Notice an increase in your homeowners insurance premium? While it doesn’t make it any easier, it’s important to know you’re not alone. Most homeowners insurance companies across the nation are increasing the price they charge to protect your home and its contents.
Why, you ask? In a word: weather. Just in the period between April and June of 2011, catastrophic weather events caused $15 billion in property damage across the nation, making the second quarter of 2011 the most-expensive second quarter on record for catastrophe-related weather losses.