The Lower New York Insurance Blog

The American Worker Plans, working with LifeStrive and the Allstate Workplace Division, have begun national marketing of an innovative program of wellness coupled with critical illness or cancer protection.  Under this program, you can offer a group package of critical illness or cancer plans, inclusive of a preventive care benefit, …

Investment returns are likely to be better in the second quarter than in the first, and weather-related catastrophe losses are “just a bit above the typical second-quarter’s result,” estimated Edward Shields of Sandler O’Neill & Partners. He expects “a fairly positive” second quarter except possibly in one area - the …

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–The insurance industry is seeking changes to legislation to create the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency that would prevent insurers from being swept into the agency’s purview.
Thirteen insurance trade groups, in a letter to key lawmakers, asked to exclude mortgage, title and credit insurance from the agency’s …

Promoters of concerts take on great risks.  Many performing stars are temperamental, have addictions and are sick often, thus having concerts canceled since the star can not perform. These risks along with other risks as rented stage or venue facing a peril, performer just decides not to perform, security issues where authorities close down the [...]

SEATTLE - When Mark Moody and Glenda Krull could no longer afford both health insurance and mortgage payments, the Edmonds couple knew which had to go. They sold their house. Moody, 60, had a liver transplant four years ago and may need another. He alone pays $1,345 a …

Rising sea-levels could one day leave significant portions of the Florida Keys underwater, experts say.
Researcher Evan Flugman said in a Florida International University report the Florida Keys are at the forefront of the emerging threat of rising sea-levels in the southern portion of Florida, The Miami Herald reported Sunday.
”South Florida …

Introduction
Wm. E. Morrell Inc, of White Plains NY is celebrating their centennial for the last 100 years in business! Founded in 1909 and incorporated in 1913, they have served the businesses and households of lower New York for a Century.
Wm. E. Morrell Inc  “Morrell Insurance”  History Brief
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Our favorite insurance technology-related blog posts from around the Web (May 24-30, 2009):
The Consequences of Printing Money
Celent’s Nicolas Michellod examines the current state of the credit crisis, paying particular attention to the amount of money currently in circulation across the global economy. “More than questioning if there is really a credit crisis, what appears to [...]

A web site, dedicated for promoting the non-nationalize direction for health care, contains videos, links and other information to present their point of view.
There are many debates on Nationalizing the Health Care System.  The debates predominately boil down to two typical questions:

Is free health care more expensive than than the currently available  private system -  [...]

Despite first-quarter profits being dragged dawn by winter storm claims, The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. earned its third ratings upgrade in 15 months, the Worcester, Mass.-based multi-regional …