How to Put Together an At-Home Emergency Kit

Be Prepared with a Custom-Built Supplies Kit. Fall is a great time to consider disaster preparedness and to take a look at your family’s emergency kit. While disasters can happen anywhere, whether natural or man-made, it is important that your family be prepared. For many, the thought of having a disaster preparedness kit in their […]

Six Pieces of Technology That Can Prevent a Home Insurance Claim

How Technology Can Keep Your Home Claims-Free! We touched a couple weeks back on how simple pieces of technology can keep your home safe from burglary. Well, wouldn’t it be great if technology could help us avoid other claims like water damage, fire & freezing damage? It is! Technology for the home has taken huge […]

Three Things to Do Before You Leave for Vacation

How to Protect Your Home While Away Ah, summer. A time where we enjoy the great outdoors and most often take our vacation for the year. Whether you’re traveling close to home on a short camping trip or headed off to Europe with the drones of other tourists, keeping your home safe while you’re away […]

Are Your Collectibles Covered by Insurance?

Insuring Comic Books, Fine Art, Antiques & More So, you’ve got an Amazing Fantasy #15 comic book – the first appearance of Stan Lee’s Spider Man in a safe from when you were just a kid. What you probably know is that this item can be worth tens of thousands of dollars, but what you […]

Car Insurance Discounts – The Real Savings

How to Really Save Money on Car Insurance For years we have all been flooded with auto insurance commercials talking about various discounts offered in the insurance industry for auto insurance. There are the standard ones: multi-policy, multi-vehicle, etc., but there may be some other discounts that drivers are not aware of. We have compiled […]

I’m Renting a Moving Truck. Do I Need to Buy Their Insurance?

Tips to Consider Before Renting a Moving Truck Every time you rent a moving truck, you are faced with the question, “do you want to buy insurance?” The answer to needing insurance or not really depends solely on the size of the vehicle (in addition to what coverage you currently carry, of course) as well […]

Tornadoes, Hurricanes and Wind Damage

Does my Insurance Cover this? Every state in our country can have a tornado, hurricane or suffer from a severe windstorm, so understanding that your home is protected with the right insurance to cover this type of loss is critical. Browse your policy or call your agent before an event is forecast because once a […]

Keep Your Home Free of Rodents and Rodent Damage

Protecting your Home from Rodents and Rodent Damage You’ve spent a lot of time making your house perfect and keeping it clean. Don’t let a rodent destroy the inner workings of your home! A single rat can destroy insulation, chew through wires, weaken floor joists and even chew through brick! Not to mention they carry […]

How to Protect Yourself from Uninsured Motorists

Beware of the Uninsured Motorists! Uninsured drivers are a huge problem across the United States. Each year billions are paid out in uninsured motorists claims. Even though uninsured motorists have steadily declined over the past decade, some states still have one in four drivers driving without insurance. You can protect yourself with an insurance coverage […]

Do Rock Chip Claims Impact My Insurance Rates? Our Insurance Agency Weighs In.

Everything You Need to Know About Rock Chip Claims We’ve all seen the tents around claiming, “Free rock chip repair!” but clearly there is a hidden cost somewhere. Sure, the insurance companies will pay the people at the tent to inject an epoxy into the chip in hopes that it doesn’t run and turn into […]