Coastal homeowners in Alabama had been facing home insurance woes for quite some time. This Gulf Coast state had seen a spate of natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, severe flooding, and catastrophic tropical storms in the past few years and these had unleashed the most damage in shoreline areas like Baldwin and Mobile counties. […]
According to MarketWatch, most basic home insurance policies in the United State do not suffice for the needs of homeowners. This is especially true of high-value property owners, many of whom have their houses dotting the coastal regions of Florida. In fact, according to the news publication, these homeowners with properties worth $1 million and […]
The South Carolina Safe Home Program under the aegis of the South Carolina Department of Insurance provides funds to individual homeowners to help them undertake retrofitting measures that will reinforce their homes against the ravaging effects of hurricanes and tropical storms. Homeowners whose properties have insured values of less than $300,000 are eligible for these […]
North Carolina homeowners are in for some additional financial strains this year. The apex insurance regulatory authority in the state has allowed home insurance providers across North Carolina to increase policy rates by an average of 7 percent. The hike will come into effect from July 1st this year. This is the first home insurance […]
Many towns in the Avery and Watauga counties in North Carolina are still reeling from the impact of the floods that took place just a month back. This bout of flooding comes in the wake of the prediction, as was published in Forbes, that the United States will see more severe weather in 2013. So […]
The state government of Alabama is on a mission—to cleanse the home insurance sector of its many ails and bring relief to homeowners who have been plagued by the scarcity of appropriate insurance policies that don’t cost the earth and skyrocketing premium prices that compel many to forego their policies. From Hurricane Katrina to SuperStorm […]
According to the predictions by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the recent tornado in Oklahoma is only the first in the spate of many more that are expected to hit the Atlantic shores of the United States this summer season. The NOAA predicts that the states on the Atlantic coastal region will face […]
Harried homeowners in Florida can rejoice in the news that some of the consumer groups in the state have risen up in arms against the menace of force-placed insurance overcharges. The Consumer Federation of America and the Center for Economic Justice intend to appeal to the Florida Insurance Commissioner to investigate the growing menace of […]
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has admitted that the home insurance sector in the state badly needs some reforms and one area that needs to be addressed immediately is the discrepancy in the insurance prices across various regions of the state. More specifically, the greatest of the discrepancies exists between the rates levied on coastal homeowners […]
South Carolina homeowners have to not only contend with tax hikes and fuel price rises but also a body of weak insurance regulations in their state that inconvenience them and also sometimes compel them to pay out premium amounts that are hardly justified. The Department of Insurance in South Carolina surely needs to look into […]