Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Minot, N.D., Residents Trickle Back to Flooded Homes
Jul 8 2011 // Dozens of Minot, N.D., residents returned to their waterlogged homes on July 6 for the first time since the Souris River breached its banks and inundated much of the city last month, where some cried, overwhelmed by the...
West Virginia Receives Funds to Demolish Flood-Prone Homes
Jul 8 2011 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded $1.2 million to West Virginia’s Wayne County to acquire and tear down flood-prone homes. Rep. Nick Rahall announced the hazard mitigation grant. The West Virginia...
Demolition of Flooded Homes on Iowa Island Begins
Jul 7 2011 // Contractors have started tearing down homes damaged in 2008 by flooding on San Souci Island in Waterloo, Iowa. Twenty houses in the island were turned over to the city in a $4 million buyout program authorized by the...
North Carolina Wildfire Spreads; Homeowners Evacuate
Jul 6 2011 // Ten homes have been evacuated and three destroyed by a wildfire in Bladen County that has nearly doubled in size over the past three days, fire officials said Tuesday. State Forest Service spokesman Chris Meggs said a...
Alabama Governor Vows Tornado, Home Insurance Help
Jul 4 2011 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said he’s not looking to the Federal Emergency Management Agency or anyone else to lead the state’s recovery. “Just like I have taken the leadership role in the disaster,...
Home Schooling
Jul 4 2011 // Homeowners in states hit hard by this spring’s tornadoes have some of the highest average insurance premiums. Louisiana’s average annual premium is $1,155 and Mississippi’s is $980; in Alabama it’s...
Calif. Homeowners Underinsurance Face Challenges
Jul 4 2011 // A series of new California homeowners regulations aimed at enhancing the standards and training for estimating the replacement value on homeowners’ insurance took effect on June 27. Meanwhile, two insurance trade...
Florida Officials Fret Over Home Insurance Assessments
Jul 4 2011 // Two weeks into a new hurricane season, Florida officials are continuing to express their concerns over possible policyholder assessments by Citizens Property Insurance despite the relative financial strength of the...
Hawaii Regulator Orders Homeowners Insurers to File New Rates
Jul 1 2011 // Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Gordon I. Ito has ordered all homeowner insurers to submit new rate filings after a Insurance Division review found that rates were “excessive” when compared to National...
Kuchta Joins Texas-based Homeowners of America Insurance
Jul 1 2011 // Homeowners of America Insurance Co., based in Irving, Texas, has added Heidi Kuchta as sales representative for the Fort Worth area. Kuchta has more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry. Her experience...
Florida’s Homeowners Choice Names Patel as New CEO
Jul 1 2011 // Homeowners Choice, a Florida-based provider of homeowners’ insurance, has named a familiar executive to be its new chief executive officer. The insurers’ board of directors announced that Paresh Patel, board...
North Carolina Wildfire Threatens Homes
Jun 30 2011 // North Carolina officials said a wildfire in Pender County has grown to nearly 30,000 acres and poses a danger to more than 2,000 homes. On Wednesday forecasters said they expected wind shifts to push smoke from the fire...
Allstate Seeks Double-Digit Home Insurance Hikes in Florida
Jun 28 2011 // Two subsidiaries of Allstate Insurance Company Florida are seeking homeowners rate increases worth more than $90 million. Castle Key Indemnity Co. is seeking a 36 percent statewide average rate increase and Castle Key...
Esurance, Security First to Sell Homeowners Insurance in Florida
Jun 28 2011 // Esurance, the online car insurance company, said that it is partnering with Security First Insurance Co. as an underwriter to offer homeowners insurance in Florida. The move comes a little more than a month after Allstate...
Calif. Homeowners Underinsurance Regs Take Effect, Despite Legal Challenges
Jun 28 2011 // A series of new California homeowners regulations aimed at enhancing the standards and training for estimating the replacement value on homeowners’ insurance in the event of a disaster took effect on June 27....
Homeowners, City at Odds Over Flood Buyout Program in Oklahoma
Jun 27 2011 // Owners of homes in a Muskogee, Okla., subdivision want the city to give them fair market compensation for their homes as part of a flood-buyout program. But the city says it doesn’t have the money to match federal...
Oklahoma Wildfire That Destroyed 13 Homes Under Control, Residents Return
Jun 27 2011 // A massive wildfire that destroyed 13 homes the Medicine Park, Okla., area was contained on June 25, allowing residents to return to their homes. Firefighters from a few local agencies remained on the scene to mop up hot...
Flooding Damages Thousands of North Dakota Homes
Jun 27 2011 // The Souris River crested nearly 2 feet lower than expected in Minot, N.D., where city officials hoped to ride out the high water without losing more than the thousands of homes already damaged by flooding. The river had...
New Zealand Offers to Pay 5,000 to Leave Quake-Hit Homes
Jun 24 2011 // New Zealand’s government said that it will offer to pay thousands of homeowners to leave areas of the country’s second-largest city that were hardest hit by recent earthquakes. Christchurch was struck by a...
State Farm Wants 8% Homeowners Rate Increase in Louisiana
Jun 22 2011 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co., Louisiana’s largest insurer of homes, is asking state insurance regulators for permission to boost premiums by an average 8.5 percent. In a filing released by the state insurance...
