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...Local insurance brokers say they have seen a big jump in calls from homeowners in search of cover as companies pull out of certain neighbourhoods....
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...This has already occurred in home insurance relating to climate, with US states including Florida providing cover for homeowners who are unable to get it; the UK’s Flood Re is a joint government and industry...
...Nord Stream, owned by Gazprom, Wintershall Dea, Eon, Gasunie and Engie, said those involved were “unknown”....
...The second is that rising mortgage rates now discourage homeowners with cheap deals to sell, causing undersupply....
...These companies collectively underwrote about 70 per cent of US homeowners’ premiums, it said. The Treasury’s proposals have highlighted the fragmented nature of US insurance regulation....
...He confirmed the heavily trailed 2p cut in national insurance contributions, a shake-up of the “non-dom” tax regime and the creation of a “British Isa” to encourage investment in UK-listed companies....
...The [Conservative] party, so long considered the party of home ownership, ghosted homebuyers, aspiring homeowners, homeowners and the housing market at large.”...
...Still, this downgrade comes as US insurance-underwriting losses spread from the troubled auto-insurance businesses — where insurers are slowly getting their rates higher — and into homeowners’ policies....
...The cost is as yet unknown. The insurance sector is expecting a hefty bill....
...One unknown is how far back compensation should go. The FOS jurisdiction over investigations like this only extends from 2007, which would mean a maximum period of 2007-2020....
...,” which is Florida’s state-run insurance company....
...It would not be pushed around “by two unknown guys”, said one person close to the firm....
...Auto-insurance businesses are still losing money. And a run of unusually destructive bad weather has brought additional losses for their property-insurance businesses....
...The former City minister said returning to a free market for flood insurance by 2039 would depend on that extra money and action by homeowners to improve the resilience of their properties....
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...Without insurance coverage, they typically cost about $1,300 per month in the US, making them inaccessible for many....
...Couples who live in US states that allow workers to claim unemployment insurance when they move for a spouse’s job are 40 per cent more likely to move....
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