Independent vs Captive Agents
Why Pizza affects your Life Insurance Rates
Blood pressure is one of several health factors companies consider when deciding your life insurance rates. Having high blood pressure adds stress to your arteries and leads to serious problems such as heart disease and strokes. Unlike some life insurance pricing...
Insurance 101 – Independent Agents
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More price hikes likely for government insurance markets
Early moves by insurers suggest another round of price hikes and limited choices will greet insurance shoppers around the country when they begin searching for next year's coverage on the public markets established by the Affordable Care Act. Insurance companies still...
Why You Are Taking on More Than You Can Handle With Direct Life Insurance
Posted: 08/30/2016 6:45 PM EDT By Marty Agather Life insurance is a necessity, especially if you are married and have children or other dependents who rely on you for financial support. If you have not purchased life insurance before, or if you are looking for...
Warren Buffett thinks the ‘elite’ have wasted $100 billion ignoring his best investment advice
May 4, 2017 By Business Insider, Contributor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will host its annual meeting on Saturday. The event has become a huge occasion and is sometimes called “Woodstock for Capitalists” or “Buffettpalooza.” BI will cover it, and you can check...
Chubb’s Response to Construction Costs
Chubb is committed to making sure that our mutual customers’ homes are insured for the full cost of reconstruction. As part of this, we establish an annual Construction Cost Adjustment Factor (CCAF) to maintain adequate coverage for our policyholders,and each year we...
Replacement Cost Versus Market Value – A Loss Scenario Case Study
BACKGROUND South Dakota, March 2, 2011: The homeowner was smoking a cigar in the garage and dropped the ashes into a garbage can. The ashes smoldered all night in the can and eventually caught the garage on fire. Fire spread into and throughout the home. The fire...
The Hartford Posts Fourth Quarter Loss
The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. posted an $81 million fourth-quarter loss, due primarily to a $423 million charge related to a retroactive reinsurance agreement for asbestos and environmental liability exposures. The investment and insurance company...
The $100 Billion Reason Investors Love Trump’s Bank Deregulation Order
The six biggest U.S. banks could potentially return more than $100 billion in capital to investors over time through dividends and share buybacks if the Trump administration succeeds in a push to loosen bank regulation. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a...