How Weather Patterns Are Changing the Landscape of Farm Insurance

How Weather Patterns Are Changing the Landscape of Farm Insurance

Farmers have always worked at the mercy of the weather—but in recent years, unpredictable climate patterns have created new challenges that go far beyond the typical seasonal swings. As storms become stronger, droughts last longer, and temperature extremes grow more common, the role of insurance in your operation has shifted from “safety net” into a […]

A Business Insurance Primer

A Business Insurance Primer

Discover basic risk exposures that present a need for commercial insurance. Read some fun history about the beginning of modern business insurance. Business insurance. Who needs it? How did it get started in the modern market? The answer to both is connected to the expression “necessity is the mother of invention”. Essentially, anyone or any […]

Protecting Your Business, Reputation, and Providing Peace of Mind

Protecting your business, reputation, and providing peace of mind

As an artisan contractor—whether you’re a plumber, electrician, carpenter, painter, or mason—your hands-on skills are the heart of your business. But with every project comes potential risks: property damage, accidental injuries, or even dissatisfied customers who may hold you responsible for financial losses. That’s where liability insurance becomes one of the most important tools in […]

Your Home, Your Responsibility

Your Home, Your Responsibility

Read a basic homeowners’ maintenance checklist to prepare for colder weather. Learn how homeowners may prepare for or prevent disruptive loss to their homes. Homeownership is an ongoing responsibility, as much as it is an ongoing expense. Mortgage payments, property taxes, home insurance, utility bills, routine maintenance and repairs, necessary replacements, optional upgrades. To some […]

What You Need to Know Before You Purchase Your First Apartment Building

What You Need to Know Before You Purchase Your First Apartment Building

Insurance is more than a box to check for owners of apartments, condos, and rental properties, it’s a critical safeguard against real financial and legal risks. Property damage, tenant safety, and rising legal liability make commercial habitational properties some of the most complex to insure. To get it right, owners need coverage that reflects their unique […]

Called to Gather and Serve

Called to Gather and Serve

Discover parallel themes applicable to church life/works and to insurance. Read an out-of-the-box presentation of themes relating to both church life and insurance. Worship gathers church members and friends. It is a coming together for praise, prayer, and communion. From that solemn ceremony, we are each called to go forth and serve, as our Creator […]

The Insurance Side of a Healthy Farm

The Insurance Side of a Healthy Farm

If you’ve been paying attention to what’s happening in agriculture lately, you’ve probably heard the term regenerative farming. It’s more than just a buzzword—it’s a movement that’s all about giving back to the soil, not just extracting from it. I’ve had more and more conversations, recently, with farmers who are experimenting with cover crops, reducing […]

Welcome to National Cybersecurity Month

Welcome to National Cybersecurity Month

For the past month the agency has been dealing with a cyber attack to our partner’s at SonicWall. This forced us to pivot and find another provider to protect our network!  While we did not sustain a direct loss, the lost productivity and the time to migrate to the new system were very disruptive. I […]

Champion Building Codes

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Learn why it is essential for contractors to comply with building codes. Read about the connection between insurability and enhanced building codes. Competition drives progress and innovation, and quality separates the wheat from the chaff. The contracting world is highly competitive, so much so that cutting corners and low-balling expenses to get jobs is a […]

Before and After: The Cost of Underinsuring Your Home

Split image comparison with a modern house labeled "Before" and a cartoon squirrel, and a quaint cottage labeled "After" with a confused squirrel.

I’m often asked how home insurance values are determined and why there is a disconnect between market value and it’s insured value. Everyone loves the lowest price on home and auto insurance. Myself included. The ultimate goal though is to ensure that if something happens, you will be made whole again. To do this, it’s […]