Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Home Insurers to Appeal Rate Denial
Jan 20 2015 // Insurance companies aren’t giving up on their quest to raise premiumson North Carolina homeowners by an average of 25 percent, according to an industry spokesman. The group representing nearly 100 companies selling...
RSA Appointed to Underwrite Cavere Home Insurance Product
Jan 12 2015 // London-based RSA announced its appointment as the sole underwriter for Cavere Home insurance products which will be available to brokers from January 2015 via Cavere’s Magenta platform, which provides online quotes...
Citizens Drops Limits on High-Value Homes
Jan 12 2015 // Florida’s state-backed property insurer is lowering the amount of coverage it provides for high-value properties from $1 million to $900,000, per a 2013 law change. Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is implementing...
North Carolina Home Insurers Weigh Appeal of Rate Denial
Jan 12 2015 // North Carolina property insurers are on hold while the industry-backed rating agency contemplates whether to appeal a decision by regulators denying a proposed 25.3 percent rate increase. The North Carolina Rate Bureau...
Nebraska Court Agrees with Insurer on Denial of Dog Bite Coverage
Jan 12 2015 // A woman who had part of her lower lip bitten off by a dog she was watching for friends has no right to seek payment of medical expenses from the owners’ home insurance company, the Nebraska Supreme Court...
Personal Auto Rates Rose 2.1%, Homeowners 3.5% in 2014: RateWatch
Jan 12 2015 // Personal auto insurance companies increased their rates by an average of 2.1 percent countrywide in 2014, according to insurance consulting firm Perr & Knight’s RateWatch reports. The three states with the...
Anger Remains Over Pace of New Jersey’s Sandy Recovery
Jan 7 2015 // More than two years after Superstorm Sandy hit the Jersey Shore, many residents remain angry and frustrated at the pace of recovery. During a public hearing Tuesday on the state’s plans to use the final $502 million...
No State Mandate to Shovel Sidewalks in Ohio, but Local Laws May Require It
Jan 7 2015 // As far as Ohio state law goes, homeowners don’t have a legal obligation to shovel sidewalks due to a natural accumulation of snow and ice, but this doesn’t mean they shouldn’t at least try to maintain...
North Carolina Home Insurers Weigh Appeal of Rate Denial
Jan 7 2015 // North Carolina property insurers are on hold while the industry rating agency contemplates whether to appeal a decision by regulators denying a proposed 25.3 percent rate increase. The North Carolina Rate Bureau made the...
Lighthouse Property Names Stewart as North Carolina Rep
Jan 6 2015 // Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. has appointed Bill Stewart as its marketing representative for North Carolina. Stewart brings 16 years of insurance industry experience to Lighthouse. Before joining the Lighthouse team,...
New Louisiana DOI Website Aims to Help Consumers Shop for Rates, Agents
Jan 5 2015 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) has launched a new website aimed at providing improved services to consumers, insurance agents and other groups regulated by the department. According to the department’s...
Personal Auto Rates Rose 2.1%, Homeowners 3.5% in 2014: RateWatch
Dec 30 2014 // Personal auto insurance companies increased their rates by an average of 2.1 percent countrywide in 2014, according to insurance consulting firm Perr & Knight’s RateWatch reports. The three states with the...
Louisiana Auditor: Work Needed Still on Tracking Hurricane Aid
Dec 29 2014 // Louisiana has a long way to go to make sure that more than a billion dollars in housing aid has been used properly by the thousands of people who got federal help from the catastrophic 2005 hurricane season, according to a...
Insurers Dogged by Claims of Slanted Sandy Reports
Dec 28 2014 // When Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast, flood insurance companies working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency dispatched an army of structural engineers to do some detective work. Their assignment: Find out how...
Florida Floating Home Owner Loses Another Round in Damages Battle
Dec 24 2014 // A South Florida man who two years ago won a U.S. Supreme Court case over the difference between a floating home and a vessel has lost a legal battle against the city of Riviera Beach. A federal jury last week sided with...
New York DFS Requires Ocwen Reforms, $150M Homeowner Help
Dec 23 2014 // New York financial regulators have reached a settlement with Ocwen Financial Corp. requiring the nation’s largest subprime mortgage servicer to reform its practices and provide $150 million to help struggling New...
Homeowners Choice Grabs 36,000 Policies from Florida’s Citizens
Dec 23 2014 // Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Co. Inc. said it has assumed 36,000 policies from Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp., of which an estimated 30,000 are wind-only. The assumptions,...
Nebraska Court: No Insurance Coverage for Woman Bitten by Dog
Dec 22 2014 // A woman who had part of her lower lip bitten off by a dog she was watching for friends has no right to seek payment of medical expenses from the owners’ home insurance company, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled on...
North Carolina Denies Homeowners Insurance Rate Hike
Dec 21 2014 // North Carolina insurance companies that wanted to raise the cost of homeowners coverage by an average of roughly 25 percent were told Friday the state’s regulator is instead approving a zero overall change. Insurance...
UK Government, Insurers Reach Agreement to Establish Flood Re
Dec 18 2014 // The UK’s insurance industry and Government have announced the final agreement securing the development and delivery of Flood Re, described as a “pooled insurance system which will allow even the highest risk...
