Homeowners Insurance
Consumer Information
- Six Things All Homeowners Should Know About Their Homeowners Insurance Policies, 12/06/12. (PDF)
- A Buyer's Guide to Insurance, 06/01/00. (PDF)
Press Releases
- Consumer Groups Call on Florida Insurance Commission to Stop Massive Forced-Placed Insurance Overcharges, 05/13/2013. (PDF)
- Consumer Groups Decry FHFA Billion Dollar Force-Placed Insurance Giveaway, 02/13/13. (PDF)
- Seven Things All Homeowners Should Know About Their Homeowners Insurance Policies, 12/10/12. (PDF)
- Expedited Claims, More Adjusters And Online Insurance Report Card System Will Improve Claims Processing And Transparency, 12/05/12. (PDF)
- In Wake of Superstorm Sandy, New York Should Protect Consumers from Reduced or Denied Claims, Take Steps to Develop Comprehensive Homeowners Insurance Reform, 11/30/12. (PDF)
- Will Breezy Point’s Firefighters Who Lost Their Homes to Fire During Superstorm Sandy Have Their Fire Insurance Claims Denied?, 11/19/12. (PDF)
- After Superstorm Sandy, State Insurance Regulators Must Protect Consumers From Unjustified Out-of-Pocket Costs, 11/6/12. (PDF)
- What Consumers Should Do To Get Fair Claims Payments in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy, 10/30/12. (PDF)
- What Consumers Should Do to Get Fair Claims Payments in the Wake of Hurricane Irene, 08/26/11. (PDF)
- CFA Calls on Representatives to Reject Flood Insurance Bill and Study Ending or Overhauling Federal Flood Program, 07/15/10. (PDF)
- Consumer Federation of America Calls on House Leaders to Stop Insurance Companies from Abusing Flood Insurance Program, 03/29/07. (PDF)
- State Insurance Regulators Fail to Protect Consumers from Excessive Property Insurance Rates Based on Discredited Hurricane Projections, 03/28/07. (PDF)
- Pressure Building on Congress to Establish Taxpayer-Funded Catastrophe Insurance Program, 11/15/05. (PDF)
- Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Won't Derail Huge Profits for Property/Casualty Insurers, 10/14/05. (PDF)
- Higher Agent/Broker Commissions in Home and Auto Insurance Often Mean Higher Rates, But Not Better Service, 02/24/05. (PDF)
- CFA Study Finds Controversial Contingency Payments Widely Used in Sales of Home and Auto Insurance, 01/26/05. (PDF)
Studies
- The Impact of Commissions on Prices and Service Quality for Home and Automobile Insurance, 02/24/05. (PDF)
Testimony and Comments
- CFA: Legislation Extending National Flood Insurance Program Should Also Study How to End or Overhaul Program, 9/23/10. (PDF)
- CFA Urges U.S. House of Representatives to Oppose HR 5114, the Flood Insurance Reform Priorities Act of 2010, 07/14/10. (PDF)
- CFA Calls for the Provision of Insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program to be Ended or Overhauled to Include Significant Private Market Participation, 07/12/10. (PDF)
- CFA Urges Opposition to Multiple Peril Insurance Act, 04/26/10. (PDF)
- Principles for Protecting Consumers and Taxpayers Under a Federal Catastrophe Insurance Program, 12/05/08. (PDF)
- CFA Urges Support for Flood Insurance Bill (S. 2284), Opposes Amendments to Cover Wind Losses or to Offer Subsidies to Insurers for Catastrophe Insurances, 05/06/08. (PDF)
- CFA Supports Flood Insurance Reform Legislation, Opposes Schumer Amendment in Banking Committee Markup, 10/16/07. (PDF)
- J. Robert Hunter's Testimony on Flood Insurance before the Senate Banking Committee, 10/02/07. (PDF)
- CFA Urges Opposition to Costly and Harmful Flood Insurance Expansion, H.R. 3121, 09/27/07. (PDF)
- CFA Urges Opposition to Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2007, 07/17/07. (PDF)
- CFA Letter to Rep. Barney Frank and Rep. Spencer Bachus Regarding Flood Insurance "Write Your Own" Insurance Companies, 03/12/07. (PDF)
- Testimony of CFA's Travis Plunkett before the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity on Catastrophe Insurance: Is America's Housing Market Prepared for the next Natural Catastrophe?, 06/28/06. (PDF)
- Testimony of CFA's J. Robert Hunter before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the McCarran-Ferguson Act: Implications of Repealing the Insurer's Antitrust Exemption, 06/21/06. (PDF)
- Principles for Protecting Consumers and Taxpayers Under a Federal Catastrophe Insurance Program, 11/15/05. (PDF)
- Testimony of CFA's J. Robert Hunter before the Senate Banking Committee on Oversight of the National Flood Insurance Program, 10/18/05. (PDF)