If you pack a room with financial planners and life insurance agents and then ask this question, you’ll have some great entertainment. It will be on a par with a professional wrestling match or an MMA cage fight. Not to be one for the faint of heart, I thought this would make for an interesting topic.
?There are always an interesting set of numbers about any storm like Sandy. Here are some of the ones I thought to be interesting,
– 932 – The number of miles across / wide for the storm. This distance is about the distance from New York to Jacksonville, Florida. At its largest, Sandy would have covered almost 1/3 of the United States.
– 13.88 – The height in feet for the storm surge that occurred from the wind pushing the water that high.
?Shopping for life insurance can be prompted by life events. A marriage, your first home, the first pregnancy or the arrival of a new baby are examples of such motivational life events. Regardless of which life event it is that motivates the search, I thought it was appropriate to visit this question, “Which member of a couple should have a life policy?”
As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the east coast, I’m reminded how important it is to be prepared for a natural disaster. It doesn’t have to be a hurricane that forces an evacuation. The disaster could be a flood (remember what happened in the Midwest last year), wildfires (Texas last year), hurricanes (Katrina, Ike, & Sandy), tornadoes (Joplin, Missouri & Tuscaloosa, Alabama) or an earthquake.
Buying a life insurance policy is different than purchasing any other type of insurance policy. Home insurance is pretty straightforward. What amount of coverage does it take to replace the home if it experiences a total loss? Car insurance is not much different. What kind of car, truck or SUV do you drive and what kind of protection do you need to protect you financially if you’re at fault?
If you’re about to buy a home or change insurance companies, did you know the insurance company will perform an inspection of your home? Inspections are performed on homes, rental properties, town homes and in some cases condos. There are three types of home inspections for Texans …
Toyota recently announced it was recalling 7.43 million cars, trucks & SUVs worldwide. The issue is faulty power window switches that can cause fires. More than a dozen models from 2005 to 2010 are affected and include;
?This wasn’t even a legitimate question in the not too distant past. The answer from underwriting was a swift “no” each and every time. If a person had any history of cancer, there was no way they’d get through underwriting.
As Bob Dylan sang, “The times they are a-changin’.”
Marc Summers, the Food Network star & producer was in Philadelphia in early August taping an episode of Restaurant Impossible. After the taping, he caught a cab to his next destination. The driver lost control in the midst of a torrential rain storm, hydroplaned and crashed. Summers wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and struck the partition between the front and back seats of the taxi disfiguring his face.
Where you live influences the rate you pay on home and car insurance. The premium difference between different areas is greater for home insurance than car insurance. The real question that needs to be answered is why the difference in premium if everything else is roughly the same, such as
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