Do you need to compare yo...

Do you need to compare your home insurance?

When you decide to buy a homeowners’ insurance policy, you will get...

What are your steps for g...

What are your steps for getting cheap home insurance?

Cheap home insurance is achievable through voluntary excess, the improving...

What criteria of home ins...

What criteria of home insurance have you already considered?

Finding cheaper home insurance can be a challenge. Sometimes unexpected things...

What can protect your hou...

What can protect your house and values? Home insurance!

Regarding the things that are dear to us, and things that we want to ensure,...

Is it standard procedure for home insurance agents to visit your house before they insure it?

I was told by my ex that a home insurance agent was coming to look at the INSIDE of my house. I was under the impression only appraisers came to look at the inside of your home. Do home insurance agents do that now too? What’s the cheapest home insurance?

Posted Sep 24, 2010 | by Eric Flores

Renewable Energy Investment

Just like homeowners insurance is an investment in the security of your home, investments in renewable and sustainable energy are an investment in the security of our planet. Keeping that in mind, here’s a look at the growth in this sector.

Posted Sep 21, 2010 | by Kyle Evans

7 Reasons Why Would I Get Renters Insurance?

The renter insurance is one of the best supporting documents for the renter. The renter policy gives broad coverage to ensure against the personal property of the renter only. The renter act always insist renter to have renter insurance policy because the renter insurance will protect the household goods. You must have to purchase the renter insurance to protect your belongings because the landlord policy could not cover your belonging. It will only cover the damage of the building.

There are six main reason to purchase the renter policy are:

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Posted Sep 21, 2010 | by Eric Flores
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AIG Subsidiary Fined $100,000 for Alleged Deceptive Advertising

As of August, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and law enforcement in 24 states had filed 54 lawsuits and regulatory actions to crackdown on the fraudulent marketing of “medical discount plans” as health insurance. This crackdown has now reached a local level. Like what you see? Click here to sign up for Insurance Networking News weekly newsletter to get the latest on breaking industry news, carrier technology implementations and developing business and technology trends. The Minnesota Department of Commerce recently issued a consent order and levied a $100,000 fine against New York-based National Union Fire Insurance Co. Read more…

Posted Sep 21, 2010 | by Daniel Scott

How to Compare Life Insurance Policies

Life insurance is an important part of creating a financially secure future for yourself, and your family and it is essential to research the various services that are available before making the final decision.

As there are hundreds of life insurance companies that provide insurance to policy holders it is important to compare the services available from each company. Equally important to compare are the types of policies that are being considered.

Coverage
There are many types of life insurance coverage, including cheap life insurance cover options or those that are more expensive. Read more…

Posted Sep 20, 2010 | by Admin

7 Worst Places to Buy Homeowners Insurance

Some places are just more dangerous to live than other places. Whether because of natural disasters, or high crime rates, the homeowners insurance in some parts of the country are simply more expensive than in other, safer parts of the country. Below are some of the worst places as far as insuring your home is concerned:

  1. Southern California: Let’s face it; we’re all convinced it’s going to fall into the Pacific Ocean someday. Their regular earthquakes make sane people ask who would ever want to live on a known fault line anyway. On th

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Posted Sep 20, 2010 | by Kyle Evans

Top 5 Movie Houses You Wouldn’t Want to Insure

If you’re an insurance agent, you understand that there is a certain element of risk the insurance company takes on with any coverage it grants. If the house is lost or damaged due to one tragedy or another, then the company ends up footing the lion’s share of the bill. After all, that’s why people buy homeowners insurance. Here are the top 5 movie houses you wouldn’t want your company to have insured:

  1. Aunt Josephine’s house in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Not only is it precariously perched on a cliff, but the whole thing looks like it’s ready to crumble at any given moment. Chances are m

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Posted Sep 19, 2010 | by Kyle Evans

Condo Insurance in Chicago

Overall the Condo Insurance in Chicago is just about the same as everywhere else there are condos. There are very few differences. Although just as every location is different the insurance purposes are different as well. Chicago has earned the nickname the Windy City; there is a reason for this. Chicago is one of the windiest cities in the entire United States. This brings forth a unique type of insurance policy.

Different Policies for Different Locations

Wind damage is not very common for condos throughout the United States. Although in Chicago the chance of a condo being damaged by wind is a lot higher percentage than most other condos in the United States. Read more…

Posted Sep 17, 2010 | by Admin

Zurich Insurance fined £2 million

The FSA have issued the largest fine in their history. Zurich Insurance were fined £2.275 million after the loss of a data tape in 2008, whilst moving the tape to a new location in South Africa. Zurich did not learn that the tape had been lost until a year after that date. The data held included the personal details of over 46,000 UK customers and many more in South Africa. The tape was never recovered, although it does not appear to have been stolen.

Zurich Insurance had outsourced their data storage security to a South African firm but they had failed to create proper incident reporting lines and, as such, it took over a year for the information concerning the loss to reach them.

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Posted Sep 17, 2010 | by Eric Flores

Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Rose in 2009

The number of Americans with health insurance fell in 2009. About 253.6 million people had public or private health coverage in 2009, down from 255.1 million in 2008. The decline marks the first decline since the government began tracking the figure in 1987, according to Bloomberg. Like what you see? Click here to sign up for Insurance Networking News weekly newsletter to get the latest on breaking industry news, carrier technology implementations and developing business and technology trends. About 50.7 million people lacked health insurance in 2009, up almost 10% from 46.3 million in 2008. This has already proved to impact health insurers’ business. I Read more…

Posted Sep 15, 2010 | by Daniel Scott