Friday, January 12, 2007

Council Of Florida Insurance

Increasing the state's financial exposure from hurricane damage but would largely leave the current insurance structure in place.
Neither man's plan guarantees a specific reduction in property insurance costs in 2007, when most insurers are seeking double-digit rate increases
Insurance industry reaction to Davis' proposal was muted, with insiders saying they had heard few details and could not yet comprehend the scope of the proposal.
"To comment responsibly, you'd have to look at it for days," said Sam Miller of the Florida Insurance Council, an industry group.Crist has also pledged to demand that insurers offer property coverage in the state if they already offer automobile insurance.

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Home Owners Insurance for Las vegas

Think of a guy who is anxious that his hacienda in Miami might be caught in a bubble but doesn't want to cash out and move. If he buys a put option on the Miami housing-price index and the value of homes in Miami (including his) slides, the money he makes on the derivative offsets his loss. A put option is the right, but not the obligation, to sell a security at a set price. A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell something at a future date. Both are derivatives because they derive their value from an underlying asset, in this case, real estate. The notional value of the futures contract is about $50,000 and is bought on margin with just a few percent down, which means you can get badly burned. Since the May debut, developers and hedge funds are among the big buyers.

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Las Vegas Home owners Insurance

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Loan secrets Revealed

I grew up in Northern California where at age 15 I ended up homeless, and not by choice. My most prized possession at that age was a can opener. By Gods Divine Grace, I met the owner of a gym and group of bodybuilders who took a special interest in me, got me off the streets and put me on the path to becoming Mr. North America. This catapulted me toward an amazing opportunity to help build, from the ground up, one of the most successful nutrition companies in the world.I then moved on to start my own consulting firm designed to help small business owners build successful business plans. It was then that my company was introduced to the mortgage industry by a client and realized I could do even far greater good expanding out and helping individuals secure their homes, their families and futures in the same way that group of bodybuilders reached out to me so long ago.Its not enough to just help you find a great loan. Our job is to help you take control of your money, build a 20 to 30 year financial plan that secures your home.

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Online HOme owners Insurance - Hartford

JPMorgan Chase Vastera International Trade Services is designed to aid companies in meeting demands of the international marketplace. Bank-to-Bank Reimbursement streamlines letter-of-credit (LC) transactions processed in U.S. dollars or Euros between banks that deal in different currencies and between banks that do not have an account relationship. Export letters of credit protect against nonpayment by overseas and domestic customers. JPMorgan Chase Vastera will receive the LC on your behalf and verify its authenticity. Standby LCs substitute Chase's name on the exporter's behalf to assure the counterparty of one's ability to meet the financial commitment of a domestic or international business transaction.
Export working capital loan allows export-related accounts receivable and inventory to become loan collateral to support foreign purchase orders. Chase Trade Channel serves as an Internet portal and single point of access to Web-enabled trade applications and processes, including trade information retrieval and transaction initiation, trade document preparation and purchase order management.

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House Insurance - Los Angeles

Global competition is now persuading many to rethink the whole issue of employment. McKinsey warned in August that the high cost of doing business in Sweden would force companies to "move 100,000 to 200,000 jobs offshore in the next 10 years." Sweden has enjoyed outstanding economic growth, but it came in part because companies shed jobs to boost productivity.
At the world's largest IKEA, in Kungens Kurva outside Stockholm, what you don't see is as important as what you do. Venture inside, and you'll find wide aisles, dream-home displays, caravans of pushcarts and trolleys and stack upon stack of every conceivable item you could want for your homenot to mention armies of shopping-overdosed families heading for the self-service cafeteria.

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Home Insurance of Los Angeles

Frank N. Darras is America's leading plaintiff's attorney representingdisabled policyholders and long-term care insureds. He is annually singledout for his vigilant work helping those unable to afford representationbecause he remembers his humble beginnings and tackles our country's mostdifficult cases. Darras has achieved Super Lawyer status by Los AngelesMagazine and the Daily Journal lists him as one of the Outstanding Lawyers inAmerica. He is featured in Best Lawyers in America 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.Darras has been selected one of the Top 500 Litigators in America by Lawdragonand recently was recognized as one of the Top 500 Leading Lawyers in America.

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Australia's Insurance Group

The offer values Promina at 17.9 times the company's estimated 2006 earnings, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Insurance Australia Group, the nation's largest auto and home insurer, trades at 15.3 times estimated earnings, and QBE Insurance Group, the biggest property and casualty insurer, trades at 15.2 times estimated earnings.
Suncorp bids $5.8 bln for Promina - Washington Post
Suncorp's shares initially rose 5.5 percent to a recordA$23.52 on the prospect that a bank, possibly Westpac BankingCorp. , might scoop up Suncorp before it expands ininsurance. In the last half-hour of trading, however, the stockfell to close down 0.5 percent at A$22.20.

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Australia home based business Insurance

Buying Promina, the nation's second-largest car and houseinsurer, may help Suncorp Chief Executive Officer John Mulcahyreverse a slump in premium growth and thwart possible takeoverattempts. The purchase would further test his marriage ofbanking and insurance, a model abandoned globally by CitigroupInc. and Credit Suisse Group.
The purchase by Suncorp, also the country's No. 6 bank, wouldbe the largest in Australia's financial-services industry since.Commonwealth Bank of Australia bought Colonial Ltd. for A$9.6billion in 2000, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Suncorp ChiefExecutive Officer John Mulcahy last month said he'd hiredCitigroup Inc. to explore potential takeovers.

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Maryland's commercial insurance

Community Clinic Inc., with Montgomery County locations in Takoma Park, Silver Spring, Aspen Hill, Wheaton, Gaithersburg and Germantown, recently named Dr. Candace C. Green as its first physician to practice obstetrics and gynecology for pregnant and postpartem Medicaid patients and those with commercial insurance.
But housing counselors said they fear that some of the lending changes in recent years that have opened the door to more minority homeownership are double-edged. They said looser financial standards - and "exotic" products such as interest-only, no-money-down loans - have created a pool of buyers at greater risk of defaulting.

