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No. It’s Not Just the Insurance Company’s Fault the Policy is Hard to Read

One of the blogs that I love to read is the Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog by Merlin Law Group. You may not like this, but I find many of the insights by Chip and the team to be compelling …

5 Quick Questions Before I Read a Commercial Policy

It’s that time of year at the Academy. I’m pouring over spreadsheets and schedules. I’m emailing instructors and planning classes. Yeah. I’m trying to look ahead and work ahead, all while looking at today’s numbers and wondering how we’re going …

Did You Just Ask That?

We’ve received a few questions lately through our Ask an Expert service that motivated this post. Wait. You don’t know about Ask an Expert? It’s a benefit of the new subscription service through Insurance Journal, called IJPro. You hadn’t heard …

Please Stop Speaking Insurance

There are a lot of reasons that consumers don’t like insurance. Sorry, but you know that it’s the truth. If you think about it from before your insurance days, you already know why people don’t like to buy insurance. They …

Doesn’t Special Form Mean Everything has Special Coverage?

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 …