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Insureds Rarely Have Home Inventories Despite Benefits, Say Claims Pros
Oct 6 2014 // Despite big storms and wildfires highlighting the need, home inventories are rare, say insurance industry experts. An Allstate Insurance survey of Atlanta homeowners found that while than more than 90 percent of homeowners...
Insureds Rarely Have Home Inventories Despite Benefits, Say Claims Pros
Sep 8 2014 // Despite big storms and wildfires highlighting the need, home inventories are rare, say insurance industry experts. A recent Allstate Insurance survey of Atlanta homeowners found that while than more than 90 percent of...
Insureds Rarely Have Home Inventories Despite Benefits, Say Claims Pros
Aug 18 2014 // Despite big storms and wildfires highlighting the need, home inventories are rare, say insurance industry experts. A recent Allstate Insurance survey of Atlanta homeowners found that while than more than 90 percent of...
Floor Collapses at Texas Home, 36 Taken to Hospitals
Jun 30 2014 // A floor collapsed under a large crowd of people gathered for a religious event at a suburban Houston home, sending three dozen people to hospitals, though most suffered minor injuries, authorities said. The collapse...
University of Alabama Researchers Show Small Changes Can Make Big Difference During Tornadoes
Jun 16 2014 // Surviving a tornado in a wood-frame residential home is enhanced by an intact roof and standing walls, but light-weight garage doors can be the weak link to allowing high winds and pressure changes into a home that can...
Wyoming Parking Garage Shifted by Creeping Landslide
Apr 23 2014 // A small parking structure is the latest victim of a slow-moving landslide in Jackson, Wyo. Town officials say part of the two-story parking garage serving a restaurant and other businesses has shifted 3 or 4 inches. They...
Garage Liability or Garagekeepers? That Is the Question
Feb 10 2014 // The terms garage liability and garagekeepers is an issue not only for clients, but most agents and CSRs also find it just as confusing. This article is intended to enlighten those in the insurance industry that may not...
Jury Awards $39M in Fatal Wisconsin Garage Panel Fall
Nov 27 2013 // A jury has found manufacturer Advance Cast Stone mainly responsible for the collapse of a Milwaukee, Wis., parking garage panel that killed a teenager and injured two others in 2010 and awarded $39 million in damages. The...
Garagekeepers Sometimes Lags in the Auto Repair Shop
Mar 5 2013 // The neighborhood auto repair shop or local gas station might seem to be an easy risk to insure. But there are a few misunderstood coverages that agents and brokers should know about, says one California broker specializing...
Garagekeepers Sometimes Lags in the Auto Repair Shop
Feb 11 2013 // The neighborhood auto repair shop might seem to be an easy risk to insure. But there are a few misunderstood coverages that agents and brokers should know about, says one California broker specializing in the auto services...
Russell Bond Buys Independent Garage and Towing Contractors Services in N.Y.
Jan 4 2013 // Buffalo, N.Y.-based insurance wholesaler Russell Bond & Co. Inc. recently acquired Independent Garage and Towing Contractors Services Inc. (IGTC), also of Buffalo. IGTC is a nationwide insurance purchasing group...
Florida Judge Invalidates Windstorm Credit Forms; Regulator Appeals
Dec 3 2012 // A Florida administrative law judge has ruled that some forms used by insurers to determine a homeowner’s windstorm premium credits are invalid because they don’t take into account measures taken to protect...
Western Heritage Creates Garage Division
Dec 6 2011 // Western Heritage Insurance Company has introduced a garage division to help the company grow its garage offerings and partner with new agents. “There is tremendous opportunity in the garage niche, especially with...
Most of $19.9 Billion Madoff vs JPMorgan Case Tossed
Nov 2 2011 // A federal judge threw out most of a $19.9 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co and a $2 billion case against UBS AG by the trustee seeking money for victims of epic swindler Bernard Madoff’s fraud. The...
Port Authority Cleared of Negligence Claims in ’93 WTC Bombing
Sep 28 2011 // Last week, New York State’s high court cleared Port Authority of New York and New Jersey of negligence claims in the 1993 World Trade Center parking garage bombing. The Sept. 22 ruling reverses lower courts’...
Prosecutors: Pennsylvania Garage Modified Forklift For Insurance Fraud
Apr 21 2011 // Prosecutors in Philadelphia say an auto body repair business used a forklift fitted with car bumpers as part of large-scale insurance fraud scheme involving a police officer and seven insurance appraisers. Authorities...
Georgia Parking Garage Collapse Blamed on Improper Bolt
Nov 16 2009 // A letter sent to the customers of a parking deck that collapsed last summer blames a bolt for the accident. David Tyndall, whose company leases spaces in the Centergy parking garage, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
Motorists Mutual Launches New Product for Auto Dealerships, Garages
Oct 16 2008 // Motorists Mutual Insurance Company recently launched two new products for franchised auto dealerships and enhanced two existing products for garages and nonfranchised auto dealerships that help independent agencies offer...
Topa Insurance Offers Garage Package in California
Aug 12 2008 // Topa Insurance Co. has a new garage package for auto service and repair shops in California. The package includes garage liability, garage keepers legal liability and property targeting a variety of classes including...
Minn. Experts: Garage Doors Can be Weak Point in Tornado Damage
Jul 8 2008 // When high winds from tornados and severe storms hit, a house’s garage door can be a weak point. And sometimes if a garage door goes, it can be the first step in a disastrous chain reaction. Minnesota has recently...
