Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Mercury Insurance Programs Target California Homeowners’ Wildfire Risk
Oct 21 2020 // Mercury Insurance has launched two new programs designed to help Californians better protect their homes and families if they live in areas prone to wildfires. Homeowners who take one or more steps to either harden their...
California Pledges to Protect Homeowners from Insurer Withdrawals Due to Wildfires
Oct 19 2020 // California’s insurance commissioner on Monday pledged to step up efforts to protect the state’s residents from wildfires and address a pullback of private insurers from the state’s riskiest...
Replacement Cost and the 180-Day Limitation Myth
Oct 19 2020 // What’s the best way to launch this article? Don’t know if I should say I’m itching for a fight or if it’s better to say insurance carriers are misinterpreting coverage forms and I am trying to stop...
Should Upcoming California Commissioner’s Hearing on Wildfires Concern Insurers?
Oct 16 2020 // Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara will convene a “virtual investigatory hearing” on Monday to initiate a series of regulatory actions that will protect residents from the increasing risk of wildfires. Several...
Study: Hurricane Irma Led to 400 Senior Deaths in Florida Nursing Homes
Oct 16 2020 // The aftereffects of 2017’s Hurricane Irma appear to have killed more than 400 senior residents of Florida nursing homes, a new university study shows. Researchers at the University of South Florida and Brown...
Fire Erupts, Homes Evacuated in Georgia Train Derailment
Oct 14 2020 // A train derailment in metro Atlanta early Sunday sparked a small fire, created runoff concerns and briefly forced some residents from their homes, a fire official said. The CSX train with about 170 cars, including three...
Progressive Integrates Home Insurance Quoting Into Mortgage Lending Program
Oct 12 2020 // Progressive Insurance is serving home buyers in the digital mortgage process and using information they’ve already entered for their loans to serve up homeowners’ insurance quotes with a single click. Working...
CoreLogic: Nearly 300K Gulf Coast Homes at Possible Risk From Delta
Oct 8 2020 // CoreLogic an Irvine, Calif.-based global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, has released data analysis showing 293,685 single-family and multifamily homes across Louisiana and the U.S....
Florida Homeowners Insurtech TypTap Goes National; Plans Roll-Out in 20 States
Oct 8 2020 // After launching in Florida as a flood insurer in 2016 and expanding into the homeowners market in 2018, TypTap Insurance Co. has officially started the process of becoming a nationwide company. The technology-driven...
Insurance Consumer Advice for Buyers of High-Risk Homes: Liz Weston
Oct 6 2020 // When house hunting, the price of homeowners insurance probably isn’t top of mind. But homes with hidden risks can make getting coverage difficult, expensive or both. Learning how to identify them could save a...
Homeowners Coverage Gaps? Here Are Some ‘Mower’
Oct 5 2020 // In 2018, the Insurance Journal published an article titled “Lawnmower Injuries Remain Source of Serious Injury and High Costs.” A study cited in the article stated each day during the mowing season, about 30...
Gas Leak Leads to Explosion in Iowa, Several Homes Damaged
Sep 30 2020 // Fire officials are blaming a gas leak for an explosion that destroyed one Dubuque, Iowa home and damaged several others. KCRG reports that Chief Rick Steines with the Dubuque Fire Department said a machine struck a gas...
Report: Nearly 2M Homes at Elevated Risk of Wildfire
Sep 30 2020 // Nearly 2 million homes, mostly in the Western U.S., with a rebuilding value of more than $638 billion are at an elevated risk of wildfire damage, a report out today shows. An annual wildfire report from data provider...
Home Insurtech MGA Hippo, Topa Insurance End Their 3-Year Partnership
Sep 23 2020 // Property/casualty insurer Topa Insurance Co. and Hippo Enterprises, a technology-driven managing general agency offering homeowners insurance, announced their mutual decision to end their three-year partnership. The move...
More than 40% of Coronavirus Deaths in Nebraska at Nursing Homes
Sep 22 2020 // More than 40% of the deaths linked to the coronavirus in Nebraska have been at nursing homes, but the overall rate of deaths in the state’s nursing homes has remained relatively low compared with national figures. A...
California Wildfire Threatening More Than 1,000 Homes
Sep 22 2020 // A wildfire burning through brush and timber from the mountains to the desert northeast of Los Angeles threatened more than 1,000 homes on Tuesday as crews across the West battled dozens of other major blazes. The Bobcat...
UK Seeks to Reform How Motor, Home Insurers Treat Loyal Customers
Sep 22 2020 // The Financial Conduct Authority has set its sights on revamping the UK motor and home insurance marketplace to help customers, especially loyal policyholders, save money. The FCA is proposing reforms of these markets that...
MetLife Looks to Sell P&C Auto and Home Insurance Business: KBW Analysts
Sep 20 2020 // MetLife is pursuing a sale of its property/casualty auto and home insurance business, according to a report by analysts following the company Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) analysts, Ryan Krueger and Meyer Shields, said...
Moody’s Says Property/Casualty Insurers Face Significant Losses from Western Wildfires
Sep 17 2020 // Dozens of wildfires raging in California, Oregon, Washington and other Western states have resulted in loss of life, damaged or destroyed about 9,657 homes and commercial structures and burned more than 5 million acres,...
California Commissioner Holding Hearing on Homeowners Rates in Wake of Wildfires
Sep 16 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said today that he will convene an investigatory hearing in October in advance of initiating a series of regulatory actions that will protect residents from the increasing...
