July 31, 2024
New Jersey property owners do not need to show that their home is damaged or decayed in order to qualify for a flood hazard permit to replace it, a state appeals court has ruled. The court upheld the state Department …
April 25, 2022
A state judge has ruled that the intertidal zone belongs to beachfront property owners but the judge’s ruling didn’t specify what activities, if any, might be allowed there. The ruling was a setback for plaintiffs who sued last year to …
December 28, 2016
Officials estimate over 500 oceanfront homes remain at risk months of Hurricane Matthew swept past northeast Florida’s coastline. According to the St. Augustine Record, St. Johns County officials say all 42 miles of county beaches suffered erosion from the Category …
June 12, 2014
Frontline Insurance has launched a new rental home insurance product for owners of rental property in South Carolina. The coverage protects non-owner occupied properties in coastal areas and offers protection from fire damage and the owner from legal liability. Coastal …
September 12, 2013
The board of Texas insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast voted at its August meeting to raise premium rates beginning in January 2014. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association board of directors voted to file …
May 15, 2013
Frontline Insurance, a provider of coastal homeowners coverage, is now licensed in Delaware. Frontline already operates in Florida and South Carolina and recently announced a new coverage program for Alabama residents, including wind and flood all in one package. A …
May 6, 2013
Frontline Homeowners Insurance, a coastal-focused insurer, is now offering wind and flood coverage to Alabama residents with coastal properties in Mobile and Baldwin Counties. Frontline Homeowners Insurance offers a contractors assist program as part of its coverage, which manages the …
March 14, 2013
A state senator in Texas is taking the insurance industry to task for what he perceives as its disinterest in coming up with new approaches to solving coastal windstorm insurance issues. In a Senate committee meeting on March 12, Sen. …
October 5, 2012
Louisiana State University has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to investigate whether southern coastal Louisiana has reached the tipping point, becoming too costly to sustain. The interdisciplinary research project will investigate the sustainability of coastal communities …
June 7, 2012
When people think of hurricane damage they usually think of Miami or New Orleans, but a new report suggests the greatest financial risk of all may be much farther north: the greater New York City area. Data analysis firm CoreLogic …