Latest HOA Condo Association Headlines
All the headlines from our HOA Condo Association Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NFS Edge Launches Flood Coverage Option for Condo Associations
Dec 16 2015 // NFS Edge Insurance Agency, Inc., a unit of Aon National Flood Services, Inc., through its Insurmark division has launched a new private flood insurance alternative to the Residential Condominium Business Association...
How to Write Coverage for Condominium Associations and Individual Unit Owners
Nov 16 2015 // Completing the condominium insurance picture necessitates “jigsaw puzzle” tenacity. Quite a few pieces must be snapped together to assure the proper insurance picture is presented; any missing information can...
Higginbotham Adds Homeowners Association Insurance Practice Group
Apr 8 2015 // A group of five commercial property/casualty insurance professionals led by broker Mark Conner has joined Higginbotham in Houston. The group specializes in homeowners association (HOA) insurance and loss control, serving...
New Mexico Jury Awards $12M Against Condo Association for Shooting Death
Apr 6 2015 // The family of a man killed in an Albuquerque, N.M.-area housing complex by a stray bullet that went through his door has won a $12 million judgment against a condominium association and a property management firm. A jury...
New Mexico Jury Awards $12M Against Condo Association For Shooting Death
Mar 20 2015 // The family of a man killed in an Albuquerque, N.M.-area housing complex by a stray bullet that went through his door has won a $12 million judgment against a condominium association and a property management firm. KRQE-TV...
South Carolina Lawmakers Seek to Regulate Homeowners Associations
Jan 20 2015 // Complaints about how subdivision and condominium homeowners associations operate have led South Carolina lawmakers to introduce four bills to more closely regulate the groups. The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reports that...
Understanding Condo Association & Unit Valuation
Nov 3 2014 // Quite a few pieces must be in place to ensure no coverage gaps exist in either the condominium association’s or unit owner’s coverage picture. Three questions must be considered by the agent writing the...
Nevada HOA To Pay $65K After Banning Family’s Ambulance
Nov 1 2013 // A Las Vegas homeowners association agreed to pay $65,000 to a family after refusing to allow them to park an ambulance they used for their disabled son in the driveway, federal officials said Wednesday. The HOA admits no...
Retrial Ordered in Florida Condo Association Suit Against QBE Insurance
Sep 24 2012 // A federal appellate court has reversed a $7.2 million judgment and ordered a new trial in a Florida hurricane insurance case. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeal issued the ruling in Atlanta based on a May opinion by the...
Florida Homeowners Association Could Be Sued in Martin Shooting Case
Apr 10 2012 // If Trayvon Martin’s family sues over his death, they might not target George Zimmerman but instead the homeowners association of the neighborhood where the shooting happened and Zimmerman lived. That’s because...
Idaho Homeowners Association Treasurer Charged With Embezzling
Dec 8 2011 // The former treasurer of a Meridian, Idaho homeowners association is charged with embezzling more than $20,000 from the organization since 2006. The Idaho Statesman reported Tuesday that Kristy Jenkins is charged with...
Georgia Court to Weigh Alligator Claim Against Homeowners Association
Oct 21 2011 // A divided Georgia Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments in a case involving a woman found dead in a lagoon that was home to an eight-foot alligator in a subdivision near Savannah. Heirs of 83-year-old Gwyneth...
Records Seized in Las Vegas HOA Insurance Probe
Apr 12 2011 // Police and Nevada state attorney general’s investigators seized records from a Las Vegas homeowner association in what one member calls an embezzlement investigation. Former state Sen. Bill O’Donnell tells the...
Union General Provides Market for Homeowners Associations in California
Mar 16 2010 // Union General has an “A+” rated carrier offering coverage to California agents for common area exposure for homeowners associations. Pricing is on a per unit basis. Limits up to $2,000,000 occurrence/$3,000,000...
Miami Condo Association Sues QBE Insurance Over Hurricane Claims
Nov 25 2009 // A Miami condominium association is suing its insurer, QBE Insurance Corp., and its Florida general managing agent, for more than $500 million in damages, claiming bad faith and deception in handling hurricane...
Texas Legislator Aims to Limit Power of Homeowners’ Associations
Mar 2 2009 // Texas State Rep. Burt Solomons (Carrollton) has announced plans for a sweeping reform of the state’s homeowners’ association laws, including a constitutional amendment that would prohibit foreclosure of a...
Heritage General Agency Offers New HOA Product for Up to Four Unit Condos
Sep 11 2008 // Los Angeles-based Heritage General Agency’s has a new HOA product for up to four units for small condominium associations. The non-admitted carrier is offering this as a package; however, it can be written on a stand...
Maryland Court Wrong in Condo Association, Unit Owner Coverage Ruling
Jul 7 2008 // How the Court Overstepped its Bounds and Affected Current Policies and Future Claims A firestorm of confusion and comment was created by a recent Insurance Journal report detailing a recent Maryland Court of Appeals ruling...
ICW Offers DIC Program for Condo & Homeowner’s Associations
Jun 25 2008 // San Diego-based ICW Group, a group of insurers, announced a new program homeowner’s associations and multi-family condos that provides expanded coverage for buildings of wood frame construction built after 1975. The...
Union General Offers Homeowners Associations Coverage
Jun 1 2008 // Union General of Concord, Calif., has an “A+” rated carrier offering coverage for common area exposure for homeowners associations. Pricing is on a per unit basis. Limits up to $2 million occurrence/$3 million...
