http://www.liveassetinsurance.com/blog Live Asset Insurance Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:19:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Tea Fires that swept Santa Barbara in November burned 1,940 acres and added to California's already record breaking 2008 year of 801,726 burned acres. Besides costing almost 6 million dollars in firefighting costs alone, the Montecito Tea Fire destroyed  230 residents homes.   Along with the homes is valuable landscaping on ... http://www.liveassetinsurance.com/blog/2008/california-tea-fire-support-provided-by-our-partners-hmi/ As Managing Director of Live Asset Insurance I get a lot of requests to speak about our exciting new product to various interested groups across the country. I was recently approached by Dr. David Reddick, PhD who runs a website www.climateandinsurance.orgthat is uniquely focused on insurance and climate change. Since our ... http://www.liveassetinsurance.com/blog/2008/the-connection-between-insurance-and-climate-change/ Edward O'Hare over at The Rough Notes Company Inc. wrote a wonderful piece on Live Asset Growers Insurance for the October 2008 publication of their online and print Rough Notes magazine: Rough Notes is a great trade communication for the insurance industry, so having this coverage is a wonderful way for ... http://www.liveassetinsurance.com/blog/2008/our-nursery-tree-farms-and-landscaping-insurance-gets-press/ Flood zones: love them or hate them, it doesn't matter, you live in one. But what does it really mean to live in a flood zone? How are they determined? What is the difference between zone A and zone X? Do you really need flood insurance? Without getting too detailed, let's visit some key areas in ... http://www.liveassetinsurance.com/blog/2008/flood-insurance-a-to-v/ Surprise! This year there's an estimated record number of natural catastrophes predicted to occur in the United States. It seems this is becoming old news. Summer arrives with twenty some odd large Atlantic storms, 12-16 becoming hurricanes, and 6-8 expected to make landfall causing "significant damage". At the same time, the forecasts are proving to be ... http://www.liveassetinsurance.com/blog/2008/more-claimslower-prices-whats-wrong-with-this-picture/ Anybody in the tri-state area would be able to tell you about the hectic weather we had this past June. Sweltering heat, severe thunderstorms, and everything in between wrecked havoc in our daily lives, or so it seemed. While I found myself on a quest for air conditioning one week, ... http://www.liveassetinsurance.com/blog/2008/june-2008-understanding-the-significance-of-live-asset-insurance/ I don’t think anyone is ever ready to handle what Mother Nature will do if she gets angry and decides to let loose. It also doesn’t make it easier when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announces that they are laying odds from 60% to 70% that there will be ... http://www.liveassetinsurance.com/blog/2008/hurricane-season-approaches-are-you-ready/ As families moved from the cities to the suburbs and planted "beautiful" trees in the same spots that farmers removed "nuisance" trees a hundred years before, the "Live Asset" movement started to take shape. New trees were viewed as welcome additions to the family. They became a part of our ... http://www.liveassetinsurance.com/blog/2008/the-value-of-trees-worthy-of-protection/ Many readers are unaware our Government has a taxpayer subsidized insurance program for “growers”. This important insurance program has seen many variations over the years. It supports and protects our agricultural way of life in the context of regular natural disasters that annually destroy crops. Insuring crops is similar to ... http://www.liveassetinsurance.com/blog/2008/crop-insurance-you-get-what-you-pay-for/ Live Asset Insurance will be updating our "What's New" blog with valuable information and resources for the Live Asset Insurance Industry.  We welcome any comments and feel free to send us any questions you might have. We will be posting a monthly newsletter and keeping you up to date on what ... http://www.liveassetinsurance.com/blog/2008/hello-world/