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Introducing the Power of Home Inventory Artificial Intelligence  

With more climate-related risks affecting homeowners, helping your clients itemize their home inventories before a loss occurs can save them hours of time and help them recoup more of their…

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A Short Primer on Property Valuations

Knowing and understanding the needs of clients requires you to understand the nuances of coverage and how they impact the insured’s business. Today, there is a greater bias toward simpler…

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Habitational Hot Mess

The habitational market struggles with a lack of capacity, increasing non-renewals, higher deductibles and restricted underwriting. How can the industry adapt to this hard market? This article covers current habitational…

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Insurance Coverage Concerns for Geothermal Heat Pump Systems

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), geothermal energy technology “harnesses the Earth’s heat,” and at least three types of technology that take advantage of that natural resource. These include…

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Insuring Commercial Tenant Lease Requirements

A prospect’s lease requires that the tenant (him) be responsible for only the heating and air conditioning system (HVAC) under a provision that the tenant “maintain, repair and replace” the…

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Tenant Improvements & Betterments…OWNER Beware!

If you insure the tenant of a building and they install improvements and betterments, you certainly want to make sure they’re adequately insured, particularly if the lease makes the tenant…