with Suspect Drywall
Jan 7 2010 // Some families in Virginia whose homes were built with suspect drywall from China may be eligible for assistance to help rehabilitate their properties. To qualify, families must have insurance through the Federal Housing...
Florida Peninsula to Acquire Home Insurer Edison
Jan 5 2010 // Boca Raton-based Florida Peninsula Holdings has agreed to acquire another Florida property insurer, Edison Insurance Group, including its two subsidiaries, Edison Insurance Co. and Edison Insurance Underwriters. The...
Louisiana Homeowners Insurance Pricey; Texas, Florida More Expensive
Jan 5 2010 // Louisiana remains the third most expensive homeowners insurance market in the nation behind Florida and Texas, according to newly released data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The average premium...
USHT Offering Texas Homeowners Deductible Buy-Back Coverage
Jan 4 2010 // USHT Inc., a managing general agent and surplus lines agency based in Dallas, is now offering a homeowners deductible buy-back policy in Texas. The Texas Homeowners Deductible Buy-Back Policy is a separate policy that is...
Wildfires Destroy Homes in Western Australia
Dec 31 2009 // Wildfires roared across a swath of Western Australia on Wednesday, razing almost 40 homes and sending hundreds of people fleeing for their lives, officials and witnesses said. At least three people were injured. Two major...
Homeowners Average Insurance Premiums Up Slightly in Ohio
Dec 30 2009 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that on average Ohioans paid slightly more for homeowners insurance in 2007 than in 2006, according to a report issued by the National Association of Insurance...
Florida’s Homeowners Choice Assumes 23,000 Policies from Citizens
Dec 29 2009 // State officials have authorized a private Florida insurer to accept 23,000 policies from the state-owned insurer, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Homeowners Choice, Inc. said the assumption of these policies represents a...
17 More Iowa Homeowners Accept Flood Damage Buyouts
Dec 28 2009 // More Cedar Rapids homeowners are accepting buyout offers for their flood-damaged properties. Officials say 17 more homeowners have signed offers to have the city buy their properties, which were heavily damaged in the...