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Maryland Home owners Insurance

Property taxes on my home except for the fact that in El Paso (really in all of Texas for that matter) the return I get in the form of city, county and state services is pathetic. After living in California and knowing people in places like Maryland and Pennsylvania, I know that tax rates are also very high elsewhere. However the quality and spectrum of services that are offered by the cities and counties are on a level that virtually relegates El Paso services to a level offered by third-world countries.

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Tenessee Rural Home owners Insurance

Connatser said many people take for granted the liberty provided by working at a company. For example, self-employed individuals don't get paid for "slop" - things like chatting with employees, taking bathroom breaks and surfing the Internet on company time.
Then, too, there are startup costs, Social Security and insurance costs, accounting costs, more complex tax forms, business licenses to acquire, capital to raise and numerous other hardships that are difficult to anticipate.
"Lots of costs are related to things you really can't quantify - you can't sit down and make an accurate calculation about their worth," Connatser said.
All this means that an entrepreneur needs to devote every ounce of energy to the business - and make sure his or her family is on board.
But the state's tried-and-true formula of plentiful jobs, abundant sunshine and low taxes suddenly isn't enough to hold onto thousands of families as real-estate speculators and empty nesters are snapping up property, shrinking the supply of affordable homes for newcomers who traditionally pumped up school enrollment.

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Sudden Low Taxes

Ranking fourth in population among states, Florida remains one of the fastest-growing places in the country, adding an average of 1,000 new residents a day to its total of 18.3 million. But the state's tried-and-true formula of plentiful jobs, abundant sunshine and low taxes suddenly isn't enough to hold onto thousands of families as real-estate speculators and empty nesters are snapping up property, shrinking the supply of affordable homes for newcomers who traditionally pumped up school enrollment. And, despite being spared so far this year, there are signs of growing weariness following eight hurricanes that plowed into the Sunshine State in 2004 and 2005, causing insurance rates to skyrocket and some residents to move away before the next big storm hits.

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Protection Plans

The way insurance as a business works fights either an easy or a comprehensive fix that will yield premium stabilization, much less reductions. All roads lead back to policyholders, even the state's protections plans like the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, Citizens Insurance and the brand new Commercial Property and Casualty Joint Underwriting Authority (CPCJUA), formed as business property insurance availability dries up across the state. The laws creating those plans are only viable because they carry the provision that, in the event the fund is totally expended, all Florida policyholders will be assessed to make up any shortfall.

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Increase of property Tax

Some landlords gave up. Charles Adams of Citrus Park owned two rental homes and sold both of them as tax bills became too much. He sold a 1,300-square-foot rental home in Ballast Point at a time when neighbors were building enormous new homes, driving up his property tax bill at a $1,000-a-year clip. He waited until after the death of a longtime tenant to sell an 800-square-foot home in Palm River last year.

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Florida Mobile Home Insurance

I've heard of people's insurance going from $1,500 to $4,000 for places that aren't worth more than $20,000," Lakeland resident Linda Snavely told the insurance committee Thursday morning. "I'm afraid people are going to stop purchasing in Florida and we're going to end up with a blighted area. What a horrible thing for Florida.
During this same time frame, our increased rates will be taking hold causing revenues and profitability to accelerate. On top of all this, our highly profitable general liability book of business is continuing to expand geographically across the country, as we are now producing business in 6 states - Florida, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, and South Carolina with an additional 5 states set to open up within the next 12 months, which are California, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri and Virginia.

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Florida's Real Estate Insurance

The AP-AOL Real Estate poll of 2,001 adults, including 289 recent homebuyers and 401 likely future homebuyers, was conducted by telephone Sept. 19-26 by Ipsos. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points for all adults, 6 percentage points for recent homebuyers and 5 percentage points for likely future homebuyers.
$3.00 per share for 2006 will beat the record earnings of $1.95 per share recorded in calendar year 2005 by over 50%. I am guiding now for several reasons. We have not experienced the same weather conditions as the prior two years and with developing El Nino conditions in the central and eastern Pacific, in which hurricane activity during such conditions is rare, reinsurance costs going forward should migrate lower next year. During this same time frame, our increased rates will be taking hold causing revenues and profitability to accelerate.

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Mobile Home Insurance - Orlando Business Journal

On top of the mortgage payment, you will likely have insurance and taxes, which must be folded into the $800. At the end of a 10-year period, you could invest the difference of $50,000-plus, which should easily have grown to in excess of $100,000.
Nearly half (48.2 percent) said they can't afford to pay what's being required of them to cover their share of their community's storm-related insurance costs, and more than two thirds (68.3 percent) said the increases are causing them or their neighbors to consider selling their property and leaving the state.
There is no way on an $800-a-month mortgage payment that your equity would grow to anything like that. This is even taking into account a reasonable expectation of an increase in value.

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Journal of Mobile home Insurance in Florida

A total of 702 community association property owners responded to the poll in a representative sampling of sentiment over the insurance crisis in Florida's nearly 68,000 condo, co-op, mobile home, timeshare and homeowner associations statewide. The survey was conducted by the 4,000 member Community Association Leadership Lobby (CALL), a not-for-profit advocacy group established in 2003 by the law firm Becker & Poliakoff to represent common-interest ownership communities.

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Customer service - Mobile HomeOwner Insurance

Privately held Empire Equity Group, Inc. has been in business since 1983 focusing on exceptional customer service and a diverse product offering. Based in Montvale, NJ, Empire has nearly three hundred offices throughout the United States operating under both the Empire Equity Group, Inc. and 1st Metropolitan Mortgage brands. Empire has served more than forty thousand customers in the last two years. Through its Preferred Lender Program the mortgage broker focuses on industry relationship building and long term partnerships as a way of reaching its goals of offering the highest levels of service with the widest array of loan products to serve the company.

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Fair Market Value - Florida Mobile Home Insurance

Slightly fewer, 78 percent, worry about paying more than the fair market value at the time. Americans overwhelmingly agree that it is difficult for most first-time homebuyers to buy a home
Almost half, 46 percent, of Americans say that the housing market in their area is overpriced, and about the same number, 49 percent, believe that housing prices in their area will go up in the next two years.
Younger people, those with at least some college education, and those with household incomes greater than $75,000 are among those most likely to have purchased a home in the past two years. Rising interest rates, 84 percent, were cited most often as something future homebuyers worry about when thinking about buying a home.

