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Start Up Right: An Insurance Snapshot for Your New Business


Opening your own business is one of the most exciting, worrying, happiest, and busiest things you will ever do in your life. Striking out on your own is an experience akin to leaving home for the first time, and realizing that you own the show now, and have to perform. You’ve already covered your business […]

Above It All: Flood Insurance and Hi-Rises


Q: I’m just getting ready to close on a great condo that’s everything I ever wanted. It’s in an awesome neighborhood and the beach is right there when I walk out on the balcony. There’s also a very puzzling requirement that my lender has for a unit on the 16th floor. If there’s a flood […]

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Citizens Takeouts and You.


Should I Stay or Should I Go? Citizens Takeouts and You. It started with something that looks like a dirty trick. As a writer for the Sun Sentinel reports, a new round of Citizens takeout notices went out last week to thousands of policyholders in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Here’s the thing, it’s from […]

Saving a Bundle: 3 Easy Ways to Lower Your Homeowners Premium


Paying your insurance premiums ranks right up there with root canals, but just like dental work, you need insurance to keep your home and finances healthy. Take the time to review your insurance annually and learn how to get better coverage while paying out less money in premiums. There are a few tips and tricks […]

Law and Ordinance Coverage 101


Insurance policies are written to indemnify the insured against damage or loss. They are not so that it ends up in a better position than they were prior to a loss. This is done to prevent incentives to having or creating losses that would end up costing the insurance company, and by extension other policyholders. […]

Don’t Get Sold: Go Independent


Independent insurance agents sell insurance policies from different insurance providers, rather than being captive agents to a single insurance company. We are not considered employees of a specific insurance company and do receive commissions for the policies that we sell. Captive agents are allowed only to sell the policies of the company that they work […]

Are You Going My Way? Self-Driving Cars are Coming!


Lexus RX450h retrofitted by Google for its driverless car fleet. Image Credit: Driving_Google_Self-Driving_Car.jpg: Steve Jurvetson, derivative work: Mariordo Great news! Self-driving cars are going to be a real thing! Not so great news! You’re still going to need auto insurance. Don’t kick your coverage to the curb just yet; there are a lot of things that […]

Why Millennials Aren’t Jumping Into Homeownership


Ask any talking heads on the financial shows and you’ll get as many answers as there are heads about why those pesky kids aren’t buying homes. Ask a Millennial and you’re going to get a whole lot of sarcastic answers. However, the breakdown of reasons why they’re not buying is far from simple, having to […]

It’s Not Just Gas: The Real Cost of Commuting


Remember how owning a car was so much more complicated and expensive than you thought at first? You thought about the payment, the gas, and the insurance you’d need, but not about depreciation, or the maintenance needed to keep it running. A lot of people underestimate the costs of commuting, too. It’s not just gas […]

Uber Broward: What Drivers and Riders Need to Know


Commissioners will begin debate on an ordinance that allows ride-sharing service Uber to largely regulate itself. This ordinance if passed would allow the company to operate using a six month temporary permit, even though the county believes that Uber lacks the required insurance for its drivers. The Commissioners Get an Ubering The law under consideration […]