Agent Assist: Wholesale Insurance

For years, the North Carolina wind pool — officially known as the North Carolina Joint Underwriting Association and North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association (NCJUA/NCIUA) — offered protection limits up to $1.5 million. In those days, agents active in the...

Preserve and Protect

Hollywood’s art thief is a suave bon vivant, a dashing type who swoops in to liberate a valuable painting from the wall of a wealthy, boorish businessman. Lurking behind the movie romance is a much grittier reality, however. A glimpse of the case files of the Los...

The Inspection Imperative

Mind the gap — that is, beware the difference between the cost of purchasing an expensive home that has unique features and the cost of actually replacing that home with all the same features. That ever present gap may widen amid unstable market values, making a...

For High-End Homes, Persistence is Good Policy

Finding appropriate coverage for high value homes can be difficult, especially when a home’s value exceeds the underwriting guidelines or capacity in a given market. In cases involving a high-profile home, incomplete underwriting information or a negatively perceived...