A White Plains, N.Y.-based in property-casualty insurer said it is expanding its coverage to owners of “well-built, high value homes” in Louisiana.

Homeowners Choice, a Florida-based insurance holding company, said its wholly owned insurance subsidiary, Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Co., acquired the Florida policies of HomeWise Insurance Co.

Ryan Erdman, an insurance agent at TAMRAC Insurance Group in Hunt Valley, Md., has never sold coverage for an earthquake – yet.

Insurance companies have begun changing how they handle payment for sinkholes in response to widespread defrauding through misuse of funds, according to an Internet insurance rate service.

Florham Park, N.J.-based ADP Statewide Insurance has launched a new website at www.adpinsurance.com.

Alfa Insurance, a Montgomery, Ala.-based insurer, is dropping about 73,000 property insurance policies, mostly rental properties, across Alabama in response to the losses it suffered in the April 27 tornadoes.

A Rhode Island radio personality and a a former town council president are expected to admit this week to their roles in an insurance fraud scheme involving damage to a home and pool, according to media reports.

New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) Commissioner Tom Considine recently issued a reminder to consumers to discuss flood coverage with their insurance agents.

State Farm was ordered to return nearly $350 million to customers a Texas judge says were overcharged starting in 2003.

Actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, also an actor, have sued their former insurance broker, alleging the California company grossly overcharged them for insurance policies.