Yearly Archives: 2022

Small commercial insurance accounts are surety prospects

Surety bonds “provide financial protection to businesses, families, and consumers by guaranteeing contractual obligations are met through the securement of a bond,” according to the Surety and Fidelity Association of America. (Photo: Vitalii Vodolazskyi/Adobe Stock) Independent insurance agents have...

Insurance rates climb from fires, COVID, inflation, worker shortage

Inflation, a labor shortage, effects from the lingering COVID pandemic and increasingly devastating fires are boosting the cost of insurance for...

Citizens Property Insurance has 1 million policies in Florida

A few weeks ago, more than half of the private homeowners insurance providers in FL were slated to be downgraded by the financial analysis firm that rates them. ...

Insurance rates climb from fires, COVID, inflation, worker shortage

Inflation, a labor shortage, effects from the lingering COVID pandemic and increasingly devastating fires are boosting the cost of insurance for homes, cars and businesses. “Everything,” said Sunnyvale insurance agent Steve Nelson, “has gone up.” The pandemic and high costs...

State says Oregon insurers have no plans to use controversial wildfire risk map in their decisions

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Insurance companies in Oregon did not use, and currently have no plans to use, the state's controversial wildfire risk map in their decision-making, according to data...
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