Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida Senate’s Insurance Fix Hinges on Changes to Citizens
Apr 10 2006 // Owners of homes worth more than $1 million could continue to get hurricane coverage from state-run Citizens Property Insurance until 2011, but would pay a 25 percent surcharge for their coverage under a measure approved...
Consumer Group’s Report Proposes Take-Over of Fla. Wind Coverage
Apr 10 2006 // New York-based Americans for Insurance Reform has released a report calling for the complete removal of the private sector from the hurricane insurance business in Florida. AIR has called on Florida’s Legislature to...
Texas AG Halts Father/Son Real Estate Scam Against Homeowners
Apr 10 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced he has filed a court action to stop an El Paso, Texas, father and his two sons who operate an unlicensed “real estate” business from illegally taking earnest money...
Insurers Refute Reports on Canada’s Home, Auto Policy Prices
Apr 9 2006 // Canada’s home, car and business insurers have countered recent reports suggesting that the cost of homeowner’s insurance in New Brunswick is rising. The industry’s attempt to set the record straight about...
Fla. Senate Looks for Ways to Solve Property Insurance Problems
Apr 7 2006 // With thousands of Floridians reeling from huge property insurance premium spikes as yet another hurricane season approaches, a Senate panel began discussion Wednesday of ways to fix what many say is a broken hurricane...
Cleanup Begins After Storms Demolish Scores of Ark. Homes
Apr 5 2006 // Cheryl Ward stood next to her demolished house in Marmaduke, Ark., and put things in perspective. “None of this means anything when you’ve got one kid and your kid is safe,” she said. Nearly two-thirds of...
New Orleans Residents Await Guidance on Flood Zones
Apr 4 2006 // Audrey Celistan desperately wants to return to New Orleans and rebuild the three-bedroom brick house she lived in for 42 years before Hurricane Katrina drowned it in more than 10 feet (3 meters) of muddy water. Lucky for...
Fire Near Rocky Flats Evacuates 135 Homes
Apr 4 2006 // Blown by winds gusting to 50 miles per hour, a grass fire spread across an estimated 1,600 acres and forced the evacuation of 135 homes Sunday near the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado. The fire was...
Insurers Well-Braced for Next Big California Earthquake
Apr 3 2006 // When the next big earthquake strikes California, it’s unlikely to hurt the insurance industry as much as the last one did. The nation’s largest property insurers curtailed their exposure to California quakes a...
Hurricane Fatigue
Apr 3 2006 // While homeowners and businesses can physically pickup the pieces following a natural disaster, mending the hearts and minds of those in the field is not so easy. Four industry CEOs recently described the emotional impact...
Officials hope ’06 quake centennial prompts more to get insurance
Apr 3 2006 // When San Francisco resident Charlie Bott got an offer in the mail recently for earthquake insurance, he stared long and hard at the bottom line. Then he threw it away. “It was way beyond anything you pay for house...
Katrina not enough to cause many homeowners to buy flood coverage
Apr 3 2006 // Despite Hurricane Katrina’s devastation, a new survey says that most Americans are not very concerned about buying flood insurance for their homes. Only 14 percent of Americans say they have purchased flood insurance...
Poe/Southern Family changes Fla. underwriting
Apr 3 2006 // News Currents Poe Financial Group has notified Florida agents for thousands of policyholders that its South-ern Family Insurance Company will no longer renew or insure new homeowner or commercial lines business. The...
Texas insurers see profits despite Hurricane Rita
Apr 3 2006 // Texas home insurers turned substantial profits last year despite Hurricane Rita’s destruction, prompting state regulators to question whether some companies’ rates are too high, the Associated Press...
Homeowners – Texas
Apr 3 2006 // New Markets Nuts & Bolts: Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc., based in San Diego, Calif., is rolling out a new homeowners program in Texas. Coverage highlights in-clude: Specified additional amount of...
Editor’s Note: Hurricane Fatigue
Apr 3 2006 // While homeowners and businesses can physically pickup the pieces following a natural disaster, mending the hearts and minds of those in the field is not so easy. Four industry CEOs recently described the emotional impact...
Katrina not enough to cause many homeowners to buy flood coverage
Apr 3 2006 // Despite Hurricane Katrina’s devastation, a new survey says that most Americans are not very concerned about buying flood insurance for their homes. Only 14 percent of Americans say they have purchased flood insurance...
Spotlight: Catastrophic Coverage
Apr 3 2006 // Ruins of San Francisco’s city hall after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Photo courtesy of Fireman’s Fund. San Francisco street scene after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Photo courtesy of Fireman’s...
Insurer Group Offers Flood Protection Tips for Texas Homeowners
Mar 28 2006 // As part of its ongoing consumer education campaign, the Texas Coalition for Affordable Insurance Solutions is reminding homeowners to protect themselves during the spring flood season. Noting that floods often happen fast...
Florida Lists How to Obtain Wind Insurance Incentives
Mar 28 2006 // Tips about how to obtain wind insurance incentives have been issued by the Florida Department of Financial Services on the department’s website. According to DFS, Floridians may be entitled to discounts on insurance...
