Hurricane Season News

Commercial coverage check ups needed now

Last year’s Katrina-Rita disasters left behind many obstacles to recovery for businesses and with the start of another hurricane season, companies need to prepare for a another wave of predicted natural catastrophes, according to Dallas-based Haynes and Boone LLP Insurance …

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State Farm adjusts rates in Texas State Farm Insurance recently submitted several filings to the Texas Department of Insurance, aiming for a balance with rate adjustments that include a reduction auto rates but an increase in homeowners premiums. The company …

:Lloyd’s forecast for Northeast: Storms, global warming threats are real

The prospect of another nasty hurricane season has everyone in the insurance industry braced for a white-knuckle ride. The spectre of a hurricane hitting a major Northeast population center is hardly the stuff of Hollywood fantasy. Leading forecasters agree there …

Commercial property appeal

Six hurricanes in 2005 caused $57.3 billion in insured losses, according to Insurance Information Institute, with Hurricane Katrina alone accounting for $40.6 billion of that total. And while many of the stories in newspapers and consumer magazines regarding damage from …

Commercial coverage check ups needed now

Last year’s Katrina-Rita disasters left behind many obstacles to recovery for businesses and with the start of another hurricane season, companies need to prepare for a another wave of predicted natural catastrophes, according to Dallas-based Haynes and Boone LLP Insurance …

Judge Upholds Plan to Smoothly Transition Poe Policyholders

Leon County Circuit Judge Janet Ferris has reaffirmed her approval of the Florida Department of Financial Services’ plan to protect and to smoothly transition nearly 330,000 policyholders with Atlantic Preferred, Southern Family and Florida Preferred insurance companies to Citizens Property …

Texas Insurer Group Says Alberto May be Omen for Rest of Season

Tropical Storm Alberto should be a warning to all coastal residents in Texas that the 2006 hurricane season may exceed the expectations for an overly active storm season. The Insurance Council of Texas urges everyone living along the coast to …

Most R.I. Homeowners Go Without Flood Coverage

There were big gains this year in the number of Rhode Island homeowners with flood insurance, but the state still has one of the lowest rates in the country of participation in a federal flood insurance program, according to a …

Windstorm Insurance May Be Problem as Hurricane Season Begins

U.S. commercial real estate (CRE) values in coastal areas, and in particular smaller multifamily properties, may suffer as insurance companies reduce loss exposure to hurricane-prone areas by increasing premiums, raising deductibles, dropping coverage amounts and even dropping coverage altogether following …

Big I’s Rusbuldt Blasts Compensation Settlements, Raises Bar on Agent Market Share in IJ Magazine

Independent insurance agents who are upset that conditions are being placed on their compensation have an important ally in Bob Rusbuldt, chief executive officer of Independent Insurance Agents and Broker of America, and the “go-to guy” on American Agency System …