August 2016

Courtesy of iii.org Late summer is the peak time for hurricane season. And as if on cue, there’s a few storms brewing out in the Atlantic. It’s too early to tell if they will impact Florida, but it is not too early to prepare as if they are. Review our hurricane season insurance checklist. First […]

Courtesy of iii.org The 2016 Identity Fraud Study, released by Javelin Strategy & Research, found that $15 billion was stolen from 13.1 million U.S. consumers in 2015, compared with $16 billion and 12.7 million victims a year earlier. In the past six years identity thieves have stolen $112 billion. Following the introduction of microchip equipped

Courtesy of iii.org Research shows that fatigue is a significant factor in motor vehicle, commercial trucking and rail collisions. The Governors Highway Safety Association issued a report, http://www.ghsa.org/html/media/pressreleases/2016/20160808sfdrowsy.html in August 2016 concluding that the estimated annual societal cost of fatigue-related fatal and injury crashes was $109 billion. This figure does not include property damage. A

Courtesy of iii.org Florida accounted for 14 percent of all U.S. insured catastrophe losses from 1985 to 2014: $68 billion out of $498.6 billion, based on data from the PCS division of ISO. (Adjusted for inflation by ISO using the GDP implicit price deflator.) Seven of the 10 costliest hurricanes in U.S. history have impacted

Courtesy of iii.org Florida summers means thunderstorms nearly every day. Most trees benefit from the daily drenching, except for the dead ones. They get deader, if that’s really a thing. Dead trees and diseased or damaged tree limbs can cause havoc on your property as summer rains root out (literally AND figuratively) the weak from