October 3, 2013 More Bay Area Residents Live In Flood Zones Under New FEMA Maps Tens of thousands of homeowners in the Bay Area and across the country are getting a wakeup call. New maps from FEMA show they are now living in flood zones. Mark Kelly reports.
October 3, 2013 Minnesota house insurance premiums leap after just one claim Minnesota tops the nation in terms of how much the cost of a homeowners insurance policy jumps after a claim. Filing just one claim raises the annual premium cost in Minnesota an average of 21.2 percent, according to report out Wednesday by InsuranceQuotes.com, an online…
October 3, 2013 UP Hosts October 3 Meeting, Fourth Workshop to Answer Insurance Questions To help Black Forest residents with insurance questions United Policyholders, an experienced non-profit consumer group, will be hosting another one of its nationally recognized “Roadmap to Recovery” workshops on Thursday, Oct. 3. The free workshop, specifically addressing questions about Contents / Personal Property Claim Help…
October 2, 2013 One Home Insurance Claim May Raise Your Premium By Up To 21% Study) It probably comes as no surprise that filing an auto insurance claim will likely result in a raised annual premium. What may be shocking to some, however, is that filing a claim on your home insurance policy could also result in a hefty rate increase.…
October 1, 2013 Be Patient With The Health Insurance Exchanges t’s time to start shopping for health insurance on the new exchanges also known as marketplaces) created by the federal Affordable Care Act. To get the scoop on what consumers should know when these marketplaces open, InsuranceQuotes.com chatted with Amy Bach, executive director of United…
September 24, 2013 Flood insurance prices expected to surge A tide of flood insurance rate increases is rolling in, despite the efforts of state and federal legislators to stem it in waterlogged areas, with 25 percent hikes in the offing beginning Oct. 1, 2013. The nonprofit consumer group United Policyholders, which provides insurance advice…
September 17, 2013 UP offers flood insurance tips on what’s covered, what’s not According to United Policyholders, a homeowner’s policy covers falling and rain-driven water, so if the storm created any breaks in the house exterior — holes in the roof, broken windows, penetrated seals through which rain fell or through which wind drove rain inside — there…
September 17, 2013 AUDIO – Flood-Damaged Homes: Who Pays? A looming question for homeowners in flooded areas is what to do about the damage to their homes. Who will pay for the repairs? Host Ryan Warner speaks with Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, a consumer advocacy group. For FEMA assistance, www.disasterassistance.org.
September 16, 2013 6 Months After High Park Fire Insurance Woes Loom Large On the 6 month anniversary of the High Park Fire, life is different and challenges abound. Challenges like working through the labyrinth of insurance claims. 259 homes were destroyed by the High Park Fire. Dale and Marilyn Snyder were among them. They didn’t think they…
September 16, 2013 Pitfalls of Long-Term Care Insurance Products When Nancy Nasief was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007, her husband Edmund G. Nasief Jr., a UBS advisor, wasn’t thinking about long-term care insurance. It was about the last thing on his mind. In fact, when one of the members of his advisory team,…
September 3, 2013 Oklahomans’ homeowners insurance will remain among nation’s most expensive Residents of tornado-prone Oklahoma already pay some of the highest rates for homeowners insurance in the nation — and rates are only going up. It’s not uncommon for insurance companies to raise rates in a region after a catastrophe like the tornadoes that hit Oklahoma…
August 26, 2013 Flood Insurance Workshop To Be Held Monday Night Devastating flooding in the Pikes Peak region has hammered home the importance of having flood insurance. So many people in El Paso and Teller counties have been suffered–in some cases again and again–after an especially harsh monsoonal pattern season. Those living near the Waldo Canyon…
August 14, 2013 Slack demand, but big promise still seen for Hurricane Sandy insurance mediation One of New Jersey’s efforts to help Hurricane Sandy victims resolve their insurance woes has had an unexpected result: few takers. Three months ago, the state launched a mediation program to help Sandy-struck homeowners and business owners settle disputes with their insurers over storm claims.…
August 5, 2013 Do You Need Life Insurance in Retirement? Life insurance helps protect your spouse and children from poverty in the case of your untimely death. However, once your children become self-sufficient and you and your spouse accumulate significant assets, there’s less of a need to keep paying the premiums for life insurance. Here’s…
July 31, 2013 Legal issues just beginning for Sandy victims, pro-bono attorney says Hurricane Sandy is long over, with reconstruction under way in most places, but for many impacted by the storm, problems are still piling up – legal problems, that is. That is why a cadre of pro-bono attorneys has fanned out throughout areas of New Jersey…
July 24, 2013 Insuring yourself against water calamity can make your head spin On the other side of the country, home after home is rotting, left much the same as the day after Hurricane Sandy landed in 2012. These are the houses of those who never bought flood insurance, which must be purchased separately from regular homeowner’s insurance.…
