The independent rating company has found that Eastham is better protected against fire damage since fire hydrants were installed. But some insurance companies are already giving the credits, which average about 10 percent of the total premium, said Scott Kerry, owner of Kerry Insurance Agency in Eastham. The Massachusetts FAIR Plan, which is one of the largest…
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-Symbility Solutions Inc., a global software company focused on modernizing the insurance industry, today announced financial results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2017. The Company had a loss per share of for the six months ended June 30, 2017 compared to a loss per share of in the same period in 2016. The Company had a cash balance of $6.8 million as at…
Aug. 29– President Trump and first lady Melania are traveling to hurricane-ravaged Texas today amid the devastation of Tropical Storm Harvey, pledging the nation is “100 percent with” the thousands enduring the epic flooding. To the people of Texas and Louisiana, we are 100 percent with you. ” Trump said more than 8,500 federal workers are involved in the Texas…
Red Cross spokesman Lloyd Ziel said Monday that volunteers have made more space inside the convention center, in part, by pushing some cots closer together. The National Hurricane Center says more heavy rainfall from Harvey is expected in the Houston area. The center’s 10 p.m. CDT advisory promises more rain overnight from the tropical storm to worsen an…
Get ready for more new neighbors; two new studies suggest Colorado Springs continues to have one of the nation’s strongest housing markets. A report released Monday by WalletHub, a personal finance website, ranked Colorado Springs as having the 19th best housing market out of 300 cities. And among 62 cities with populations of 300,000 or more, the Springs came in…
It’s the new Colorado policy crisis. Just like our crumbling roads, it provides a glaring sign of Colorado’s feckless leadership in state government. A Gazette story by education writer Debbie Kelley spelled out the dilemma under the headline: “No’ magic bullet’ for solving Colorado’s teacher shortage, education officials say.”
President Donald Trump is heading to two Texas cities for updates on the devastating flooding that has paralyzed the southeastern part of the state in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. The White House announced late Monday that the president and first lady Melania Trump will depart early Tuesday morning for Corpus Christi, where they’ll receive a briefing…
Hurricane Harvey, the massive storm that has dumped torrents of rain across Texas— flooding Houston and other cities— is the first major natural disaster of Trump’s presidency, and the yet-to-be-determined scope of the damage appears likely to require a years-long federal project. He will visit Texas Tuesday— and may return to the region again on Saturday.
Aug. 28– 8:30 p.m.: Aransas Pass Mayor Ramiro Gomez announced the city’s police force is enforcing a curfew from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Any person caught out of their house will be stopped and interrogated. 6:30 p.m.: Corpus Christi is connecting volunteers with donations to those affected by Hurricane Harvey. The information will go to organizations that have…
Jason Strong filed the lawsuit in May 2016 against Waukegan, the Lake County Major Crime Task Force and other municipalities whose officers were involved in the case through the task force. Waukegan would end up paying about $100,000 of the proposed settlement, city attorney Robert Long said. Strong had been convicted of murder stemming from the slaying of a…
President Donald Trump is preparing for his trip to Texas Tuesday to survey the damage from Hurricane Harvey, the massive storm that has dumped torrents of rain across the state, flooding Houston and other cities. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has canceled a planned visit to Kazakhstan and Ukraine because of Hurricane Harvey. U.S. companies are major investors…
Aug. 29– Harvey, with its almost unimaginable rains and devastating flooding on the Gulf Coast, has been the focus of national attention. With forecast models showing a northward jog, wind gusts up to 50 mph were possible at the Shore, the National Weather Service said, and the storm is likely to generate a harvest of what the weather service is calling “dangerous” rip…
Aug. 28– Once again President Trump has managed to distract attention from a more important issue. This time, it was with his pardon of a racist, octogenarian Arizona sheriff who violated the Constitution in his mad pursuit of illegal immigrants. In fact, Congress came up with logical solutions twice in the last 11 years but each time lacked the political resolve to…
Aug. 29– As Texas grapples with unprecedented flooding due to Tropical Storm Harvey, “catastrophe teams” from insurance companies are moving in to assess damage to hard-hit areas, the Insurance Council of Texas said. “It is the worst flooding we have ever seen and the fact that it is occurring over a heavily populated area makes it that much worse,” said Mark Hanna, a…
Aug. 28– A controversial new Texas law designed to protect insurance companies from abusive lawsuits in the wake of “forces of nature”– such as hurricanes– is about to get an immediate test. The law is set to take effect Friday, while much of the Texas coast remains a drenched disaster area after Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Corpus Christi last week as a…
Aug. 29– For the fifth time since 2013, lawyers for Texas will defend an abortion-related law or regulation Tuesday in the Austin federal courthouse, where they hope to reverse a string of legal defeats that included a precedent-setting decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. Greg Abbott, that bans “dismemberment abortions,” a term not used in medical literature or by…
Aug. 29– As floodwaters continue to surge in much of southeast Texas, hundreds of State Farm and Allstate employees have flocked to the state to start assessing the mounting damage from Hurricane Harvey. Total insured losses from the storm, which made landfall Friday and has not stopped pummeling much of the affected area, could be $10 billion to $20 billion,…
Aug. 29– Brad Little wants to cut income taxes by $350 million if he’s elected governor. This is perhaps the most eye-catching promise in Phase Two of Little’s ” Idaho grown jobs plan,” which he released last week and which focuses on ways to cut taxes and government spending. Little released Phase 1, which was focused on health care policy, reducing regulations on…
Aug. 29– Florida insurance regulators have ordered another Broward County insurer, Guarantee Insurance Co., to stop writing new business after discovering financial weaknesses. Guarantee disagrees with the auditor’s statement that its surplus was overstated, said Gex “Jay” Richardson, Patriot National general counsel. By contrast, Guarantee agreed to the…
