Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Thunderstorm Leaves Reno Casinos, Homes in Dark
Jul 24 2006 // A severe thunderstorm nailed the Reno area, turning out the lights at casinos and a stadium where former major league slugger Jose Canseco was playing for a minor league team. Friday night’s storm dropped up to 1.5...
La. Commissioner: Regulatory Action Against Allstate Possible
Jul 24 2006 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon is preparing to take legal action against Allstate Insurance Company in a dispute over wind and hail coverage that would affect...
Going after unpaid claims
Jul 24 2006 // Louisiana Recovery Authority is considering going after insurance companies on behalf of homeowners who are having trouble with claims on their storm damaged homes. According to the Associated Press, Louisiana’s...
Coastal communities only halfway ready for a major storm
Jul 24 2006 // Survey finds Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia most prepared Average insured homeowners throughout Gulf and Atlantic coastal communities have taken just half the steps which would best position them to recover...
Mass. Fair Plan to Refile Next Week
Jul 21 2006 // The Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (the Fair Plan) will submit a request for new rates by the end of next week, just under the deadline. Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne M. Bowler...
First Katrina Insurance Trial Set for Closing Arguments
Jul 20 2006 // A federal judge heard closing arguments Wednesday in the first courtroom challenge of the insurance industry’s denial of billions of dollars of homeowners’ claims after Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge...
Vesta Fire and Subsidiaries Headed for Liquidation in Texas
Jul 19 2006 // Vesta Fire Insurance Company (Vesta Fire) and its Texas subsidiary insurance companies have begun issuing notices to agents to cease writing new and renewal insurance business, including homeowners policies for Texas...
Peerless Offers Disaster Planning Guide for Northeast Homeowners
Jul 19 2006 // Peerless Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, is helping its 151,000 homeowner insurance customers throughout the northeast protect their families and homes during hurricane season. A six-page Disaster Planning...
Fla., Miss., S.C. Top Five States in Flood Insurance Growth
Jul 18 2006 // Florida, Mississippi and South Carolina now rank as three of the top five states in the nation in flood insurance policy growth according to data released by the National Flood Insurance Program and FloodSmart. In order,...
Colorado Casualty Offers Policyholders Disaster Planning Guides
Jul 18 2006 // Colorado Casualty, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, is helping its 14,000 homeowner insurance policyholders and homeowners throughout the West and Southwestern states protect their families and homes during wildfire...
Florida Announces Initial Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program Details
Jul 18 2006 // Roof deck attachment, secondary water barriers, roof coverings, brace gable ends, reinforced roof-to-wall connections, opening protection and exterior doors, including garage doors, are included in a two-step process to be...
Commerce Insurance Offers Identity Theft Service to Homeowners
Jul 17 2006 // Commerce Insurance Company has joined with Identity Theft 911 to offer eligible homeowner policyholders identity resolution services to assist them should they fall victim to identity theft. The services Commerce Insurance...
Agent Says He Never Advised Couple Against Buying Flood Insurance
Jul 17 2006 // The agent at the center of a landmark hurricane insurance case on Friday denied telling a policyholder that he didn’t need flood insurance years before Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. denied much of his claim...
La. Authority May Go After Insurance Claims of ‘Road Home’ Participants
Jul 17 2006 // Louisiana’s program to help storm-damaged homeowners rebuild or relocate may take over insurance claims and sue for additional insurance payments on behalf of recipients, a top official with the Louisiana Recovery...
Miss. Trial Could Help Decide Claims from Hurricane Katrina
Jul 12 2006 // Hurricane Katrina left thousands of Gulf Coast homeowners battling their insurance companies. A Mississippi police officer and his wife are the first to take their fight to court. A federal judge on Monday began hearing a...
Sen. Smith Unveils ‘Comprehensive Plan’ to Fix Florida’s Insurance Woes
Jul 11 2006 // Without a real, comprehensive and workable plan, accumulating financial stress could destroy the viability of the Florida’s insurance market and leave millions of Floridians without affordable and reliable insurance...
La. Commissioner Orders Insurers to Extend Hurricane Prescription Period
Jul 11 2006 // Just over a month after he asked insurance companies in his state to voluntarily do so, Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donleon issued Directive 199 mandating that all companies insuring property in Louisiana...
Little Help from La. Lawmakers for Skyrocketing Insurance Costs
Jul 10 2006 // Louisiana homeowners hoping for relief from insurance bills that were boosted by the hurricanes received little help from lawmakers. Legislators lamented, complained and worried about rising insurance costs that could...
Main Street America Launches Three New Homeowners Programs
Jul 10 2006 // Three new homeowners package endorsements, collectively called the Homeowners Elite Program, have been implemented by The Main Street America Group in Jacksonville, Fla. The program consists of platinum, gold and silver...
Reinsurance Poses Dilemma for Mass. Fair Plan and Regulator
Jul 9 2006 // Last summer when the Massachusetts Fair Plan, the state’s involuntary homeowners insurance market, looked into purchasing reinsurance, the premium was about $17.5 million. The plan did not purchase the reinsurance...
