Imagine paying full premium for an insurance contract, and receiving only 60 percent on any claim you make — that’s the unsavory situation now being faced by both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ),
as well as a bevy of private-market lenders, on their mortgage insurance contracts with troubled mortgage insurer Triad Guaranty Inc.
Link to full story at housingwire.com
http://www.housingwire.com/2009/04/02/mortgage-insurance-woes-grow-for-fannie-freddie/edited to add: This is for PMI ( Private Mortgage Insurance) not Homeowner's Insurance against
damage, etc.