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Insurance for Studying

MONTROSE — The Colorado Quitline, a free telephone service that helps callers quit smoking and using tobacco, has announced that it is now offering free nicotine replacement therapy in the form of patches to anyone who enrolls in the cessation program. Anyone wanting to quit and take advantage of this free ongoing offer should call the Colorado Quitline (1-800-639-QUIT). This service is available in English and Spanish, seven days a week. This service is also available for the deaf and hard of hearing at TTY: 800-259-2656. Because of the large volume of calls you may receive a busy signal.

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Home study coarse Insurance

But within this year's total there is a bigger proportion than ever of people who have been accepted to do foundation degrees. The number of people accepted for full-time foundation degrees - to be completed in two years - is at least 15% higher than last year. When the number accepted to do part-time foundation degrees is added, the total growth on last year is expected to be as much as 30%, according to Derek Longhurst, chief executive of Foundation Degree Forward, the body that supports their development.
State Rep. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach, an architect of the Democratic plan, praised Davis' version. "If you want a substantial rate reduction, this is the only plan that will do it," Gelber said. "The other guy's plan is simply cosmetic. It's to get them through election day, but it will not lower your rates substantially.

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Insurance Profits

Serious allegations of abuse over storm-related expenditures -- such as those under investigation at Hallandale Beach's Parker Plaza condominium -- send a clear signal that we must aggressively pursue a solution to this insurance crisis, even as we prosecute those who try to profit from insurance-related graft and corruption.
Spiraling storm-related insurance premiums put a strain on our communities and compromise the ability of elected volunteer community association leaders to manage them effectively. Such premiums prevent allocation of sums prudent boards should channel to protective measures to reduce the risk of future hurricane damage and tempt international insurers back to Florida.
Skyrocketing insurance premiums, on top of financing, collection and management of huge sums to cover insured and uninsured storm related damages, threaten unnecessarily to fan the flames of contention and spur conflict in even well-governed communities across the state.
This has got to stop and our elected officials must act now if Florida is going to continue to remain attractive for individuals and families seeking secure and affordable lifestyles in our beautiful state

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Florida State Home owners Insurance

Nearly half (48.2 percent) said they can't afford to pay what's being required of them to cover their share of their community's storm-related insurance costs, and more than two thirds (68.3 percent) said the increases are causing them or their neighbors to consider selling their property and leaving the state.
The lack of affordable housing is strangling our community," said law professor William Quigley, director of the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University. "How do you have food, music, culture? How do you have hospitals, schools and drugstores? Every one of our institutions is built on working class people who historically have been underpaid, but one of the excuses for underpaying people has been that New Orleans was a relatively low-cost place to live. It's not anymore.

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Nation wide Insurance

State officials should consider capping local government spending from property taxes, according to a report Gilreath has forwarded to commission members. Only after that, should they look at reducing reliance on property taxes using something like an additional sales tax.
Take the example of Nationwide Insurance Co. of Florida's recent proposed increase, submitted in July and revised last month. The company wants to raise rates by an average of 71.4 percent statewide, but is calling for even larger increases in South Florida -- as high as 82.1 percent in Broward and 105.8 percent in Palm Beach County -- where there's a high risk of storms. Other parts of Florida, such as the Panhandle, are facing significant price increases, too, to bring homeowners prices in line with storm risk.

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Huge Insurance Firms

Yet the insurance companies, to a firm, argue their policies -- most of which contain language clearly promising to pay for hurricane destruction, a premise upon which the policies were initially sold to unsuspecting property owners -- actually cover only wind damage.
The flooding, the huge insurance firms steadfastly assert, is another matter. In other words, you would need additional flood insurance to collect for Katrina.
Lott -- and thousands of other Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Alabama residents who've filed lawsuits against the insurance firms -- reasonably and logically contend it was the Force 4 and 5 winds of Katrina that pushed the gulf and reservoir, lake and river waters across the beaches, levees and protecting barrier islands and over inland areas of each of those states, and thus were the causal agent of the damage, whether it was wind damage or water damage.

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Real Estate Insurance

Advanced real estate investors often move from residential properties to multi-unit rentals, retail establishments and other income-producing commercial properties. This changes the dynamic from one of increasing the value of a physical space to maximizing the cash flow a property can generate over time, Licastro said. For an education on this topic, Licastro recommends Jack Cummings's "Real Estate Finance and Investing Manual" (Prentice Hall, 1997). "It probably has about 75 percent of what you need to know," he said. For more reading, McBride said, try "What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow . . . And 36 Other Key Financial Measures," by Frank Gallinelli (McGraw-Hill, 2001). It discusses how to gather data, estimate the value of income properties, learn details sellers don't want to share and more, he said: "It really takes you step by step how you make a decision whether to get involved in real estate."

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Home Buyers Insurance

You may have seen the preliminary findings of Government research last week (to be announced Nov/Dec) showing that 30 percent of house sales fall through AFTER professional fees have been incurred . We have a client who believes that solicitors/estate agents are certain to start losing business if they don't automatically offer Home Buyers Insurance to their clients. For comments on this debate, relevant stats on the subject, or information on Home Buyers Expense Insurance in general, please get in touch. In the meantime, we have attached a press release on the subject (released today) from OneMove.

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Business Insurance

Renters and homeowners may be eligible for low-interest disaster loans for home or personal property losses, based on the type and extent of uninsured or underinsured disaster-related losses. Dont let the name fool you. In a presidential declaration, SBA is the primary source of long-term financial assistance. The SBA offers disaster loans up to $200,000 to repair disaster-damaged primary residences. Homeowners and renters are eligible for up to $40,000 to replace damaged personal property such as furniture and clothing. Loans to businesses of all sizes and nonprofit organizations up to $1.5 million are available to repair or replace damaged real estate, machinery and equipment, supplies, and inventory. For information on SBA low-interest loans, residents and business owners in the eligible counties.

