Insurance Blog

Sitting poolside at a vacation hotspot is not the place where you want to worry about the protection of your home because you didn't take the time to appropriately secure and insure your property.Most burglaries occur in July and August. Homeowners Insurance claims for theft total about $1 billion annually, with the average claim around $2,500.In 2008,...

Despite increasing natural disasters around the globe, P/C insurers have remained fiscally strong. Here's an interesting article from National Underwriter that demonstrates how insurers' conservative and strong underwriting has helped the industry withstand some of the world's greatest natural disasters.The number of meteorological catastrophe-driven...

WASHINGTON-The Senate, last night, extended the long delayed National Flood Insurance Program, an action that one agent group declared unacceptable due to political wrangling.The reauthorization, which extends the program until Sept. 30, is retroactive, according to officials of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America, whose president...

The Fourth of July is a day of celebration for millions of Americans. Picnics, barbecues and, of course, noisy and spectacular fireworks are all part of the festivities. Independence Day, however, can be dangerous if safety is not a priority.Fireworks caused 22,000 fires in 2008, which resulted in 7,000 injuries and $42 million in property damage,...