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Homeowners insurance is one of the most common types of coverage offered. It is designed to cover the cost of repairing or rebuilding your home after an accident and can provide replacement costs for personal belongings when broken or destroyed. …
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Category: Business, Commercial, Personal
Tags: commercial, commercial building, commercial insurance, commercial property, coverage, electrical circuits, electrical hazards, equipment, equipment breakdown, equipment breakdown coverage, insurance carrier, loss prevention, mechanical breakdown, preventive measures, property coverage, property policy
As you start tackling your list in the new year, remember to review and update your insurance policy — especially if you received valuable gifts during the holiday season.
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Most of us have seen the meme going around that refers to a couple of life lessons that have reversed course over the past couple of decades: don’t get in the car with strangers and don’t meet people from the…
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Category: Accident, Auto, Business, Central, Liability, Personal, Technology
Tags: auto accident, auto claim, auto insurance, auto policy, bodily injury, car accident, car insurance, carpool, coverage, driver, insurance, liability claims, liability coverage, liability insurance, Lyft, passengers, Personal, personal auto insurance, personal auto policy, personal policy, policy, professional liability, property damage, ride-sharing, sharing economy, transportation network, transportation network platform, travel, Uber
Subrogation is a common term in the insurance industry but not a common one outside of it. So what is subrogation?
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Category: Business, Claims, Commercial, Home, Household Inventory, Liability, Personal, Prevention, Saving Money, Service
Tags: analytics, artificial intelligence, coverage, damages, premiums, products liability, subrogate, subrogation, third-party
Our office had a couple of interesting conversations regarding digging up yards recently. In one instance, the husband of one of our account managers started to dig up someone’s yard to help them replace sewer lines. To his surprise, when…
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Category: Claims, Home, Personal
Tags: corrosion, coverage, decay, deterioration, drainage system, endorsement, homeowners insurance, homeowners policy, perils, rust, sewer lines, underground piping, utility line, wear and tear
One of the toughest parts of commercial insurance is identifying all of the exposures a business might have. I met with a new client yesterday, Darth Vader, who is the Operations Manager for a business called The Empire. It sounds…
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Category: Business, Commercial, Employees, Liability, Risk Management, Technology
Tags: Builders Risk, business, catastrophic event, cause of loss, cloud storage, commercial, commercial building, commercial insurance, construction, coverage, cyber, cyber security, data, deductible, employee, employees, exposure, exposures, inland marine, liability insurance, risk, risk assessment, safety, underwriter, workers' compensation, workplace, workplace safety
Light industrial is a term you often hear when discussing commercial insurance, but what does it mean? Typically, light industrial refers to operations such as machine shops, sheet metal work (shop only, no installation), and manufacturing of metal goods,…
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Category: Business, Commercial, Employees, Liability, Loss Control
Tags: blanket additional insured, business income coverage, commercial, commercial building, commercial insurance, commercial property, coverage, coverage gap, electrical safety, electronics, equipment, equipment breakdown, equipment breakdown coverage, exposure, food handling, food service industry, liability coverage, light industrial, loss control, loss control inspection, machines, manufacturer, product liability exposure, protection, safety, workplace, workplace safety
There are a few homeowner insurance coverages that almost everybody has but very few think about. Personal liability is one of those coverages and even lower on the totem pole is medical payments coverage. However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t…
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Category: Central, Claims, Liability, Personal
Tags: bodily injury, comprehensive protection, coverage, coverage limits, exclusion, homeowners insurance, homeowners policy, medical payments, Personal, personal liability coverage, protection, slip and fall, slip and fall accidents
With Groundhog Day coming up this Sunday, what do you think Punxsutawney Phil will see when he emerges from his burrow? I’m hoping it’s cloudy and he doesn’t see his shadow, so SPRING can arrive early this year! Spring is…
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Category: Home, Household Inventory, Personal
Tags: coverage, coverage limits, declutter, donate, home insurance, home inventory, homeowner policy, homeowners insurance, homeowners policy, household inventory, insurance policy, policy limits, spring cleaning
I’m pretty sure not too many people have asked themselves that question, but I have because I’ve been in the insurance industry for (obviously) too long. But, not only that, but what kind of insurance would Santa need, and for…
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Category: Auto, Business, Claims, Commercial, Employees, Liability, Personal, Risk Management, Weather
Tags: auto insurance, auto policy, business auto policy, business insurance, business owner, claim, commercial building, Commercial general liability, commercial insurance, commercial lines underwriter, commercial property, commercial underwriting, coverage, errors and omissions, insurance, insurance claim, insurance underwriter, Personal, personal auto coverage, personal auto insurance, personal auto policy, personal injury, personal insurance, personal lines underwriter, professional liability, protecting business property, Santa, Santa Claus, underwriter, workers' comp claims, workers' compensation