Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Homeowners Coverage
Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Service Group Inc. introduced a homeowners’ insurance program designed to meet the changing coverage needs of families over their lifetime. Highlights of The Hartford’s...
S.C. Homeowners’ Flex Rating Bill Gets House Backing
Jul 5 2004 // Southeast News • May 28, 2004 Kudos to Ernie and South Carolina for their progressive thinking. Louisiana passed a 10% Flexband for ALL lines last year. Hopefully it will bring carriers back to our State. Congrats to...
Homeowners Coverage
Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Service Group Inc. introduced a homeowners’ insurance program designed to meet the changing coverage needs of families over their lifetime. Highlights of The Hartford’s...
High Valued Homes
Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade/Amstar is offering a new High Valued Homes: HO3 program. Dollars: $2.5 million in house authority, higher limits available on a submitted basis and a minimum deductible of $1,000. Carrier: Lloyds...
S.C. Homeowners’ Flex Rating Bill Gets House Backing
Jul 5 2004 // Southeast News • May 28, 2004 Kudos to Ernie and South Carolina for their progressive thinking. Louisiana passed a 10 percent Flexband for ALL lines last year. Hopefully it will bring carriers back to our State. Congrats...
ACIC: Consumers Benefit From Committee Action
Jun 24 2004 // Action taken by the Assembly Insurance Committee on pending homeowner insurance bills will benefit consumers in California, according to the Association of California Insurance Companies. “Consumers are best served...
MAINE LIST AIDS HOMEOWNERS:
Jun 21 2004 // Maine Superintendent of Insurance Alessandro A. Iuppa has compiled an online list of 39 property and casualty insurance companies that have indicated a willingness to consider insuring certain types of risks in the...
Homeowners
Jun 21 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Service Group Inc. introduced a homeowners’ insurance program designed to meet the changing coverage needs of families over their lifetime. Highlights of the Hartford’s...
South Carolina Lawmakers Back Homeowners’ Flex-band Rating
Jun 21 2004 // Concurring with a series of House amendments, the South Carolina State Senate approved a bill recently that creates a flex-band rating bill for homeowners’ insurance, similar to that enacted for the state’s...
ALLSTATE STUDY WARNS ON COASTAL FLOODS:
Jun 21 2004 // Allstate Insurance Company said a study it conducted in 2003 identified more than 750,000 homes in coastal hurricane states that may not have flood insurance. The study looked at current Allstate homeowners insurance...
The Truth About Texas’ Homeowners Insurance Industry
Jun 21 2004 // Due to recent reforms the Texas insurance market is stabilizing and loss ratios in Texas are better. But while things are better, conditions are far from first-rate for insurance companies. There have been no real signs of...
Fire Insurance Bills Advance In Calif. Legislature
Jun 18 2004 // Prompted by last year’s devastating firestorms, insurance-related bills that would help future disaster victims are gaining momentum as they move through the Legislature, reports the Association of California...
Texas Lt. Governor Says Rates Should Fall Faster
Jun 17 2004 // Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst has reportedly taken State Farm and Farmers to task for not lowering their homeowners rates in the state at a faster pace and contesting the decreases in court. A report in the Houston...
W. Va. Lawmakers Study Home Insurance Costs
Jun 16 2004 // At least one insurance company tends to charge West Virginians more to cover their homes than residents in surrounding states, even when its losses are greater in the other states, according to a presentation given to...
Colorado Hail Damage Approaches $150 Million
Jun 14 2004 // Based on the number of claims filed so far, the insurance industry estimates that the June 8-9 hailstorms that pummeled areas from Lakewood to Golden will result in nearly 48,000 claims totaling $146.5 million in insured...
ACE Select Markets Gives “Top Ten” Disaster Protection Tips for Homeowners
Jun 11 2004 // ACE Select Markets has published a list of its “Top Ten Tips” for homeowners on what to do to prevent and/or mitigate the consequences when a natural disaster strikes. “Devastating floods in the United...
Striving for Balance in Louisiana as Reform Efforts Continue
Jun 9 2004 // Insurance and tort reform measures passed by the Louisiana Legislature in 2003, along with efforts by the insurance department and two major insurance agents’ associations to get the word out about the state’s...
FLORIDA CFO APPLAUDS LAWMAKERS FOR APPROVING LEGISLATION TO INCREASE AVAILABILITY OF HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE:
Jun 7 2004 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher commended state lawmakers for approving legislation, Senate Bill 2488, that will increase the availability of homeowners insurance through changes to the Florida’s...
Regional Focus
Jun 7 2004 // Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill was attributed with the comment that “all politics are local.” The same could be said for the insurance industry—insurance coverage is definitely local. In...
Garamendi’s Homeowners’ Bill of Rights Moves Ahead
Jun 7 2004 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s “Homeowners’ Bill of Rights” package is continuing to move through the California State Legislature. The four main measures have all moved out of...
