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Business Continuation Insurance: What Happens to My Business When I Die?

Introduction When you drive across a one mile long bridge spanning one of the most beautiful lakes in America, Lake Pend Oreille, into our quaint little town of 5000 people, the first business you encounter [read more...]
Specialty Insurance

Garagekeeper Liability: To Bee or Not to Bee

A few years ago a client of mine who was a beekeeper took his 2 ton flatbed truck to a local mechanic to prepare it for his beehive distributing annual trek to California, Oregon, and [read more...]
General Insurance Topics

Texting and Driving: Is This Going Too Far?

Introduction In an article written several months ago titled “A Brief Summary of Evolution of Casualty Insurance,” the author suggested the old adage of “necessity being the mother of invention” as being a driving force [read more...]
Insurance News

Government Mandated Insurance Coverage vs. Private Industry Initiative to Market Insurance Coverage

Introduction When I first read about the topic addressed in this article, my imagination took me to Don Quixote on his mighty war horse charging across the tulip fields of Holland waving his sword and [read more...]
Specialty Insurance

Hurricane Florence: An Insurance Perspective

As an insurance agent of 42 years, I have often wondered when I have seen imagery like devastation from Hurricane Florence if the individuals who were rescued from the rooftops of their homes or ferried [read more...]

Government Mandated Insurance Coverage vs. Private Industry Initiative to Market Insurance Coverage

September 27, 2018 0

Introduction When I first read about the topic addressed in this article, my imagination took me to Don Quixote on his mighty war horse charging across the tulip fields of Holland waving his sword and [read more…]

Florida Struggles with AOB Abuses

March 15, 2018 0

Dealing with an insurance claim adjuster is not a task most insureds ever become comfortable with. They hear so many stories of how people were treated when they submitted a claim they just don’t want [read more…]

The Assignment of Benefits Scam in Florida

February 18, 2018 0

The use of an Assignment of Benefit form is not new to the insurance industry and in most instances accomplishes what it was intended to accomplish, but in the State of Florida some unscrupulous attorneys [read more…]

Insurance Rates: Georgia’s Undesirable Claim to Fame

January 26, 2018 0

While Georgia’s Bulldogs were having a “peach” of a year in 2017 with 13 wins and only 2 losses, the Peach State had a reoccurring record with insurance rates they wish they could get rid [read more…]

girl looking at unclaimed life insurance dollars on a table

The Lost Treasure in Georgia – Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits

January 22, 2018 0

An interesting article appeared in the Associated Press dated Dec. 16, 2016, in which it was reported nearly 600 Georgians were united with more than $6.6 million of lost or misplaced life insurance death proceeds [read more…]

State Farm to Help Georgia State University Students – Like a Good Neighbor

January 22, 2018 0

While watching television the other night, a commercial was being run regarding an insurance company who was posing the scenario “when your insurance company isn’t doing insurance what is it doing?” Made me start thinking [read more…]

Losing Your Home in the Fires: Replace vs. Move On

by Glen M in Homeowner's Insurance 0

Homeowners affected by the great fires in California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Montana; homeowners affected by hurricanes and tornadoes in Louisiana, Texas, up the eastern seaboard states; and homeowners in other states where they lost [read more...]