M.P. McQueen did an interesting piece for the Wall Street Journal today entitled “As Hurricane Season Begins, Insurance Gets Harder to Find.” The lead lays the 2010 situation out bluntly: From the Gulf oil spill and the floods in Arkansas and Oklahoma to the procession of hurricanes forecast for this year, the stage is set [...]
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2010 Shaping Up to Be a Year of Big Property Damage
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Louisiana Gives Tax Free Weekend for Hurricane Supplies May 29-30
With the start of hurricane season just around the corner, the state of Louisiana wants to help its citizens be prepared. On May 29th and 30th, residents of Louisiana can get a tax break when buying emergency supplies, including: self-powered light sources like flashlights and candles portable self-powered radios two-way radios and weather-band radios tarpaulins [...]
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Jobless Benefits & Flood Insurance Extended…Again.
Yesterday, while most of us were madly scrambling to get our taxes filed by the midnight deadline, Congress voted to restore unemployment benefits for hundreds of thousands of Americans who had lost them when Republican opposition caused the bill to lapse before the Congressional recess at the end of March. The GOP contingent was opposing [...]
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South Carolina’s Safe Home Program Helps Reduce Insurance Premiums
South Carolina’s innovative program for coastal homeowners who have taken measures to protect their homes against hurricane winds has surpassed its 1,000th awarded grant. Specifically, according to Scott Richardson, director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance, said that the SC Safe Home Program has awarded a total of 1,010 grants worth roughly $4.6 million [...]
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