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How Invoking an Appraisal Clause Can Maximize Your Insurance Claim

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How Your Credit Score Impacts Your Property Insurance Premium

When purchasing or renewing a homeowner’s insurance policy, your credit score plays an important role in your premium costs, and even in the ability to buy an insurance policy. Most insurance carriers use a credit-based insurance score to calculate your premium payment. Here is what you should know about how insurance companies use your credit score and how you can improve it.

Top 5 Reasons Why a Public Adjuster Will Negotiate Your Property Damage Claim Better Than You

When you suffer minor damage to your home or business, you can probably handle the insurance claim process on your own. However, when your damage is substantial, you'll probably find it pays to have a public adjuster on your side.

Fire Risk Goes Up the Minute the Heat Goes On

At just a month into Fall, some Wisconsinites already shoveled snow, many are past the first frost, and most are firing up their heaters to offset the falling temperatures.

Winter Home Safeguarding Tips Before Heading South

It’s that time of year when scores of Northerners plan to escape winter’s icy grip for a winter vacation. If that applies to you, making sure your home is properly prepared and secured before you head south could prevent a catastrophe. Follow these winter home safeguarding tips to help avoid a costly insurance claim.

What to Do When a Frozen Pipe Bursts

According to Insurance Services Office (ISO), water damage claims are the second most frequent insurance claims after wind and hail damage. Most water damage claims this time of year are caused by frozen pipe bursts, and this year’s winter has been especially brutal, affecting areas as far south as Texas and Florida.

House Fires: What Causes Them and How to Prevent Them

What is the leading cause of house fires in the United States? According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) statistics compiled from 2011-2015, a whopping 43 percent of the nearly 360,000 house fires responded to by U.S. fire departments were caused by cooking equipment, followed by heating systems/furnace, 15 percent; electrical systems and lighting equipment, 9 percent; arson, 8 percent; and smoking materials, 5 percent. Other fire causes included unattended candles, dryers and washing machines, lightning, children playing with fire, Christmas tree lighting, and faulty fireplaces.

Understanding the Importance of Homeowners Insurance

There are many expenses that come with buying a home. One of the most important is homeowners insurance. While it’s natural to wonder whether this expense is necessary, there are many reasons why it is a crucial protection for any homeowner. Here are a few important things buyers should remember about homeowners insurance:

Personal Property: Restoration or Replacement? Understanding Your Options

Here is a scenario that occurs more often than you might think.

Navigating Your Rental Property Fire Claim

If you’re a property manager, real estate developer, attorney or commercial property owner, dealing with a rental property fire claim can be overwhelming. So can navigating the claims process with your insurance company. But knowing what to do in that process and when will surely help ease some stress. Here are some of the things you need to address as a landlord when there is a rental property fire claim.

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    The Hidden Damages of a Fire Loss

    There’s more to fire damage than meets the eye. Fire can also cause hidden damages that can be hard to detect. The two main culprits: smoke/soot damage, and water damage. Knowing about these additional impacts on your property, and how to take care of them, helps ensure you’re reimbursed appropriately for your claim.

    Building Code Compliance Adds Substantial Cost When Rebuilding After a House Fire: Who Pays the Bill?

    Building codes are in a constant state of evolution. Advancements in engineering, technology, safety, building materials and methods, and changes in the physical environment all drive changes in building codes. If your fire-damaged home is 10 or more years old, complying with the current building codes may add substantial cost to your reconstruction. Will you be stuck with the bill?

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