Tag: property insurance

Homeowners insurance lacking in over 9 in 10 UAE homes

H. Cutner
homeowners Insurance news

Recent findings from Zurich have revealed that the current trend is headed in a downward direction. It took a massive fire in a Dubai residential tower, last year, to truly draw the attention of property owners in the United Arab Emirates to the importance of homeowners insurance, but it looks as though the climbing trend has come to an end and is starting to drop once more. A recent study has shown that over 9 out of every 10 people don’t have their homes covered. The homeowners insurance study was…

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Homeowners insurance in Colorado to experience massive reforms

G. Turner
Colorado homeowners insurance industry wildfires

The tremendously destructive wildfires in the state have caused underwriters to come together to overhaul the system. Over the last three years, Colorado has experienced devastating wildfires that have ignited an overhaul of the state’s homeowners insurance system, in the hopes that consumers might begin seeing some positive changes over the next few several weeks. The situation in the states has undergone a considerable change that has brought coverage to the spotlight. According to Carole Walker, the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association executive director, “The cycle of natural disaster has…

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Earthquake insurance recommendations made following recent activity

Julie Campbell
Oklahoma Earthquake Insurance

The tremors that have been occurring in Oklahoma have caused officials to discuss coverage. There have been a number of homeowners across Oklahoma that have been taken completely off guard when their homes were rocked by tremors, and they are now starting to look into earthquake insurance, particularly as state and industry officials have started to talk about the coverage. There are a number of different things that should be taken into account when shopping for these policies. Experts in and representatives of the earthquake insurance industry have been speaking…

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Homeowners insurance bill filed by Florida legislator for gun owners

H. Cutner
Florida Homeowners Insurance

This action appears to be made as a pre-emptive strike to regulate the way weapons owners are treated by insurers. Representative Matt Gaetz has now filed legislation that is designed to help to regulate how homeowners insurance companies will be able to treat gun owners, through a bill that is being viewed as a form of pre-emptive strike in Florida. At the moment, application for home coverage do not ask whether or not a gun will be on the property. Within the state of Florida, when a homeowners insurance policy…

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Force placed insurance regulations to be altered in the United States

G. Turner
force placed insurance

The FHFA now intends to ban mortgage lenders from being able to receive payments. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is now working to ban mortgage companies from being able to receive lucrative payments in order to arrange for forced placed insurance on behalf of homeowners in certain situations, such as when an existing policy has been allowed to lapse or has gone unpaid, against the agreement of the loan. The U.S. housing regulator is working to stop this controversial payments practice from continuing. Government officials have revealed that force…

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