Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
La. Senate Adds Homeowner Tax Breaks to $100M Insurance Plan
Jun 27 2007 // If Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco is offering $100 million to insurance companies, then homeowners deserve a $93 million tax break on the premiums they’ve paid since the 2005 hurricanes, the Senate voted June...
Fla. Gov. Launches ‘Shop and Compare Insurance Rates’ Web Site
Jun 26 2007 // Gov. Charlie Crist launched “Shop and Compare Rates” today, a Web site that assists consumers comparing homeowners insurance rates throughout Florida. “Many Florida homeowners find it difficult and...
State Farm Announces Rate Decrease for W. Va. Homeowners
Jun 25 2007 // Just weeks after announcing an automobile insurance rate decrease, State Farm Insurance, the largest insurance provider in West Virginia, says it also will lower rates statewide for home insurance. The average West...
Calif. Reports Most Agricultural Freeze Claims Settled
Jun 21 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner says most of the farmers affected by the January 2007 freeze have had their crop insurance claims settled, following his meeting with Fresno-area agricultural leaders...
Wildfire Burns on Colorado’s Western Slope
Jun 21 2007 // The New Castle Fire burning near Glenwood Springs, Colo., has forced the evacuation of about 90 homes with another 100 on high alert, according to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association. In light of the fire,...
La. Commissioner Wants 100% Participation in Flood Insurance Program
Jun 21 2007 // For Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon in the best of all possible worlds 100 percent of the citizens in his state would have flood insurance coverage for their homes. As such, Donelon has been on a statewide...
Survey: Inlanders Oppose Subsidies for Risky Drivers, Coastal Homes
Jun 20 2007 // A new survey is reporting that 80 percent of drivers and 64 percent of homeowners in non-coastal areas in two states disagree with state insurance pricing regulations that benefit risky drivers and homeowners in high-risk...
More Arizonans Working to Protect Homes from Wildfires
Jun 19 2007 // Efforts to better safeguard homes from the threat of wildfire have taken off in mountain communities throughout Arizona, with homeowners cutting down trees, removing wood piles, raking leaves and caulking around windows to...
News Currents
Jun 18 2007 // R.I. House members forward coastal measures The leaders of a special Rhode Island House commission studying the effects of natural disasters on property insurance costs have introduced legislation they say is aimed at...
Editor’s Note: Consumer education still needed
Jun 18 2007 // An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. — Anatole France (1844 –...
Declarations
Jun 18 2007 // Declarations Camera, lights, action “In addition to improvements in economic and political conditions, a number of countries are developing into attractive film locales.” — Chris Palmer, director of risk...
Figures
Jun 18 2007 // 3 Million A new survey by Trusted Choice and the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America found that nearly three million households have lost their homeowners coverage since 2003, and most homeowners have...
Editor’s Note: Consumer education still needed
Jun 18 2007 // An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. — Anatole France (1844 –...
Consumers not informed about homeowners insurance, study says
Jun 18 2007 // A large percentage of U.S. homeowners mistakenly believe that standard homeowners insurance protects them from an array of perils, according to research by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which...
News Currents
Jun 18 2007 // Group challenges Fireman’s Fund’s earthquake rates Consumer advocates have filed a challenge to block a proposed 25 percent increase in Fireman’s Fund’s earthquake rates in California, a move that...
UK Bank Barclays to Challenge Homeowners 2-Year Renewal Quotes
Jun 12 2007 // Bancassurance in the UK has gotten increasingly competitive with standard policies, and it looks set to continue. Barclay’s, one of the UK’s largest banking groups announced that it would offer homeowners...
Harleysville Insures Families’ ‘Extreme Makeover’ Homes…for Free
Jun 8 2007 // For the next year, the Oatman-Gaitan family of Schenectady, N.Y., will not have the financial burden of paying for homeowners insurance. That’s because Harleysville Insurance, a regional property/casualty insurer...
U.S. Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Katrina Levee Lawsuits
Jun 8 2007 // A U.S. appeals court judge promised a swift ruling in a case pitting New Orleans homeowners against insurance companies for their refusal to cover damage from the failure of levees in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath in...
Plans to Shrink La. Citizens Insurance Move to House Floor
Jun 7 2007 // A Louisiana House of Representatives committee recently approved two proposals to reduce the number of homeowners insurance policies written by the state-backed company known as the “insurer of last...
Consumer Group Challenges Fireman’s Fund’s Calif. Earthquake Rates
Jun 6 2007 // Consumer advocates have filed a challenge to block a proposed 25 percent increase in Fireman’s Fund’s earthquake insurance rates in a move that they say could save each of the company’s earthquake...