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Small Business Insurance at Home

Unaudited National City Corporation CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS ($ in millions) 2006 3rd Qtr 2nd Qtr 1st Qtr EARNINGS Tax-equivalent interest income $2,298 $2,243 $2,153 Interest expense 1,148 1,076 969 Tax-equivalent net interest income 1,150 1,167 1,184 Provision for credit losses 73 60 27 Tax-equivalent NII after provision for credit losses 1,077 1,107 1,157 Fees and other income 916 783 644 Securities gains (losses), net - 1 12 Noninterest expense 1,184 1,174 1,149 Income before taxes and tax- equivalent adjustment 809 717 664 Income taxes 250 238 197 Tax-equivalent adjustment 8 6 8 Net income $551 $473 $459 Effective tax rate 31.2% 33.5% 30.1%

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Small Business Insurance

JPMorgan Chase Vastera International Trade Services is designed to aid companies in meeting demands of the international marketplace. Bank-to-Bank Reimbursement streamlines letter-of-credit (LC) transactions processed in U.S. dollars or Euros between banks that deal in different currencies and between banks that do not have an account relationship. Export letters of credit protect against nonpayment by overseas and domestic customers. JPMorgan Chase Vastera will receive the LC on your behalf and verify its authenticity. Standby LCs substitute Chase's name on the exporter's behalf to assure the counterparty of one's ability to meet the financial commitment of a domestic or international business transaction. Export working capital loan allows export-related accounts receivable and inventory to become loan collateral to support foreign purchase orders. Chase Trade Channel serves as an Internet portal and single point of access to Web-enabled trade applications and processes, including trade information retrieval and transaction initiation, trade document preparation and purchase order management.

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Insurance for Home owners pet

If a court finds a dog to be dangerous, the owner is required to obtain a $50 dangerous-dog registration within 10 days, including a tag identifying the dog as dangerous. By law, dangerous dogs must be confined in the owner's home or in a securely enclosed and locked structure, and they be leashed and muzzled when out in public. Additionally, the owner must obtain liability insurance coverage of at least $100,000 that covers animal bites, and enter the dog in the state's dangerous-dog registry
Insurers typically won't cover pets in the first eight weeks of life, or when they enter their twilight years. They often refuse to accept dogs older than eight or nine years and cats older than 10. If you already have cover your insurer should continue to offer protection, but remember to confirm before you buy.

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General Insurance for Health and life

The options are still limited though. For instance, most companies like the National Insurance Company, Oriental Insurance and Bajaj Allianz only provide a basic insurance for death due to illness or accident and permanent disability following accident or illness. And except for National Insurance, which provides insurance for cats as well, the rest reserve it only for exotic breeds of dogs, watchdogs and hunting dogs, all under the age of eight years. We look at a pet as an economic asset and reimburse the owner whatever he/she loses with its death, says K. Krishnamurthy, head of Underwriting, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance.

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Higher Premium for Residents.

When several committee members said a house’s age helps determine its premium, Leslie Chapman-Henderson cautioned that it can’t be the only determining factor, either. “We can’t draw a line in the sand,” she said, and decide that houses built before a certain date have to pay higher premiums. Some older houses, she said, were built during decades of heavy storms and are stronger than some newer homes.

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Hartford Homeowners Insurance - Increase in Property Taxes

Some landlords gave up. Charles Adams of Citrus Park owned two rental homes and sold both of them as tax bills became too much. He sold a 1,300-square-foot rental home in Ballast Point at a time when neighbors were building enormous new homes, driving up his property tax bill at a $1,000-a-year clip. He waited until after the death of a longtime tenant to sell an 800-square-foot home in Palm River last year.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Regulation of Insurance companies

The Office of Insurance Regulation has not yet sanctioned how Citizens distributes that increase in individual territories.
Privately held Empire Equity Group, Inc. has been in business since 1983 focusing on exceptional customer service and a diverse product offering. Based in Montvale, NJ, Empire has nearly three hundred offices throughout the United States operating under both the Empire Equity Group, Inc. and 1st Metropolitan Mortgage brands. Empire has served more than forty thousand customers in the last two years. Through its Preferred Lender Program the mortgage broker focuses on industry relationship building and long term partnerships as a way of reaching its goals of offering the highest levels of service with the widest array of loan products to serve the company.

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Offer on Insurance .

Insurance companies offer discounts for certain home improvements that are likely to help avoid damages resulting from hurricanes or windstorms. The article further stated: "Most homeowner's insurers give discounts for improvements that are likely to help avoid damages, such as hurricane shutters or roof improvements. More home hardening making houses better able to withstand storms has been hit on by Gov. Jeb Bush and other officials as a big part of solving Florida's insurance problem.

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International Insurers

Spiraling storm-related insurance premiums put a strain on our communities and compromise the ability of elected volunteer community association leaders to manage them effectively. Such premiums prevent allocation of sums prudent boards should channel to protective measures to reduce the risk of future hurricane damage and tempt international insurers back to Florida.
Skyrocketing insurance premiums, on top of financing, collection and management of huge sums to cover insured and uninsured storm related damages, threaten unnecessarily to fan the flames of contention and spur conflict in even well-governed communities across the state." - In Boca Raton, FL, Bonnie Dearborn, a member of the elected Board of Directors at the Homeowners Association of Lands End, who also sits on the CALL Member's Council, said: "Following last year's hurricane season, many residents of Florida homeowners associations have been hammered by a combination of uninsured losses for storm-related damage and sky-high hikes in their association's insurance premiums. This has got to stop and our elected officials must act now if Florida is going to continue to remain attractive for individuals and families seeking secure and affordable lifestyles in our beautiful state."

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Insurance Premiums

In Hallandale Beach, FL, City Commissioner Joe Gibbons, a condo board President who sits on CALL's Members Council and is State Representative-elect for District 105, said: "Volunteer community association Boards and association members are in crisis over how to cover skyrocketing insurance costs, while also safeguarding community finances against abuses that can occur when so much money is flowing through so few hands.
Serious allegations of abuse over storm-related expenditures -- such as those under investigation at Hallandale Beach's Parker Plaza condominium -- send a clear signal that we must aggressively pursue a solution to this insurance crisis, even as we prosecute those who try to profit from insurance-related graft and corruption."

