This was announced last November (2001) in Texas: The threat of mold has motivated changes at Farmers Insurance Group. Company officials say comprehensive homeowners insurance policies will not be renewed in Texas next year, due to black mold claims. They say mold coverage and Texas state policy threaten the financial stability of the company. […]
7/28/02 Austin, TX – Five of the state’s biggest insurance companies are joining forces to lobby the Legislature. Some lawmakers already are calling for more regulation to address skyrocketing premiums and shrinking coverage for homeowners. Some legislators also want to curb the use of credit scoring, the secret rating systems that many insurers […]
8/23/03 Honolulu, HI – Workers at the Hilton Hawaiian Village say the hotel’s mold problem is not confined to the new Kalia Tower, reporting that the third floor of the Lagoon Tower was closed over the weekend for antifungal painting. In response to an inquiry, Hilton spokeswoman Karen Winpenny said late Monday that the third […]
8/1/02 A grass roots homeowners’ movement in Texas is trying to take on the state’s insurance industry’s practices in handling mold-related homeowner insurance claims. Policyholders of America has issued a series of alleged problems and proposed solutions on which it wants the state legislature to take action. The organizer, headed up by mold activist, Melinda Ballard, […]
by Michael A.W. Ottey, Miami Herald As state regulators patiently listened, the insurance industry and homeowners on Tuesday squared off on the issue of a tiny organism both sides agree could have huge consequences: toxic mold. But the adversaries are miles apart on what impact the mold issue could have in the state. Homeowners and […]
7/19/02 The Texas Department of Insurance has launched an investigation to determine if new homeowner policy restrictions by Farmers Insurance Co. violate state law. At issue is the decision by the second-largest company in Texas to stop selling new policies for homes that have had a water damage claim during the past three years, and […]
3/12/05 Guest Commentary by Sandra Ghiardelli Hardly a day goes by, it seems, that creative trial lawyers are not finding new ways to get into your pocket. One new device is to fill the courts with claims based on the attack of the killer mold. It sounds like a bad, 1950’s science-fiction movie, but it […]
7/20/02 Dallas, TX – Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor broadened his investigation Friday of how the major insurers use claims histories in writing new business to include Allstate Insurance Co. Insurance department officials subpoenaed Allstate’s underwriting guidelines, Allstate officials said, and specifically requested any data referring to the age of houses and their plumbing. On […]
3/7/02 Dallas, TX – State Farm sent their ?own? remediators to get rid of the mold and moved the Vicknairs into a motel. But the insurer then determined it would only pay for the pipe itself and the water damage-not the mold-and walked away. This is very common practice for insurance companies when they ?hire? […]
LOS ANGELES– Farmers Insurance Group of Companies today was sued by Melinda Ballard alleging libel as a result of a defamatory and false statement. Ms. Ballard is a Farmers claimant who received an outrageous $32 million dollar award in Travis County over water leak claims on her home that she purchased in 1990 for $275,000 […]
I purchased a brand new mobile home in March 2003, I started having problems right away. When the company moved my trailer in it was raining really hard. Then they leveled the home in the mud. My roof looks like a mini roller coaster ride. I have 3 bathrooms in my home and only 1 […]
5/22/03 Houston, TX – For the last two months, Bob and Kathy McCord have been suburban refugees. They were forced out of their four-bedroom house in Dallas because of toxic mold, which they say has been festering under the floors and walls since a water pipe burst this spring. “The mold got so bad,” said […]
11/13/03 Guest commentary by Brandon Scott, Newsreal? Austin, TX – In a (in the early days) somewhat high-profile case involving a mold-damaged home, a state appeals court today reduced a jury verdict against Farmers Insurance Group from $32 million to $4 million plus interest and attorneys fees. Many questioned the fact that the “mansion” involved was considered […]
AUSTIN – In a move that is likely to worsen the snowballing insurance crisis in Texas, Farmers announced Tuesday that it would join the state’s largest insurer in halting the writing of new homeowners policies in the state. The move, which Farmers blamed on threatened fines by the Texas Department of Insurance, means Texans can […]
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