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The Cincinnati Customer Care Center: Expand Your Team with Exceptional Service
New and mature agencies alike are benefiting from the service and support offered by The Cincinnati Insurance Companies’ Customer Care Center. Whether looking to reduce the cost to service small accounts, expand without adding new staff, or seeking the opportunity …
POSTED OCTOBER 28, 2020 7:31 PM |
ISO Business Auto Form and Endorsement Revisions
Effective November 1, 2020, Insurance Services Office (ISO) is introducing 19 new endorsements for its business auto program. Many of these changes are the result of requests from IIABA’s Technical Affairs Committee. Following is a brief description of each of …
POSTED OCTOBER 23, 2020 6:02 PM |
The Comparative Rater Revolution: An Agent’s Story
This post is part of a series sponsored by ITC (Insurance Technologies Corporation). Comparative rating systems may seem commonplace in the 21st century as they’ve been around for more than many decades. Most independent insurance agencies rely on them every …
POSTED OCTOBER 08, 2020 7:00 AM |
Wildfire Risks: How Cincinnati’s Approach Combines the Best of Data and Personal Connection
Insurance Journal’s Pamela Simpson interviewed Dorothy Sarna, National Loss Prevention Program Director of The Cincinnati Insurance Companies, to explore the carrier’s approach to underwriting high net worth home insurance in California, Oregon, Montana and other states experiencing increased incidents of …
POSTED SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 1:36 PM |
4 Facts I Learned Watching the Strems Trial
One of the unexpected consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is that I found myself able to watch a live courtroom proceeding from the comfort of my desk at home (work). The idea of this was totally fascinating to me because …
POSTED SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 12:00 PM |
2 Reasons COVID-19 Legislation is the Wrong Solution
Back in March and April, I gave two webinars on COVID-19 for the Academy of Insurance. If you haven’t had a chance to take those, click here to get the Academy of Insurance COVID-19 related classes. One of the topics …
POSTED SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 2:18 PM |
Business Income: When a Covered Cause of Loss Occurs During a Coronavirus Shut Down
To analyze the business income policy’s response to the crossover of an excluded event and a covered event, we begin with the Business Income Insuring Agreement found in Insurance Services Offices (ISO’s) business income policy. The form reads: We will …
POSTED SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 8:36 PM |
Boogie Boarding in the Garage
In the middle of June, I broke my ankle in a boogie boarding accident. (It happened in my garage but there was a boogie board involved so I’m sticking to that story because it makes me sound cooler.) As it …
POSTED SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 3:51 PM |
Using Building Codes and Property Characteristics to Keep up With 2020 Hurricane Season
This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Though the COVID-19 pandemic is occupying most of our attention at the moment, hurricane season has begun and natural catastrophes never take a holiday. Forecasts for 2020 have projected higher …
POSTED SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 7:00 AM |
3 Reasons People Don’t Buy Homeowners’ Insurance
I recently learned about two separate times when families lost everything when their homes burned. These are tragic losses and thankfully, the only things that were lost were replaceable items. No one got hurt, but they did wake up the …
POSTED SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 12:00 PM |
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