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Lender Placed Insurance.(home improvement loans)(Hurricane Katrina effect on mortgages)(Brief Article)

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Recent events have made the importance of collateral insurance all too clear for mortgage lenders. Just to give you an idea, while the full tally of damage to residential property from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita won't be known for some time, Fannie Mae recently estimated that it will take a $250 million to $550 million hit as a result of the storms. Countrywide Home Loans has indicated that it will face losses relating to Hurricane Katrina that exceed the total losses the company experienced from storms in 2004, when four hurricanes ripped across Florida.

In New Orleans alone, estimates of how many homes may have to be razed exceed 100,000 properties. That must be pretty scary to lenders that have a high concentration of loans secured by homes in the area.

Lender-placed insurance is a tricky, unsettling business that can get lenders in trouble if they don't do it right. Remember, force-placement of insurance was one of the issues that raised the ire ...

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