From Jeff Master’s Wunderground, the Top 10 Costliest Weather Disasters since 1980.  Number one, Hurricane Katrina.  Numbers two and three may surprise you -  drought.  I’m interested to know if one can buy a rider for drought on a farm/ranch or crop policy?

Hurricane Earl – now category 2 – is expected to become a major category 4 hurricane today.  From today’s CNN.com article: “Earl could affect areas in the United States from the Carolinas to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, over Labor Day weekend, said CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras. It is too soon to tell whether the storm could [...]

Independence! Many, many of us experience tremendous frustration in our career, living day after day, year after year in a work situation we find confining, stifling and which frankly just doesn’t fit us. Perhaps we’re stuck in a cubicle. Perhaps we dislike our manager. Perhaps we’re selling something we don’t believe in. Perhaps we can’t [...]

Claims Magazine has an interesting report on how the BP oil spill could impact IA supply heading into the teeth of Hurricane season.  The article states – Even if just 10 percent of the independent adjusters wound up working oil spill claims, it would leave a large gap in the number of adjusters from which [...]

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