Latest Homeowners Headlines
All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Baldwin Risk Partners Partners with Affordable Home Insurance of Florida
Mar 2 2017 // Baldwin Risk Partners (BRP), a Tampa, Fla.-based insurance distribution holding company, has partenred with Affordable Home Insurance Inc. (AHI) a Miramar Beach, Fla.-based insurance agency. AHI offers insurance products...
On-Demand Homeshare Insurer Slice Enters 5 More States
Mar 1 2017 // Slice Labs Inc., a technology startup featuring an on-demand insurance platform for people who share or rent their homes, is now offering its pay-per-use insurance coverage on a limited basis in five additional states:...
Dwelling Data. No Pun Intended.
Mar 1 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Using Quality Data to Enhance User Experience Insurers who sell homeowners insurance direct-to-consumer through a website must find that delicate balance between...
First Florida Bill Addressing AOB Introduced for 2017 Session
Feb 28 2017 // Florida now has legislation backed by the top Florida insurance regulator and the industry that promises to curtail homeowners insurance abuse under the assignment of benefits (AOB) feature. Senate Bill 1038, filed Feb. 17...
Orchid Underwriters Rolls Out Admitted Homeowners Products in Alabama
Feb 23 2017 // Orchid Underwriters Agency, LLC, a specialty underwriter of excess & surplus insurance focusing on coastal properties, has launched admitted residential homeowners’ products through a new partnership with...
Homeowners in South Carolina County Seek Buyout of Flooded Property
Feb 21 2017 // More than two dozen Lexington County, S.C., residents are ready to sell their homes rather than repair the flood damage. The State newspaper reported that 28 homeowners are asking county officials to buy and demolish the...
Despite Increase in Lawsuits, Texas Homeowner Insurance Complaints Remain Low
Feb 21 2017 // Despite a half million hail claims resulting in a record $4 billion in insured losses last year, homeowner complaints to the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) were the lowest number ever recorded, the Insurance Council...
Dozens of Homes Around San Antonio Damaged by Severe Storms, Tornadoes
Feb 21 2017 // Severe storms, including at least one tornado, have wreaked widespread damage across parts of San Antonio, damaging dozens of homes but causing only minor injuries. A National Weather Service survey team confirmed that a...
17 Million U.S. Homes Worth $4.9 Trillion Are in Environmental Hazard Zones
Feb 20 2017 // Millions of homes and condominiums across the country are in high danger zones for environmental hazards. According to the Environmental Hazards Housing Risk Index, produced by ATTOM Data Solutions, 17.3 million single...
Homeowners in South Carolina Awarded $7M in Faulty Construction Lawsuit
Feb 16 2017 // A townhome community in Mount Pleasant, S.C., has won a $7 million verdict against an Atlanta builder for what the townhome owners said was inferior work. The Post and Courier of Charleston reported a jury returned the...
New Orleans Mayor: 940 Homes Damaged by Half-Mile Wide Tornado
Feb 10 2017 // Dwight Powell lost his Lexus to the massive tornado that injured 33 people and destroyed or seriously damaged 940 properties on a half-mile wide rampage through two miles of east New Orleans. He had just parked it inside...
Demolishing of Baton Rouge Flood-Damaged Homes Set to Begin
Feb 8 2017 // Baton Rouge, La., officials are preparing to tear down abandoned homes that were damaged from flooding in August. The city-parish said in a Feb. 6 news release that officials will start to condemn the abandoned units, with...
Connected Homes and Cyber Insurance
Feb 6 2017 // Eight out of 10 U.S. consumers have a home data network and more than one-third of them connect entertainment systems, gaming consoles and other smart devices to the Internet. According to a survey from The Hartford Steam...
Who Will Foot the Bill for San Francisco’s $750M Millennium Tower?
Feb 2 2017 // Nina Agabian, a retired director of research in global health science at the University of California, bought a 29th-floor apartment in San Francisco’s Millennium Tower in 2010. “It was supposed to be a...
Research Shows California Homeowners Lack Understanding of Retrofitting
Feb 1 2017 // A new study on California homowners shows a general awareness of earthquakes and other natural hazards, but that those owners did not necessarily take action to mitigate risks, and many didn’t know whether their home...
Homes in California’s Hollywood Hills Hit by Mud, Debris Flow
Feb 1 2017 // The backyard of a Hollywood Hills, Calif. home has crumbled, sending mud and debris down a hill, across a street and into the front yards of two other houses. Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erick Scott says the...
Encore Special Risks Launches Texas Preferred Homeowners Program on Spinnaker Paper
Jan 30 2017 // Richardson, TX, January 30, 2017- Encore Special Risks, LLC and Spinnaker Insurance Company have launched a new Texas Preferred Homeowners HO-B program, making superior quality coverage available to homeowners in...
Connected Homes Heighten Need for Personal Cyber Insurance
Jan 27 2017 // Eight out of ten U.S. consumers have a home data network and more than a third of them connect entertainment systems, gaming consoles and other smart devices to the Internet. The same survey suggests that all of this...
Wildfires in Central Oklahoma Destroy Homes, Damage Structures
Jan 26 2017 // Authorities say at least two homes were destroyed in a fast-moving wildfire that burned in central Oklahoma on Tuesday. Wildfires, fueled by dry vegetation and strong winds, also damaged or destroyed other structures in...
California Homeowner Registration Starts for 2017 Brace + Bolt Program
Jan 26 2017 // The 2017 Earthquake Brace + Bolt program opened registration this week for $6 million in grants for seismic retrofits. This represents a 25 percent increase in funding over last year to help California homeowners protect...
