Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Legislation Could Help S.C. Coastal Residents with Insurance
May 10 2007 // Residents on the South Carolina coast could see home insurance costs drop with a bill that received key approval Tuesday in the House. The legislation is part of Insurance Director Scott Richardson’s response to...
Kansas Residents Evacuate Homes as Water Levels Rise
May 10 2007 // Small creeks and broad rivers swollen by heavy rain topped their banks in much of Kansas on this week, forcing residents from their homes in scattered parts of the state. Flooding along the Wakarusa River cut off its...
Insurers Encourage Texas Consumers to Consider Flood Insurance
May 8 2007 // Recent severe weather in Texas has prompted the Southwestern Insurance Information Service, an insurance trade group, to remind consumers that damage to their homes resulting from flooding is not covered by the standard...
Fla. CFO Praises Lawmakers for Mitigation Program Legislation
May 4 2007 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink applauded the Legislature’s passage of HB 7057, which makes improvements to the state’s My Safe Florida Home program. HB 7057 was sponsored by State Representatives...
Report: N.C. Kids Suffer from Unsafe Homes
May 4 2007 // Unsafe housing in North Carolina is leaving children with myriad injuries, including broken limbs from falling through rotten floors and asthma from breathing air contaminated by roach and ant droppings, according to a new...
La. Gov. Pitches $100M Insurance Plan
May 1 2007 // With Louisiana’s hurricane recovery stymied in part by skyrocketing property insurance rates, Gov. Kathleen Blanco has a plan to ease the problem: Offer insurance companies $100 million in incentives. But in an...
La. Lawmaker Wants AG’s Opinion on Gov.’s Insurance Incentive Plan
Apr 27 2007 // A lawmaker from Acadiana has asked Louisiana’s attorney general to determine the constitutionality of Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s plan to grant up to $100 million in state money to private insurance...
Mass. to Hear FAIR Plan Bid for 13% Statewide, 25% Cape Rate Hike
Apr 26 2007 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes has scheduled a public hearing for April 27, to consider a rate increase for the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association, also known as the FAIR...
Fla. Homeowners Air Grievances over Taxes, Insurance
Apr 26 2007 // Jeanette Waddle is frustrated with rising property taxes and unaffordable insurance rates, and she let Fla.’s Gov. Charlie Crist hear about it Tuesday night during a town hall forum. The mother of three is married to...
My Safe Fla. Home Program Addressing Waiting List of Homeowners
Apr 25 2007 // My Safe Florida Home — a state-funded windstorm mitigation initiative — is vowing to take care of the more than 50,000 homeowners on its pilot program waiting list for services and begin accepting new requests for free...
News Currents
Apr 23 2007 // Maryland agents get notice relief Maryland insurance agents are applauding the General Assembly for relieving them of liability in the delivery of notices about flood and homeowners insurance. The Senate and House of...
News Currents
Apr 23 2007 // Katrina homeowners’ lawyers cite e-mails as proof against State Farm E-mails sent by officials of an engineering firm that assessed Hurricane Katrina claims suggest that State Farm Insurance Co. wanted engineers to...
News Currents
Apr 23 2007 // Katrina homeowners’ lawyers claim e-mails as evidence E-mails sent by officials of an engineering firm that assessed Hurricane Katrina claims suggest that State Farm Insurance Co. wanted engineers to blame damage on...
Allstate Wins 29% Rate Hike in Miss.; Resumes Coastal Writings
Apr 20 2007 // Homeowners on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast face another insurance rate hike in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. Mississippi insurance regulators this week approved a statewide rate increase of 29 percent for Allstate...
N.O. Jury may Consider Whether Katrina Claim was Misrepresented
Apr 16 2007 // Jurors may consider whether a Slidell couple misrepresented part of their claim, possibly voiding the whole homeowner policy, when they decide Louisiana’s second Hurricane Katrina insurance trial against Allstate...
Military Insurer USAA Restricts New Business in Florida
Apr 13 2007 // Effective immediately, military personnel insurer USAA said it will “significantly restrict” the number of new homeowner, fire, and renter insurance policies it sells in Florida. USAA will only sell new...
Wind or Water? Victims Got Conflicting Info on What Caused Damage
Apr 13 2007 // A man who sued Allstate Insurance Co. after losing his home to Hurricane Katrina lashed out April 11 at the insurance industry’s position that damage from a hurricane’s storm surge is excluded from homeowner...
Lawyers: E-mails Help Them Prove Homeowners’ Katrina Cases
Apr 12 2007 // E-mails sent by officials of an engineering firm that assessed Hurricane Katrina claims suggest that State Farm Insurance Co. wanted engineers to blame damage on flooding so that it could make minimum settlements with...
Industry to Congress: Private Market Is the Best Solution on Natural Disasters, But Some Say Federal Help Needed
Apr 11 2007 // The private insurance marketplace, not the federal government, is the best vehicle to address coastal insurance issues and natural disasters in the U.S., according to insurers. Even so, the federal government can play a...
Jury Selection Begins in La. Hurricane Lawsuit Against Allstate
Apr 10 2007 // After Hurricane Katrina demolished Robert and Merryl Weiss’ New Orleans-area home, they were paid hundred of thousands of dollars by their insurance company. But they say it isn’t enough. Jury selection began...
