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What can protect your house and values? Home insurance!

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What’s Challenging CEOs?

Increased risk, cost and need for new skills are the greatest challenges presented by complexity, according to new research from KPMG International, a network of firms providing audit, tax and advisory services.

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More than 90% of 1,400 senior executives in 22 countries say their organization’s success depends on managing complex business issues, primarily the regulatory landscape and information management.

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Posted Jan 28, 2011 | by Daniel Scott

A Homeowners Guide to Keeping Moisture Out of Your Home

As a homeowner, you have enough to worry about.

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Posted Jan 26, 2011 | by Kyle Evans
Tags: Home

What?s Bugging IT?

More than half of data administrators surveyed (51%) said that technology refreshes were the top priority for 2011, according to a new IT survey by SANpulse Technologies Inc.

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The results of the study reveal what data center managers are planning for the next 12 months.

Data center consolidation was the primary concern for 41.5% of administrators surveyed.

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Posted Jan 23, 2011 | by Daniel Scott

How to Insure a Home Overseas

According to recent calculations by the United States Department of State, there are approximately 6.6 million Americans living abroad and it is estimated by the National Association of Realtors that there are approximately half a million homes owned by Americans overseas. Whether those homes are an expatriate’s primary residence or just an overseas vacation home, there is a need for home insurance and there are several places that American citizens can consider when shopping for international home insurance.

First, Think Local

If you own a home overseas, look for an insurance company local to that area as most American insurance companies will not insure a home outside of the U.S. O

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Posted Jan 22, 2011 | by Eric Flores

Increased water charges following a burst pipe

Thousands of second home owners are still mopping up the damage caused by burst pipes during the coldest December on record.

Primarily, it’s essential that you are covered for the damage caused by burst pipes and that you comply with the terms of the insurance when your holiday home is unoccupied.

But there is also another consequence of having a burst pipe that holiday home owners give little consideration to, until they are faced with a bill – increased water charges.

A leaking pipe can spill out over 2,000 gallons of water a day if left unnoticed. The impact of this was recently highlighted when a burst pipe inside a vacant holiday home was draining a village water supply. Luc

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Posted Jan 21, 2011 | by Kyle Evans
Tags: Burst Pipe Pipe

Why You Should Get Renters Insurance

Often, people assume that they don’t really own enough stuff to make renters insurance a good buy. This is especially true of younger renters, who often don’t think about how much they really do have or of all the ways it can be taken from them. Invite an insurance agent over, though, and we’ll bet he can show you how much you really do have that’s worth protecting.

We know. The insurance agent is just there to make money. We would never claim that his motivation was anything else. Heck, that’s why most of us go to work, isn’t it?

The insurance agent’s motivation aside, however, he has a legitimate product to sell which can help protect you against losses which are entirely possible. For instance, Read more…

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Posted Jan 20, 2011 | by Kyle Evans
Tags: Insurance Renters Insurance

Twitter vs. Web for Crisis Communication at B of A

Banks are still juggling how best to use social media to communicate to customers — especially when other systems go down.

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At around 7 a.m. Friday, Bank of America Corp. experienced a partial outage of its online banking service. The Charlotte, N.C., bank used Twitter to get the word out, but it did not announce the outage on its home page. I

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Posted Jan 15, 2011 | by Daniel Scott

Buy to Let Building Insurance: Specialist Landlords Insurance

A guide to getting specialist buy to let building insurance, why it is important to get specialist landlord insurance.

If considering investment in a buy to let property, then it is essential to check that one has the appropriate level of home and buildings insurance to cover the commercial usage of the property. One solution may be to take out a specialist landlords insurance policy or buy to let buildings insurance.

Why take out Landlord Insurance or Buy to Let Buildings Insurance?

When investing in a buy to let property, then an individual is essentially using the building as a commercial operation, as opposed to using the property for home dwelling purposes.

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Posted Jan 11, 2011 | by Kyle Evans
Tags: Building Insurance Insurance Let Building Let Building Insurance

State Farm Dropping Last of 125,000 Homeowners Insurance Policies

Homeowners carrying State Farm insurance will find out in the next few weeks whether they are a part of 125,000 policies that the insurer plans to purge. The major homeowners insurance company originally set out to eliminate over 800,000 policies, but settled on the lower number in exchange for a higher interest rate.

Insurer to Keep 700,000 Policies

In May 2009, we reported that State Farm was to hold a meeting with Florida insurance regulators with the intention of ridding itself of hundreds of thousands of property and homeowners insurance policies.

In the negotiations, the insurer was encouraged keep the majority of its policies.

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Posted Jan 09, 2011 | by Eric Flores
Tags: Homeowners Insurance Policies State Farm
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