10 December, 2010 (14:45) | News | By: Avatar
Zurich Insurance, one of Britain’s largest home insurance providers has noted the huge increase of owner break-ins that is raising alarms. They say that if a homeowner can break into their own property, others surely can. May it be forgotten keys or a stove left cooking with the house keys besides them, the incidents of [...]
Tags: Break-in's, Burglaries, Home Security, UK
10 November, 2010 (14:43) | News | By: Avatar
During summer, when the temperature rises to extremes, more and more people prefer to go out and enjoy summers somewhere else. Much to the delight of burglars and other crooks, who are after easy targets that require little effort for easy money. Security is one of the enemies of the homeowner and lack of which [...]
Tags: Break-in's, Burglars, Summer
10 October, 2010 (03:06) | News | By: Avatar
Homeowners of areas which experience frequent natural disasters like those affected by hurricane Katrina, have insurance firms packing up their bags. Allstate started it all when they began to send out notices to current home insurance policy holders that they will not be offering renewals of their policies with new policies put on hold as [...]
Tags: Allstate, Insurance Non-Renewal, State Farm
10 September, 2010 (03:22) | Basic Insurance, News | By: Avatar
Political analysts say that a change in the presidency might be just what the economy needs to get a fresh start. A complete re-think of their international policy making strategies and stiffer monitoring of financial institutions back home are just come of the measures candidates and citizens alike are saying that must be focused on. [...]
Tags: Financial Crisis Effects, Insurance Gaps
10 August, 2010 (03:21) | Basic Insurance, News | By: Avatar
President Bush has openly admitted that the country needs extensive overhaul of it’s financial market regulation system. The current crisis stems back from the Enron and other multi-national firms being linked to illegal insider trading which shook the financial markets. Then followed the sub-prime lending money woes which had lenders shelling out billions just to [...]
Tags: Insurance Gaps, Market Woes
10 January, 2010 (00:19) | News | By: Avatar
Insurance firms are bracing for more cases of arson as homeowners are now ending up with owing more money that their houses are worth. Desperation is beginning to set in and the weak dollar does no good to the already bad economy. Law enforcement and insurance firms are working hard to prevent and contain these [...]
Tags: Arson, Insurance Fraud, Mortgage
10 December, 2009 (00:13) | News | By: Avatar
Alarming news from the Home Insurance sector is news that in areas such as Florida, insurance companies will not be renewing policies once they expire this year. The state of Florida has suffered a lot of damage from hurricanes in the past years and insurance firms are saying that the costs they paid out during [...]
Tags: Florida Home Insurance News, Hurricane Damage
10 November, 2009 (00:18) | News | By: Avatar
State Farm, is dropping almost 50,000 clients in Florida and has indeed stopped renewing and issuing new home insurance policies for the state. Clients cry foul for most of them have been clients for decades some even without filing a single claim. And others are turning to the courts for resolution. These types of actions [...]
Tags: Florida Home Insurance News, Hurricane Damage
10 October, 2009 (00:16) | News | By: Avatar
Insurance policy holders in areas that are deemed to risky by insurance companies be prepared, to receive notice that your insurance firm is dropping you from their client list and that they are not going to renew your Home’s insurance policy once it expires this year. Metlife has sent mailers informing customers that they are [...]
Tags: Florida Home Insurance News, Hurricane Damage
10 June, 2009 (05:35) | News | By: editor
According to Viale of Cambridge Credit Corp., seventy percent of Americans who avail of a home equity loan or any other type of loan for that matter to pay off credit cards consolidations end up with the same if not a much higher debt within two years or less. Viale’s statistics underline a major trouble [...]