A family in Florida enjoying the beautiful weather and backyard pool experience. If you own your home free and clear or are just about at the end of your mortgage, you may be looking forward to the day you can call your homeowners insurance company and cancel your policy forever. While this may seem like […]
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Do Insurers Use Aerial Imagery?
Insurers love data and they use the data they collect about your home to properly access the risk your home presents and set your premium. In most cases, they gather this information by asking you to fill out a variety of forms as well as sending out inspectors to look at your property in more […]
Weiss Ratings Ranked Florida Windstorm Insurance Companies
According to data from the Insurance Information Institute (III), 16 insurers went bankrupt after Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992 as claims overwhelmed smaller insurance companies. Since then, the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association has backed Florida insurers, but if your insurance company goes under it can lead to major delays in the claim process. A […]
Florida Must Tackle Insurance ‘Assignment of Benefits’ Problems
Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, Jeff Atwater recently addressed lawmakers and stated that the assignment of benefits insurance practice must be addressed as it continues to drive up homeowner insurance rates in Florida. While lawmakers looked at the problem this spring they could not agree on changes so nothing was done about a practice that insurance […]
Moving Checklist: 8 Money To-Dos Before You Change Addresses
According to data from the Census Bureau, roughly 11 to 12 percent of Americans change addresses every year. Anybody who has ever moved knows that it can be a very frustrating experience, it can also be fairly expensive. Moving not only requires packing up all of your belongings but also updating your insurance policies, tracking […]