November 6, 2017
When a hurricane blows through, it isn’t just the trees on a homeowner’s property that could be damaged. There could be trees on a business’ property that are damaged as well. Does the commercial property policy provide coverage there? For …
November 1, 2017
Exclusions. Insurance policies are full of them. I’ve been reading some policy forms lately. Some to study, others because they’re interesting to me. It’s kind of a sick hobby, I’ll admit, but it’s not hurting anyone and I’m not asking …
October 25, 2017
Over the last several weeks, I’ve been looking at several policy forms because of different writing and teaching assignments. I’ve been looking especially at property forms. One way that property insurance has evolved over the last 200 years is in …
October 18, 2017
Last week we entered into a discussion of downed trees, in particular, trees downed by a hurricane. We spent our time dealing with the HO-3 policy and how it responds. If you didn’t catch that, take a look at last …
October 11, 2017
We went to a birthday party over the weekend. At one point the conversation spun into hurricane talk, as it does after a storm passes over. We had folks that live all over Florida and the questions always start with, …
October 4, 2017
I have to be a little transparent today. I’ve struggled with writing. I normally have this post written by mid day on Monday, read over it again on Tuesday, and uploaded to the site for publishing first thing Wednesday morning. …
September 27, 2017
Since the first forecasts showed Hurricane Harvey approaching Texas to the impact of Hurricane Irma in the Florida Keys, millions of people were ordered, recommended and asked to evacuate their homes. That gave rise to one question over and over. …
September 20, 2017
When Hurricane Andrew made landfall in August 1992, I was a young soldier. To be honest, I was much more interested in my young Army career than a hurricane. When Hurricane Katrina made landfall in August 2005, I had just …
September 13, 2017
I wasn’t planning on writing about hurricane season again, but circumstances made it feel like the right thing to do. This hurricane season is already memorable, and it’s still got over two months to go. The good news is that …
September 6, 2017
According to dictionary.com, loyalty is the state or quality of being loyal (I guess they never had my English teacher. She told me never to use a word to define itself.); faithfulness to commitments or obligations. (and) faithful adherence to …