Tag: insurance

It Doesn’t Pay to Skimp on Your Insurance

Some people try to save money on insurance by purchasing the minimum coverage available. But, the risk of purchasing the minimum policy is it can lead to surprises if an unforeseen event does occur. For instance, you’re at fault for an auto accident and you get sued, the minimum coverage

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New Rules Emerge for Construction in Flood Prone Areas

Regulations for companies and homeowners using federal funds for projects in flood-prone areas will push construction projects to higher ground. The new regulations recently released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency require building on higher ground, up to two feet higher than the 100-year floodplain, according to the Wall Street

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Is Your Car Safe From Hackers?

Keyless entry, navigation control, and entertainment systems are all computerized and subject to Internet access. Some new cars today have as many as forty wireless access points. That’s why the FBI has recently issued a new warning about the risk of cars and trucks being able to be remotely hacked.

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The next ‘big one’ might not come from the San Andreas

The next mega-earthquake to shake the continental U.S. might not be the San Andreas Fault in California, but from a far more dangerous fault farther north. The Cascadia subduction zone, which runs from Northern California to British Columbia, could deliver a temblor 30 times stronger than the San Andreas. Scientists

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Should you get insurance with that holiday drone?

This holiday season thousands of amateur pilots will take the controls of hobby drones. The aerial swooping and swooshing that is sure to follow will likely lead to a few cracked windows and a few bodily injuries. That’s when the liability claims could take off. “Almost no one is thinking

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Introducing High Net Worth Personal Insurance Lines

As insurance carriers searched for ways to expand and improve their product offerings, industry executives recognized unique and diverse risk in a rather unusual space–the high net worth market. Interestingly enough, while the affluent are generally thought of as having excessive amounts of everything, when it comes to insurance products,

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