Category: Personal Insurance

Is Your Home Insured to Its Replacement Cost?

If you lost your home in a fire, how much would it cost to rebuild it? The answer may be different than you think. And if your home isn’t insured to its…

Fire Pit Safety Tips

Building a fire pit can be as simple as circling stones in your backyard or as complex as a professionally built unit on your patio. Whichever way you choose to go, be…

Simple Steps for an Extra Safe Halloween

The COVID-19 pandemic means Halloween may be a bit different this year. But you can still have fun! First and foremost, follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines to ensure your celebrations…

Are You Ready for an Emergency?

Disasters like wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes can strike with little or no warning. To assure that you and your family are prepared, there’s no time like the present to…

Home Solar Panel Installation Tips

The demand for clean and renewable energy is growing significantly. With more installation and financing options available than ever before, utilizing solar energy has become increasingly attractive to homeowners seeking environmentally and…

California ‘insurer of last resort’ sues the state as crisis deepens in wildfire zones

With thousands of rural Californians losing their homeowners’ insurance because of wildfire risks, the state’s “insurer of last resort” sued its regulator Friday, seeking to block his order requiring the insurer to…

8 Common Car Insurance Myths

Auto insurance can be complex and difficult to understand. With all the information available to policyholders, it can be challenging to decipher the facts from myths. Knowing what’s covered under your auto…

2019 Slated as California’s Worst Wildfire Year Yet

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 Late on September 2 a 117-acre mountainside wildfire, dubbed Snoqualmie Fire, ignited less than a mile from a residential neighborhood in Layton, Utah, prompting mandatory evacuations of 125 homes.The fire,…

Insuring Your College Student

Sending a child off to college is a significant milestone that represents the culmination of years of planning and hard work. As you prepare for the start of the semester, you should…

Making a Home Inventory

Your homeowners insurance policy is there to protect you from losses like fires and burglaries, but an often forgotten part of having this coverage is documenting your possessions. Insurance carriers are much…