Buying your first home is a major milestone. However, it comes with major financial responsibilities, including protecting your home with homeowners insurance. While many first-time buyers focus on ...

David McMillin writes about credit cards, mortgages, banking, taxes and travel. Based in Chicago, he writes with one objective in mind: Help readers figure out how to save more and stress less. He is ...

Your homeowners insurance should cover siding damage after you’ve paid your deductible, provided a covered peril damaged it.

Floods hit even outside FEMA zones. Here's when NFIP flood insurance is required-and why coverage may still be worth it.

Tornadoes are a natural disaster that often cause significant destruction. Wind and hail are the leading causes of losses in home insurance claims, according to the Insurance Information Institute.

The FAIR Plan calculated its rate hike request using new guidelines approved by the California Department of Insurance late ...

Homeowners across the nation are seeing rising home insurance costs. It's normal for these rates to go up about 5% every year, according to Consumer Reports, but they went up an average of 12% in 2023 ...

With extreme weather events increasing in recent years, homeowners insurance companies have raised premiums or stopped offering coverage completely. Many of the policyholders hit with nonrenewal or ...

A family surveys the damage from fire on residence in Los Angeles. As homeowners survey the damage from the wildfires that tore through Southern California this month, it's tough to peg how much it ...

As homeowners survey the damage from the wildfires that tore through Southern California this month, it's tough to peg how ...