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Insurance Crisis

Nine out of 10 property owners living in condos, or who belong to a homeowners association and other community associations in Florida, say the state needs to do more to stem storm-related insurance cost increases.
Eighty-seven percent of respondents to an online poll by Community Association Leadership Lobby from Sept. 22-Oct. 1 said they will be liable for increases in storm-related insurance costs in their communities this year.
Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) said they want more government regulation of the private insurance industry, and 61 percent want Florida to operate as an alternative to private insurers.
Nearly half (48.2 percent) said they can't afford to pay what's being required of them to cover their share of their community's storm-related insurance costs, and more than two thirds (68.3 percent) said the increases are causing them or their neighbors to consider selling their property and leaving the state.

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Insurance Journal

A total of 702 community association property owners responded to the poll in a representative sampling of sentiment over the insurance crisis in Florida's nearly 68,000 condo, co-op, mobile home, timeshare and homeowner associations statewide. The survey was conducted by the 4,000 member Community Association Leadership Lobby (CALL), a not-for-profit advocacy group established in 2003 by the law firm Becker & Poliakoff to represent common-interest ownership communities.

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Florida's Mobile Home for home owners Insurance

Almost half, 46 percent, of Americans say that the housing market in their area is overpriced, and about the same number, 49 percent, believe that housing prices in their area will go up in the next two years. Younger people, those with at least some college education, and those with household incomes greater than $75,000 are among those most likely to have purchased a home in the past two years. Rising interest rates, 84 percent, were cited most often as something future homebuyers worry about when thinking about buying a home. Slightly fewer, 78 percent, worry about paying more than the fair market value at the time. Americans overwhelmingly agree that it is difficult for most first-time homebuyers to buy a home.

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Flickinger Insurance

The story of the poor little boy in "Oliver" has been used by Farmers Insurance Group in its expanded national advertising program.
Discounts of up to 45 percent are available through auto, home and life insurance options through Farmers and another Farmers'-owned company, Foremost.
Flickinger Insurance, in its 23rd year of operation, is a multi-product,insurance and financial services business at 2209 16th St.
Products include commercial, mobil homes, boats, and recreational vehicles.
Health insurance is through Unicare.
"Our goal is to provide maximum services by reviewing clients' needs to offer the most affordable coverage but to properly cover their possession and family needs," said Mrs. Flickinger. "Our nationwide computer service is being continually updated to offer customers access to bill payment and policy review."

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Assurance of Insurance companies

CALIFORNIA Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi last month ordered a Tennessee-based travel insurance company to stop doing business in the state, saying the company was defrauding the consumers it was supposed to protect.
The insurance commissioner said Trip Assured, which is based in Crossville, Tenn., was selling insurance illegally in California. Trip Assured has disputed that assertion, saying what it sold was not insurance.
"No matter what Trip Assured wants to call it, the product they are offering meets the definition of insurance," Garamendi said in a statement issued Oct. 4. "This company's whole reason for being appears to be to defraud and intimidate senior citizens.
The number of complaints we have at any given time is infinitesimal compared to the number of policies we have in force," McGinnity said.
Companies are given the opportunity to address and correct complaints and, according to the Better Business Bureau, Trip Assured had done so to the bureau's satisfaction in all 76 cases.

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Property Taxes

Property taxes on my home except for the fact that in El Paso (really in all of Texas for that matter) the return I get in the form of city, county and state services is pathetic. After living in California and knowing people in places like Maryland and Pennsylvania, I know that tax rates are also very high elsewhere. However the quality and spectrum of services that are offered by the cities and counties are on a level that virtually relegates El Paso services to a level offered by third-world countries.

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Insurance for Home study Coarse

Wilmington Trust continues to hold the top market position for Delaware's retail banking market, according to newly available federal deposit data. Wilmington Trust holds $7.6 billion in Delaware deposits, up 9 percent from 2005, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data, which reflects deposits as of June 30. The state's No. 2 retail bank, PNC Bank Delaware, has $2.4 billion, up 4 percent from 2005. Among the five largest retail banks, WSFS saw its deposits grow fastest, rising 23 percent to $1.6 billion. Wilmington-based WSFS, the oldest bank in Delaware, remains No. 4 by deposits in the state. No. 3 Wachovia saw its deposits rise by 13 percent to $1.8 billion, while No. 5 Citizens gained 8 percent to $1.3 billion.

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Home Insurance - Property Coverage

Crist has also pledged to demand that insurers offer property coverage in the state if they already offer automobile insurance. And he has said he’ll seek to undo a 1998 law change that has allowed insurers to create Florida-only subsidiaries. He has also joined a long list of Florida leaders, including Davis, who want the federal government to create a national catastrophe fund.
The survey -- filled out by about 700 respondents -- was conducted from Sept. 20 to Oct. 1 on behalf of the Condominium Association Leadership Lobby, formed by the Fort Lauderdale law firm Becker & Poliakoff. Lawyers from the firm appeared at last week's Property and Casualty Insurance Reform Commission meeting in Tallahassee.

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Insurance Plan

State officials should consider capping local government spending from property taxes, according to a report Gilreath has forwarded to commission members. Only after that, should they look at reducing reliance on property taxes using something like an additional sales tax. They should also study a fix that -- based on Volusia County numbers at least -- might eliminate inequities between homeowners under the current "Save Our Homes" system without draining the tax base on which governments rely.

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Global Insurance Companies

Global reinsurance companies scoff at Insurance companies profit while home and business owners suffer.They question whether the Cat Fund will have sufficient capital to pay off billions in claims from a really catastrophic hurricane without having to attract private investors who will want the same deal that reinsurance companies will offer them.
Take the example of Nationwide Insurance Co. of Florida's recent proposed increase, submitted in July and revised last month. The company wants to raise rates by an average of 71.4 percent statewide, but is calling for even larger increases in South Florida -- as high as 82.1 percent in Broward and 105.8 percent in Palm Beach County -- where there's a high risk of storms.
Parts of Florida such as the Panhandle, are facing significant price increases, too, to bring homeowners prices in line with storm risk.

