{"id":209467,"date":"2026-03-28T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209467\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:22:06","slug":"homeowners-tell-wptv-their-insurance-premiums-dropped-as-market-improves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209467\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowners tell WPTV their insurance premiums dropped as market improves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Premium reductions on homeowners&#8217; insurance are apparently being offered to some Florida homeowners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;To my surprise, I looked at the renewal and couldn&#8217;t believe my eyes, and then my agent emailed me and told me that it had gone down $1,600, almost $1,700,&#8221; Lori Lanni, a Royal Palm Beach resident, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/money\/real-estate-news\/florida-homeowners-see-unexpected-drops-in-insurance-premiums-as-the-market-shows-signs-of-stabilizing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told WPTV on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH BELOW: Homeowners in Florida seeing falling insurance rates<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lanni said she has her insurance with a Florida-based company called Frontline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Finding the right insurer at the right price is getting easier in 2026, according to agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;There usually are in the industry flavors of the month in targeted areas, certain areas you&#8217;ll see mass migration to one carrier,&#8221; Lee Wiglesworth of Wiglesworth-Rindom Insurance Agency in Stuart said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He said this year, among the 25 insurers he works with, premiums are down about 11%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;Almost everyone gets a premium down, but you have to really pay attention to what coverages have been reduced,&#8221; Wiglesworth said. &#8220;What can you afford in the deductible they&#8217;re offering to you, so don&#8217;t just look for that price. I would say look for an agent that sounds more like an educator than a salesperson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mark Friedlander of the Insurance Information Institute offered some tips for shopping around. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;You want to get at least three quotes,&#8221; Friedlander said. &#8220;We recommend getting a mix of quotes from national and regional insurers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">U.S. News and World Report <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/insurance\/homeowners-insurance\/local\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released a list this month<\/a> of the best insurers in Florida, which includes State Farm, Florida Peninsula, Homeowners Choice and Universal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For many Florida homeowners, the options are limited to the regional small carriers with limited options among the big national companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Homeowners can also find savings by sticking with their current company, according to Robert Norberg of Arden Insurance in Lantana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;I encourage people to still talk to your agent because you may have gotten an upgrade that they don\u2019t know about, you got a new roof last year and didn\u2019t tell your agent, so that could be a decrease for you,&#8221; Norberg said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premium reductions on homeowners&#8217; insurance are apparently being offered to some Florida homeowners. &#8220;To my surprise, I looked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-209467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}