Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Progressive Insurance Acquiring Homeowners Group ASI for $875M
Dec 16 2014 // Auto insurance giant Progressive Insurance is enhancing its homeowners insurance offerings by acquiring controlling interest in a Florida-based group of insurers now selling homeowners, renters, condo, umbrella, flood and...
SBA Loans Impacting Grant Money for Sandy Victims
Dec 15 2014 // When Superstorm Sandy left Denise Erickson’s home with a collapsed foundation, a loan from the Small Business Administration looked like the best deal in town. She got more than $150,000 from the SBA to help fix her...
New York A.G. Announces Aid for Snowstorm Victims
Dec 15 2014 // New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman recently announced several resources for New Yorkers hit by last month’s historic Buffalo snowstorm, including free help for navigating storm-related issues that could...
Louisiana Citizens Insurance Policy Count Down 50% from All-Time High
Dec 15 2014 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Donelon announced that the total policy count for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens), the state’s property insurer of last resort, has dropped by 50 percent from its...
Rebuild Joplin Wraps Up Work After 180 Homes Built
Dec 9 2014 // A building effort that began in response to the devastating May 2011 tornado in Joplin, Mo., has ended after a volunteer organization built and dedicated its 180th home. Rebuild Joplin co-founder Jerrod Hogan said the...
Juror Witnesses Firsthand What the Hail Is Going on in Texas
Dec 8 2014 // Alejandro Stolarski is a United States citizen who emigrated from Mexico. Stolarski resides in Dallas County. Like hundreds of other Dallas County residents each week, Stolarski received a notice in the mail for jury duty....
Louisiana Citizens Insurance Policy Count Down 50% from All-Time High
Dec 8 2014 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that the total policy count for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens), the state’s insurer of last resort, has dropped by 50 percent from its all-time...
Travelers Unit Sued Over Allegedly Manipulated Sandy Report
Dec 7 2014 // A Travelers Cos. unit was sued by two New York homeowners who accused it of using a doctored engineering report to reject much of their claim for flood damage from Hurricane Sandy, making it the third insurer to face such...
Virginia Drywall Victims Get Settlement Checks, but Many Are Still Ruined
Dec 5 2014 // The settlement checks have been arriving without fanfare in the mailboxes of 262 Virginia families whose homes were built with toxic Chinese-made drywall. It’s the first money that many of the families in a...
New York AG Directs Legal Services Providers to Assist Buffalo Residents
Dec 4 2014 // New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman met with local leaders in Buffalo Wednesday and announced that he is making a network of housing counselors and legal services providers available to help area residents...
Chubb Survey: Attic Storage Can Cause Homeowner Grief, Hazards
Dec 4 2014 // Homeowners who don’t pay attention to what’s going on in their attics can face costly damage that can spread throughout their entire home, warns a new survey sponsored by the Chubb Group of Insurance...
10 things to Know About Winter Risk
Dec 1 2014 // Standard homeowners and renters policies cover winter-related disasters such as burst pipes, ice dams and wind damage caused by weight of ice or snow, as well as fire-related losses. Water damage and freezing account for...
2014 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed
Dec 1 2014 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by the companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11...
Removing Barriers to More Private Flood Insurance
Dec 1 2014 // A House Financial Services subcommittee recently held hearing to focus attention on legislation sponsored by two Florida representatives who want to encourage more flood insurance sales by private insurers as an...
Don’t Let Sinkhole Coverage Fall through the Cracks
Nov 26 2014 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Owning a home is one of the largest investments most Americans will ever make and yet few homeowners understand that comprehensive sinkhole coverage is not part of a...
FHA Chief Watt Says Force-Placed Home Insurance Changes ‘Tough’
Nov 24 2014 // The Federal Housing Finance Agency has yet to deliver on changes to a controversial type of homeowners’ insurance even as its director told the Senate Banking Committee last week that it’s making...
When P/C Insurance Carriers Can Cancel: The ‘Underwriting Period’ by State
Nov 21 2014 // Every state extends insurance carriers the right to cancel a newly-written policy during the first days of the policy period. This is commonly known as the new policy “underwriting period.” An underwriting...
Conn. Court: Enfield Homeowner Not Liable in Icy Sidewalk ‘Slip and Fall’ Case
Nov 19 2014 // Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled Monday that property owners can’t be sued for injuries suffered when someone slips on an icy sidewalk in front of their home or business, unless their town has a specific law...
House Subcommittee Renews Call for Private Flood Insurance
Nov 19 2014 // A House Financial Services subcommittee scheduled a hearing for today to focus attention on encouraging flood insurance sold by private insurers as an alternative to policies sold by the National Flood Insurance Program...
Large Agencies More Optimistic About Future Growth: Study
Nov 17 2014 // Optimism over the future growth potential of independent agencies ties closely to the size of the independent agency, with larger agencies feeling more optimistic about future growth than their smaller counterparts,...
