Conning Research: Challenges Looming for Homeowners Insurance (Insurance Journal)

Published - 10/08/2008 11:30 AM

The five-year period spanning from 2003-2007 served the homeowners insurance line favorably after the dismal 20-year period that preceded it, and return on surplus for the line averaged an estimated 1 

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Texas Watch wants state changes for homeowners insurance (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

Published - 10/07/2008 12:04 AM

A consumer advocacy group is driving 3,000 miles in an RV to get Texans thinking about homeowners insurance. 

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USAA files for homeowner rate increase (Houston Chronicle)

Published - 10/11/2008 12:49 AM

USAA filed with state regulators Friday to raise rates on homeowners insurance in Texas by an average of 7.9 percent. 

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J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Customer Satisfaction With Homeowners Insurance Remains Flat, While Satisfaction ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Published - 10/06/2008 08:28 AM

The gap in customer satisfaction between homeowners and auto insurance providers has steadily widened since 2004, with homeowners insurance customer satisfaction remaining essentially flat during the past five years, according to the J.D. 

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Reform advocates take aim at Texas homeowners insurance (Texarkana Gazette)

Published - 10/09/2008 07:53 AM

Insurance reform advocates and District 1 State Rep. Stephen Frost, D-Atlanta, met in Texarkana to talk about changes in the Texas Department of Insurance. 

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Satisfaction gap with home, car insurance widens (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Published - 10/06/2008 01:10 PM

Consumers are growing more satisfied with their auto insurance, but not so with their homeowners insurance, a survey by J.D. Powers and Associates shows. 

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Citizens increases rates by average of 14% (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

Published - 10/07/2008 12:29 AM

BATON ROUGE -- The board of directors of the state-run homeowners insurance program Monday narrowly approved an average 14 percent rate increase that policyholders would begin paying early next year. 

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Satisfaction with Home Insurance Flat But Gains with Auto (Insurance Journal)

Published - 10/07/2008 12:01 AM

The gap in customer satisfaction between homeowners and auto insurance providers has steadily widened since 2004, with homeowners insurance customer satisfaction remaining essentially flat during the 

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Latest Additions (The Barnstable Patriot)

Published - 10/10/2008 05:58 AM

If re-elected to a sixth term, Demetrius Atsalis will be the senior representative in the Cape’s legislative delegation. But a career politician isn’t what Atsalis set out to become, nor does he believe it’s what he is. He also doesn’t think it’s time to leave. 

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Money crisis: Where to put your money now (Money via Yahoo! Finance)

Published - 10/09/2008 11:30 AM

Back in January, when it first became clear the economy and the markets were in for a rough patch, the consensus forecast was that we'd have seen the worst of it by now. 

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