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Trick or treating is a time honored tradition each October 31. But before homeowners open their doors to the witches and superheroes that live on their block, they should consider taking precautions to make their property as safe as possible for potential trick-or-treaters. Check your Outdoor Li...

More than 100 teens representing Mary E. Phillips, Enloe and Apex High Schools joined together for an Allstate Foundation Keep the Drive Summit and Rally on Tuesday, October 14, 2008. Keep the Drive Raleigh is a teen-to-teen movement to help students change the way they think and act in a car. It...

Have you ever seen the series 'Planet in Peril' on CNN?  Well, we've got our very own perilous situation right here in North Carolina.  Our insurer of last resort along the coast, 'The Beach Plan' is in trouble.  A new independent study performed by The Property & Casualty Insurers Association of...

Finally, a mainstream news article that tells it like it is about buying insurance.  Although the article is written specifically for purchasing auto insurance, you can quite easily translate the advice into home insurance buying or any kind of insurance purchase for that matter.  The two most im...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that there were 493 fewer DUI related driving fatalaties in 2007 compared to 2006.  That amounts to a 3.7% drop nationwide.  37 states had declines in DUI deaths. Hidden in the details were some disturbing figures for North Carolinians...

Many homeowners become landlords at some point in their real estate ownership careers. When they do, they often overlook a critical step: To replace their homeowner's insurance policy with a landlord insurance policy. A homeowners insurance policy does not provide the same kind of protection that...

I'm writing this as a follow up to my earlier post about hurricane Bertha.  It got me thinking.  If we ever get another season with a few major storms like Katrina and Andrew making landfall in the US, who will end up footing the bill for all the damage? The answer may surprise you. Of course the...

Here we go again.  Bertha is churning in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and within just a few hours has now been classified as a Category 3 hurricane with maximum wind speeds of 115 mph.  This means that we have just entered the 2008 Hurricane Season!  Woohoo! Although the National Hurricane Ce...

Residents in Sioux Falls, S.D., continued to top the chart as the safest drivers in the U.S., according to the fourth annual "Allstate America's Best Drivers Report™." The average driver in Sioux Falls experiences an auto collision every 14.6 years. Compared to the national likelihood of a colli...

  Let’s face it, we live in an online world.  It seems like every other purchase we make nowadays takes place with a virtual vendor: Movies, music, computers, electronics, books, clothes, etc.  The list goes on and on. Obviously, the two main reasons people buy online are convenience and price.  ...