Minnesota house insurance premiums leap after just one claim
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…
UP Hosts October 3 Meeting, Fourth Workshop to Answer Insurance Questions
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…
Dark Water: A Year After Hurricane Sandy
Dark Water: A Year After Hurricane Sandy

LONG BEACH, N.Y. — In lines at the grocery store and the post office here, the usual pleasantries are still squeezed out by talk of the slow pace of reconstruction, spiking flood insurance premiums and whether the hospital, movie theater or sports club will ever…
UP offers flood insurance tips on what’s covered, what’s not
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…
6 Months After High Park Fire Insurance Woes Loom Large
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…
Manitou business owners wade through muck to assess losses
Manitou business owners wade through muck to assess losses

More than 20 businesses suffered losses from the flood that swept through Manitou Springs on Friday and owners say some may not reopen for up to two weeks as they clean up damage. Many of the shops in the 700 block of Manitou Avenue and…
Lack of insurance an issue after Manitou flood
Lack of insurance an issue after Manitou flood

Many of the businesses in Manitou Springs that suffered losses in Friday’s devastating flood didn’t have flood insurance because they couldn’t get it for their location or couldn’t afford it, said an official from iManitou, the city’s chamber of commerce, economic development office and visitor’s…
Oklahomans’ homeowners insurance will remain among nation’s most expensive
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…
Flood Insurance Workshop To Be Held Monday Night
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…
Slack demand, but big promise still seen for Hurricane Sandy insurance mediation
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.…
Legal issues just beginning for Sandy victims, pro-bono attorney says
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…
FEMA to Buy Out One Home on Old York Road
FEMA to Buy Out One Home on Old York Road

The township is changing its agreement with the NJDEP Blue Acres Program for the purchase and demolition of two homes on Old York Road along the Raritan River Floodway—because only one is now being accepted into the program.This program concerns the buy-out and demolition of…
Flashpoint: Living with wildfire
Flashpoint: Living with wildfire
Businesses pushing to settle claims from Sandy
Businesses pushing to settle claims from Sandy

Linda Schwartz had been running her Mexican restaurant for 29 years when it became a casualty of Hurricane Sandy.Schwartz waited out the storm in her Dennis Township home, confident that she had done what she could to safeguard her Avalon business, Tortilla Flats, by moving…
Insuring yourself against water calamity can make your head spin
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.…
Flood insurance law hurting Sandy victims
Flood insurance law hurting Sandy victims

A little-known provision in some Long Island homeowners’ flood insurance policies could stymie their claims to collect for superstorm Sandy damage. Advocates and lawyers for property owners say it’s a loophole for insurance companies and the Federal Emergency Management Agency that is based on semantics.…
Why Pharmacy Refused Drug For Terminal Cancer Patient
Why Pharmacy Refused Drug For Terminal Cancer Patient

A Shingle Springs woman says the mail order pharmacy refused to fulfill a prescription to help battle her terminal cancer. When three weeks went by and she says the cancer spread, she called Kurtis. This medicine was prescribed to try and contain the cancer. But…
The Black Forest Fire has attracted insurance pros — for better and worse
The Black Forest Fire has attracted insurance pros — for better and worse

The flier called it a “Town Hall Meeting for Black Forest Fire Residents.” But this wasn’t a town hall in the traditional sense. No elected official or governmental staff member was scheduled to speak. El Paso County officials, in fact, say they had nothing to…