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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...]
General Insurance Topics

When Should I Hire an Attorney to Handle an Insurance Claim

During my 42 year career as an insurance agent, I heard several insurance claims adjusters say, “This claim settlement would be so much easier if the client would just hire an attorney.” It always struck [read more...]
General Insurance Topics

Insurance Automation & Bots (The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling)

I was having lunch the other day with two of my brothers-in-law when the subject of purchasing car and homeowner insurance online came up. The one, a retired chief of police from a large metropolitan [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…]

Doggin’ it Out: Dog Bites & Homeowner’s Liability Insurance

by Glen M in Homeowner's Insurance 0

For the last 20 plus years of my mother’s life, although she had ten children and countless grandchildren and great grandchildren, her most treasured companion was a little dog named Mitzi. She adored that little [read more...]