| 1. | Survey: Why Agents and Customers Choose Higher-Priced Insurers
Apr 12, 2012 -- Insurance customers are price-sensitive shoppers, and they have become more so given the financial pressures of the struggling economy. Many observers fear that standard coverage is becoming commoditized to the point ...
  
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| 2. | Severe Weather Has Home Insurers Rethinking Coverages
Apr 10, 2012 -- As weather disasters strike with more frequency, U.S. homeowners first get hit with the destruction or total loss of property. Many are then hit with the unexpected loss of homeowners insurance policies as insurance ...
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| 3. | Top Reasons Happy Couples File Wedding Insurance Claims
Apr 2, 2012 -- Vendor and venue problems are the most frequent causes of wedding day mishaps that result in insurance claims. Wedding insurance experts at Travelers Insurance recently analyzed the company's wedding insurance claims ...
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| 4. | Florida Homeowners Association Could Be Sued in Martin Shooting Case
Apr 10, 2012 -- If Trayvon Martin's family sues over his death, they might not target George Zimmerman but instead the homeowners association of the neighborhood where the shooting happened and Zimmerman lived. That's because if ...
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| 5. | 160-Year Old Hanover Retaking Its Place as P/C Industry Leader
Apr 3, 2012 -- Eight out of 160 years of history may not seem like a big deal but for Hanover Insurance Group, founded in 1852, the last eight years have seen a series of big deals. Eight years ago in 2004, the $2.4 billion heavily ...
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| 6. | Property Insurance Rates Continue to Firm: Marsh
Apr 10, 2012 -- Global property insurance rates continued to firm in the first quarter of 2012 and there are forces at play that will likely continue the trend, according to a report from insurance broker Marsh. Despite the absence of ...
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| 7. | Mont. Woman Awarded $34M in Insurance Lawsuit
Apr 11, 2012 -- A 90-year-old woman residing in an assisted-living facility in Billings has won a $34.2 million judgment against her Omaha, Neb.-based insurance company for suspending payments for her dementia care. Arlene Hull and her ...
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| 8. | Actuary Analyzes Insurance Twitter Messages, Wins Prize
Apr 11, 2012 -- Usually actuaries focus on insurance rates and loss reserves, not advertisements. But according to one actuary: Jake, the State Farm agent whom a jealous housewife was convinced was up to no good with her husband – ...
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| 9. | Obesity Now Accounts for 21% of Healthcare Costs: Study
Apr 10, 2012 -- Obesity now accounts for almost 21 percent of U.S. healthcare costs — more than twice some previous estimates, reports a new Cornell University study. An obese person incurs medical costs that are $2,741 higher (in ...
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| 10. | California Workers' Comp Reform Taking Shape – Again
Apr 10, 2012 -- At a recent joint hearing in Sacramento on workers' compensation in California with the Assembly and Senate, statistic after statistic flew out of the mouths of speaker after speaker during the nearly four-hour ...
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