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Before you build a website talk to your business insurance agent.

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  Imagine consulting your business insurance agent prior to building a website?  If done properly, your website could yield business for years and years to come.  However, have you ever considered how your website affects your business insurance rates?  This blog post should shed a little light

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Social Media Brings Growing Opportunities and Liability » Insurance Industry Blog

Social Media Brings Growing Opportunities and Liability » Insurance Industry Blog
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If you are one of the millions who interact on these social networks every day, do you ever consider the risks as you tweet, message, share and “like”?

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I.I.I. Response to Americans for Insurance Reform Report

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Dr. Robert Hartwig, CPCU | December 15, 2011 In their new report, “Repeat Offenders: How the Insurance Industry Manufactures Crises and Harms America,” co-authors Robert Hunter and Joanne Doroshow claim that that the property/casualty insurance industry “manufactures” crises in order to justify raising rates and that the

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Want to Reduce Cyber Risk? Avoid These 25 Worst Passwords of 2011

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One way to help lower personal and business cyber risk is to avoid using easy-to-crack passwords. SplashData, a password management application maker, recently compiled a list of the 25 worst passwords for the year 2011.   The research results were based on millions of actually stolen passwords

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New Fed rule bans hand-held cellphone usage for Trucker Drivers

New Fed rule bans hand-held cellphone usage for Trucker Drivers
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On November 23, 2011, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a final rule specifically prohibiting interstate truck and bus drivers from using hand-held cell phones while operating their vehicles.

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Geithner Hits Attempts to Weaken Wall Street Reforms

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According to Reuters and the Insurance Journal Magazine, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday that opponents of financial-sector reform were trying to sabotage efforts to strengthen the system against crisis. “With millions of Americans still struggling to find work…and even in the face of the

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Europe’s Sovereign Debt Crisis Could Torpedo P&C Market Turn

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  Europe’s sovereign debt crisis could have a negative impact on the U.S. property and casualty industry’s ability to change the course of the soft market should the economy fall into another recession, an industry consultant says. In a commentary on the current state of the insurance

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Becoming an Owner-Operator Truck Driver

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So you want to become an owner operator.  Believe it or not, becoming an owner operator is easier than you think.  To date, our agency has assisted a number of professional drivers in their quest to become owner-operator truckers.  Regardless of whether you’re running hotshot loads, dry

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Starr International Files $25B Suit Against U.S. Over AIG Takeover

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A company run by former American International Group Inc Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg sued the U.S. government for $25 billion, calling the 2008 federal takeover of the insurer unconstitutional. The lawsuit marks an unusual effort to force the government to pay shareholders, who have seen AIG’s

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When saving money costs you money

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As a Dallas business owner, it is important for you to watch your bottom line.  With today’s business climate, business owners can ill afford to overspend on things like insurance.  Before you start cutting your insurance coverages, consider the impact of removing coverage from your policy.  This

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