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Letters from the Homeowners Insurance Company

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This all started with a puddle on the floor. Since then, my husband and I have been going through the claims process with our homeowners insurance company. Overall, things are going much easier than I ever expected they would. Here is the next step in the process. Today, we received three, separate, envelopes in the mail from the insurance company that we have our homeowners policy through. Oddly enough, the mail arrived as the claims adjuster was at our home, doing his job. I’ll go over that portion of the claims process in another blog. For now, I wanted to … Continue reading →

Insurance Blog Week in Review – January 8-14, 2012

In a typical week, the Insurance blog at Families.com will have fourteen different articles appear on it. It can be easy to miss something that you really should read about. Every week, I do an Insurance Blog Week in Review, to help you “ketchup” about everything that has hit the blog in the past seven days. ACLU Fights Michigan Domestic Partner Health Insurance Ban Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed a law that bans public entities from providing health insurance coverage to the same-sex domestic partners of employees. The ACLU feels that this law serves no purpose except to discriminate against … Continue reading →

Get A Car Insurance Quote Through Facebook

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Shopping around for car insurance can be tedious, confusing, and boring. It takes a while to get an insurance agent on the phone. Not every website that gives quotes is going to be intuitively easy to access. 21st Century Insurance just made it all a whole lot easier. They will give you a quote on Facebook! 21st Century Insurance is part of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies. They are the third largest provider of individual auto insurance policies in the United States. The have around 20 million customers nationwide. They can provide their customers “the same great coverage, for … Continue reading →

Insurance Needs For Prince William and Kate Middleton

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All across the internet, people have been talking about the upcoming Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton. There has been talk about the dress that Kate will wear, the cost of the wedding itself, and the impact this event will have on the internet as the wedding is happening. What about the insurance needs of this young couple? When two people get married, this has an effect on the insurance policies that each held before they got married. Let’s assume that Prince William and Kate each have a life insurance policy right now. In general, it’s not unusual … Continue reading →

When the Insurance Check is Sent to the Mortgage Company Part 2

Back in November I wrote about my four month saga on getting my roof repaired from a hail storm that had happened the previous summer. When I wrote that article, I thought that my roof repair was imminent. I thought that we were about to receive the check from the insurance company and start the roof and home repairs. It did not happen. It is now January, and I am finally hearing the sound of banging and hammering on my roof. So what happened? We got the good-old-run-around. In what can only be compared to the struggles on closing on … Continue reading →

When the Insurance Check is Sent to the Mortgage Company

Back in August (see article) I wrote about the fact that we had hail damage we could not see and fortunately called the insurance company just in case because there had been a hail storm. I mentioned that we had been approved for repairs and wroud get our roof and gutters replaced shortly. It’s now November. We are finally getting the roof replaced this week. What took so long? Well, the insurance check was sent to the Mortgage company. After the insurance company adjuster came, we received a letter within two days detailing the repairs to be made. We took … Continue reading →

Insurance Terms: W-Z

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J-K | L | M | N | O | P | Q-R | S | T | U-V | W-Z Insurance Terms: W Waiting Period under a health insurance policy, the waiting period is the time that has to pass from the policy issue date until the date the benefits become payable. In some cases, the waiting period may also be called an “elimination period” or a “probationary period.” Waiver is the surrender of a right or privilege. With life insurance, … Continue reading →

Insurance Terms: M

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J-K | L | M | N | O | P | Q-R | S | T | U-V | W-Z Managed Care is a comprehensive health care arrangement between an employer and/or an insurance company. Selected medical and health providers agree to offer care for a discounted rate to the membership of the plan. Managed care systems use the established medical protocols and procedures generally agreed by the medical community as cost effective. Marine Insurance is insurance coverage on goods while … Continue reading →

Insurance Blog Week In Review July 18-23, 2007

Insurance Term Of The Week: Homeowner Insurance Forms If you have read any of my guest blogs in the Adoption or Special Needs parenting sections or know about my personal life at all hopefully you can forgive my obvious lack of work the past several months. I love this gig but the responsibility of parenting a special needs child is overwhelming sometimes! Let’s hope I can stay back on track and writing about the exciting topic of Insurance. I wish I was not cursed with a mind that thinks Risk Management all the time, it makes it difficult to go … Continue reading →