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Service Of Insurance Companies

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Catherine of Siena Church, Fort Thomas. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at A.C. Dobbling & Son Funeral Home, Fort Thomas. Burial will be in St. Stephen Cemetery, Fort Thomas. Memorials are suggested to Hospice of the Bluegrass-Northern Kentucky, 1403 Alexandria Pike, Fort Thomas.
COURT HOUSE - Three persons were injured Oct. 5 at 7:49 a.m. on Goshen Road when a van in which they were riding crashed into a truck, overturned and trapped the front-seat passenger. A 3-year-old boy was ejected from the vehicle but suffered only scrapes. He was flown to Cooper Medical Center, Camden. According to Middle Township police, a Ford van crashed into a plumbing truck, then overturned. Both vehicles were northbound in the 600 block when the van, operated by Michael Conley of Dennisville, attempted to pass a plumber's work truck operated by Michael Budd of Court House as the work truck was turning into a driveway. Conley's vehicle made contact with the plumber's truck. That caused the van to spin out of control and flipped. The front seat passenger, Wendy Esher was extricated by Court House firefighters and transported to Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital for minor injuries

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Difficulty of obtaining Insurance

Higher premiums and the difficulty of obtaining insurance in certain areas only add to residents' worries about a growing property-tax problem. If they have to continually pay higher premiums to cover the higher values of their reassessed homes, many residents interviewed last week said it will only be harder for middle class families to pay to maintain a home in shore communities.

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Common Misunderstandings about Insurance

Renters and homeowners may be eligible for low-interest disaster loans for home or personal property losses, based on the type and extent of uninsured or underinsured disaster-related losses. Dont let the name fool you. In a presidential declaration, SBA is the primary source of long-term financial assistance. The SBA offers disaster loans up to $200,000 to repair disaster-damaged primary residences. Homeowners and renters are eligible for up to $40,000 to replace damaged personal property such as furniture and clothing. Loans to businesses of all sizes and nonprofit organizations up to $1.5 million are available to repair or replace damaged real estate, machinery and equipment, supplies, and inventory. For information on SBA low-interest loans, residents and business owners in the eligible counties should call 1-800-659-2955 or TTY 1-800-877-8339 for the speech or hearing impaired.

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Insurance companies are home owners best friends.

Homeowners who find their insurance policy isn’t covering losses sufficiently should take the time to review and upgrade their policies, Pachla said. Riders to cover the unexpected, like water backup or food spoilage, can be obtained at a relatively low cost. Travelers Insurance offers $5,000 of water backup coverage for $25 a year, for instance.

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Increase in coverage

veryone, no matter how rich or poor, enjoys saving money. For example, a few weeks ago a multimillionaire real estate investor friend took me to a lavish lunch, which must have cost him at least $100. As we were leaving the restaurant, he saw the city "meter maid" coming down the street. All of a sudden he sprinted to beat her to his Lexus with an expired parking meter so he wouldn't get a $20 parking ticket.

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Recording of assets - Home Insurance

Our major challenge is getting homeowners and businesses to understand the real need to properly identify and record their assets. Often it is too late or somebody experiences a loss before they understand the need to protect their lifestyle by having properly documented assets. Many homeowners and businesses don't think that they will ever be the one to experience a loss. But too often, when a loss is experienced, items are overlooked or undervalued by claims adjusters because there's not proper documentation.

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How to Save Home Owners Property Insurance?

The best way to avoid being over- or underinsured is to ask your insurance agent to estimate your home's replacement cost. Disregard land value. To illustrate, suppose you own a 2,000-square-foot house and in your area it will cost $200 per square foot to reconstruct your residence if it burns to the ground. The result is you should carry about $400,000 replacement cost insurance, even if the market value of your property is greater.

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Mountain view of Insurance companies

Besides, Lott was up-front in telling the Times, "I don't profess to be impartial," and during his justifiable rant he made another outstanding promise -- to introduce yet more legislation that would once and for all force insurers to include in their policies a "prominent listing" of what they refuse to cover. Current home insurance policies, he said, contain muddy, incomprehensible and amorphous language resulting in a "bunch of subterfuges" that make it impossible for common folk, and even most lawyers, to understand.

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Quote of Auto Home Insurance

You may have seen the preliminary findings of Government research last week (to be announced Nov/Dec) showing that 30 percent of house sales fall through AFTER professional fees have been incurred . We have a client who believes that solicitors/estate agents are certain to start losing business if they don't automatically offer Home Buyers Insurance to their clients
If you have a question about coverage, contact your agent first, not the insurance company. We have seen instances where a client calls a company directly with just a simple question, and then a claim gets turned in, and there really was no claim, no damage, and it was a lot of work to get it cleared up, said Ludwig. We tell people to call us first, because when you think about it, theyve been paying premiums all these years, and they are looking for their, quote-unquote, payoff for a claim, and theyre a little disappointed at times when we tell them to really think about it. Because most people carry that $1,000 deductible, and if theyve got a claim for $1,100, were telling them not to turn it in. (Its an excuse for the company to drop their coverage). Thats why were seeing a large increase in $2,500 deductibles.

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Home Buyers Insurance

Cheapest Home owners Insurance

While using internet, search for homeowners insurance quote because it is free and at the same time speedy and you dont need to talk to anyone, hence it is time saving. You can use Internet 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. With online homeowners insurance quote you can get discount from your insurer because there is less administration to do for the insurer. So you can get a discount of 10%- 15%.

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Is Home mortgage good?

Normally, a home mortgage is comprised of a large loan. That's why in most cases a home mortgage can take 15 to 30 years before the borrower can pay back the due amount. In a home mortgage, the due amount to be paid by the borrower stipulates the principal amount of the mortgage and the interest owed relative to the outstanding balance. The real estate taxes and property insurance are also factored into the total mortgage balance.

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Aarp home owners Insurance

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As assistant vice president of corporate finance. In this newly created position, he will be responsible for reviewing and monitoring the financial performance of all properties, exploring growth opportunities for the company and assisting with investor and banking relations. Previously, Minor was a senior investment banking associate with Silver Pacific Advisors. The company also appointed.

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Insurance Companies - Article

An article in The Ledger on Sept. 8 stating that the committee is considering mandating that insurance companies offer discounts for certain home improvements that are likely to help avoid damages resulting from hurricanes or windstorms. The article further stated: "Most homeowner's insurers give discounts for improvements that are likely to help avoid damages, such as hurricane shutters or roof improvements. More home hardening making houses better able to withstand storms has been hit on by Gov. Jeb Bush and other officials as a big part of solving Florida's insurance problem."

