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High-Rise Fire Risks: Why Home Insurance Matters More Than Ever

Says Gurdeep Singh Batra, head-commercial underwriting, risk engineering & global accounts, Bajaj General Insurance: “A home insurance plan automatically includes fire insurance, along with allied perils such as storms, floods, typhoons, lightning, earthquakes, riots, strikes, malicious damage, impact damage, and theft, all linked...

Low-income families face repeated flooding with no way out

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - According to a Texas A&M University researcher, flooding hits low-income families harder than higher-income households, and the gap comes down to three factors: insurance, savings and the ability to relocate. Ivis Garcia, an associate professor in landscape architecture...

Why your insurance loyalty is costing you money

Insurance rates have skyrocketed since the pandemic, and jaw-dropping renewal notices have left many consumers stretched thin when it comes to protecting their assets. Nearly half of Americans with auto insurance (49%) and homeowners insurance (46%) say they’re stressed about their premiums, according...

How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?

Beginning next week, Australians across a huge swath of the continent will begin getting three free hours of electricity every afternoon—to charge their cars, runs their dishwashers, fill up a storage battery to run the house at night. I’ve written about this before,...

Insurance options can be a challenge for older manufactured homes

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - There’s a good chance you know someone or know of someone who lives in a manufactured home, sometimes called a trailer, double-wide or sometimes a mobile Pre-Fab meaning it was produced in a factory and not...