Melissa Hudson says she was stunned last year when the insurance premiums on her home in Port Orchard, Wash., shot up 40 percent—even though she’d intentionally bought a home at low risk for fire, ...

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Regardless of how much contents insurance cover a policy affords you, there’s usually a limit to how much an insurer will ...

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Will you receive any money when you file a home insurance claim in Texas? Flip a coin. Out of about 2.6 million claims received and closed by home insurers operating in Texas last year, nearly half, ...

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Their timing was lucky: Tim Anderson and his wife bought a house in Austin, Texas in late 2019, just before the pandemic hit and competition for houses got intense. But as home prices have risen in ...