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Mobile home owner Insurance

Some landlords gave up. Charles Adams of Citrus Park owned two rental homes and sold both of them as tax bills became too much. He sold a 1,300-square-foot rental home in Ballast Point at a time when neighbors were building enormous new homes, driving up his property tax bill at a $1,000-a-year clip. He waited until after the death of a longtime tenant to sell an 800-square-foot home in Palm River last year.
The dam that was destroyed was used to raise the water level of the Fremont River to meet irrigation ditches along the bank. Hanksville farmer David Johnson said until the dam is rebuilt, farmers will be unable to access the water for their fields. He said he doesn't know how the crops will be irrigated in the spring
To be sure, the picture is mixed. Almost 190,000 renter households exceed the traditional standard spending upward of one-third of their income on housing. But the county also is home to a growing number of luxury renters: households with six-figure incomes that typically spend less than 20 percent of their income on housing.

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Insurance Benefits

The trucking company didn't obtain a DPS report on Mr. Largent's driving record or run a criminal background check on him, according to court documents. If it had, JTM would have learned that Mr. Largent had been arrested for burglary in the early 1970s, convicted of driving while intoxicated in 1980 and convicted of methamphetamine possession in 1984 and sentenced to three months in jail. He was charged with driving while intoxicated in February 1994 but pleaded guilty to reckless conduct, received deferred adjudication and was sentenced to community service. He also had been ticketed five times between 1982 and 1990 for driving without liability insurance, a DPS report showed.
FEMA didn't balk when in 2002 a team of Temple University scientists offered to take on a piece of that job in one of the Philadelphia region's most flood-imperiled sectors, the Pennypack Creek watershed, and to cobble together the funds. Eager for help, FEMA gave a $192,500 grant toward the $700,000 project, hailing it as an example of how remapping might be expedited in trouble spots from Trenton to New Orleans to San Diego.

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Auto home Insurance

Third Largest Auto Insurance Group

The nation's third largest autoinsurance group, The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies, todayannounced that its Progressive Direct(R) brand, which is sold by phone andonline, has signed a promotional agreement with Universal Studios HomeEntertainment to promote the simultaneous HD DVD and DVD releases of "TheFast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" on September 26, 2006 with an onlinesweepstakes and interactive video game and is leveraging Progressive ClaimsService's expertise by providing car repair estimates on the HD DVD. Thisunique "Bonus" feature allows viewers to pick from some of the movie'sselect crash scenes and get an on-screen estimate of the vehicles' damage.The HD DVD will deliver the most advanced interactive features for a movieto date by taking advantage of the flexible HDi(TM) authoring environmentand mandatory features only HD DVD guarantees.

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Car Insurance

When couples get married they not only start a new life together, theyalso merge their assets together. However, one item that many couplesneglect to combine is their auto insurance. "Many insurance companies offerdiscounts for insuring multiple cars," stated Dave Rosh, CEO ofInsurance.com. "By taking advantage of this opportunity, Newlyweds canpotentially save hundreds of dollars off their annual auto insurancepremiums by shopping around and comparing prices.

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Personal Auto car home Insurance

Founded in 1958, 21st Century Insurance Group is a direct-to-consumer provider of personal auto insurance. With $1.4 billion of revenue in 2005, the Company insures over 1.5 million vehicles in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. 21st providessuperior policy features and 24/7 customer service at a competitive price. Customers can purchase insurance, service their policy or report aclaim at 21st.com or on the phone with our licensed insurance professionalsat 1-800-211-SAVE, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Service is offeredin English and Spanish, both on the phone and on the web. 21st Century Insurance Company, 21st Century Casualty Company, and 21st Century Insurance Company of the Southwest are rated A+ by A. M. Best, Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor.

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Awareness of Personal Home Auto Insurance

James Harrison, chief executive of Insurancewide.com, the online insurer comparison service, urged home owners today: “Don’t assume your home insurance covers you for a flood. If you’re not sure whether you live in a flood area, contact your insurer. The environment agency website will also give you a general postcode guide but not an individual address guide. If you are covered against flooding, the golden rule is to check exactly what you are covered for – this is where many homeowners fall foul of the small print.
Listed Events Home Insurance: provides financial security for a pre-defined list of events such as fire, burglary, explosion, earthquake, storm damage, collision from a moving vehicle, electric motor burn out and includes new-for-old cover for items up to 15 years old. You save money by taking out house insurance covering an assessed number of outcomes.

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Home owners insurance - Discount

While using internet, search for homeowners insurance quote because it is free and at the same time speedy and you dont need to talk to anyone, hence it is time saving. You can use Internet 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. With online homeowners insurance quote you can get discount from your insurer because there is less administration to do for the insurer. So you can get a discount of 10%- 15%.
veryone, no matter how rich or poor, enjoys saving money. For example, a few weeks ago a multimillionaire real estate investor friend took me to a lavish lunch, which must have cost him at least $100. As we were leaving the restaurant, he saw the city "meter maid" coming down the street. All of a sudden he sprinted to beat her to his Lexus with an expired parking meter so he wouldn't get a $20 parking ticket.

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Insurance Necessity

The trucking company didn't obtain a DPS report on Mr. Largent's driving record or run a criminal background check on him, according to court documents. If it had, JTM would have learned that Mr. Largent had been arrested for burglary in the early 1970s, convicted of driving while intoxicated in 1980 and convicted of methamphetamine possession in 1984 and sentenced to three months in jail. He was charged with driving while intoxicated in February 1994 but pleaded guilty to reckless conduct, received deferred adjudication and was sentenced to community service. He also had been ticketed five times between 1982 and 1990 for driving without liability insurance, a DPS report showed.

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Dentons Insurance

The trucking company didn't obtain a DPS report on Mr. Largent's driving record or run a criminal background check on him, according to court documents. If it had, JTM would have learned that Mr. Largent had been arrested for burglary in the early 1970s, convicted of driving while intoxicated in 1980 and convicted of methamphetamine possession in 1984 and sentenced to three months in jail. He was charged with driving while intoxicated in February 1994 but pleaded guilty to reckless conduct, received deferred adjudication and was sentenced to community service. He also had been ticketed five times between 1982 and 1990 for driving without liability insurance.

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Dentons Home owners Insurance

Police are still trying to solve a string of at least five arsons. In addition to those five, an accidental fire sparked by a home heater killed a 71-year-old resident Jan. 26. Two fires of undetermined origin struck the same residence at 4349 Denton Way. The first happened in April, when a pile of hay caught fire in the home's yard.
Test purchases from among roughly 300,000 Dior products and 150,000 Vuitton items offered on eBay during the first six months of this year showed that 90% were fakes, LVMH says. The "brand new" Vuitton holdall listed for $188, for example, is certainly going cheap since the genuine article retails for $885 and is sold only at Vuitton boutiques and a handful of high-end retailers such as Neiman Marcus. "It's not enough for eBay to say, 'Tell us there's a counterfeit.' EBay knows, or should know" without being told, says Louis S. Ederer, an intellectual property lawyer at New York firm Torys LLP who has successfully represented Tommy Hilfiger Corp. and others in counterfeiting cases against retailers.

Insurance Assessment

Henry Sanders, a member of the regime board at Seaside Villas I on South Forest Beach Drive on the island, said the board had to have a special insurance assessment of $500 per unit in August to pay for increased insurance costs. That was in addition to an increase in the monthly owner fees to $275 from $233 on the average unit this year, which was done, in part, because of insurance costs.

Auto Home Insurance

The Palm Island Estates Association, which every year sponsors a one-day art festival, is calling for area artists to show their work at "Art in the Palms" on Saturday, Nov. 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This art festival is nestled among the palm trees on a bridgeless barrier island. In addition to original art from artists, lots of music, food, beverages, beer, raffles, and silent auction make this a fun one-day outing. Special transportation to the island via the Palm Island Transit Ferry will be provided to the public. In addition, artists will be allowed to drive on the ferry at no charge to set up and break down. The booth fee is $40. Proceeds benefit the Palm Island Homeowners Association, which supports the Island Kids Scholarship Fund, native landscape restoration, beach clean-ups and the Island Turtle Patrol.

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Advantages in Home Auto Insurance

Under Dominion's policy riders, homeowners who are victimized by identity fraud will be able claim compensation for expenses and time off work required to correct false information or defend themselves against lawsuits, civil or criminal judgments or false information on false consumer credit reports
Council Vice President Terrie Stagliano said she didn’t see the problem with allowing Penney to operate a business out of his home, as there are already commercial and residential buildings on Main Street. She said she is confident that the building will be aesthetically pleasing because no one would visit a business that was in poor shape.

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Insurers raise discounts.

Gov. Jeb Bush questioned whether consumers still could be misled, because some insurers cap the total available discount. State Farm, for instance, allows a home-owner to collect only the discount for shutters, or the discount for a hurricane-hardened door, but not both, according to company filings with state regulators.When you register at OnlineAthens.com we ask you for several personal items. We pledge to respect your right to privacy. We will not provide, sell or lease your personally identifiable information - including name, address, phone number or email - to any third parties. We are gathering this information so that we may better understand how our site is used so that we can make changes and improvements.

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High Premium in Insurance - Why?

Homeowners who find their insurance policy isn’t covering losses sufficiently should take the time to review and upgrade their policies, Pachla said. Riders to cover the unexpected, like water backup or food spoilage, can be obtained at a relatively low cost. Travelers Insurance offers $5,000 of water backup coverage for $25 a year, for instance.
Higher premiums and the difficulty of obtaining insurance in certain areas only add to residents' worries about a growing property-tax problem. If they have to continually pay higher premiums to cover the higher values of their reassessed homes, many residents interviewed last week said it will only be harder for middle class families to pay to maintain a home in shore communities.

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Insurance - Auto and Home

The new venture, called Greenbee, went live yesterday, offering customers a range of general insurance products, as well as travel agency and ticketing services. The company has said it will expand into life insurance, in partnership with Friends Provident, in the New Year, and is finalising a tie-up with Cox & Kings to provide high-end holiday packages.The partnership is effectively following a model pioneered by Tesco. All products will be supplied by partner organisations, such as Axa and Expedia, and next year Friends Provident is expected to join to provide life assurance and Cox & Kings will start offering its up-market travel services.

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Auto and home Insurance

The partnership is effectively following a model pioneered by Tesco. All products will be supplied by partner organisations, such as Axa and Expedia, and next year Friends Provident is expected to join to provide life assurance and Cox & Kings will start offering its up-market travel services
Garry continued: “ Perhaps even more worringly is the finding that many people appear to be seriously under-estimating the value of their home contents. Except for two regions, the South East and East Anglia, people valued their home contents below £15,000. Legal & General has calculated that for an average three bedroomed home the value of the contents could be at least twice that amount, at just over £35,000. We would advise everyone to review their home contents insurance and in particularly check that any purchases made during the summer, such as the new TV to watch the World Cup or for the digital switchover is adequately covered.”

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Insurance for Natural disaster

Heavy rain and flooding has historically been one of the most difficult weather phenomena to forecast and Barclays advises people to make sure they are aware of what to do should they be affected. Finding out where your gas, water and electricity mains are to make sure you can turn them off quickly and keeping important personal documents in sealed plastic bags and safe from areas floodwater can reach are some of the steps that should be followed if the worse happens.Partnering with Endsleigh provides our users with an efficient service that offers them both value for money and peace of mind.Legal & General's director for customer marketing, Claire Stracey, commented: "Our research shows the MoneyMood of the nation has been in save mode since the beginning of this year as the spend mood has fallen.

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Travel Insurance

Be careful not to be under-insured, as landlord's insurance (just like regular buildings insurance) is subject to something called 'averaging', which means your rebuild cover is pro-rata'd. Let's say the rebuild cost is £100,000 and you insure the property for £80,000. If the property gets £50,000-worth of damage and you make a claim, you won't get the full £50,000. Instead, the insurer will pay £40,000, and you'll have to pay the rest.
The Zurich service comes with plenty of added extras, including a free concierge service to help wealthy policyholders with the trials of everyday life, such as booking holidays and restaurants, as well as travel insurance and cover for marquees and any additional homes that they might need to insure.
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