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While tailgating before a football game, Tina Redskina tells Ace that she can’t use her “removable tailgate system” becuase her insurer says it’s excluded under her homeowners C coverage. Does Ace agree?

An insured has a small kitchen fire that causes fire and smoke damage to the range, hood and cabinets in the area of the fire. In addition, other cabinets in the L-shaped kitchen are just smoke-damaged. The carrier says it will only cover the two cabinets

By: Volume 109, No. 9

Don Grauel has seen it more than once: a client who balks when Grauel walks in carrying a 15-page sales presentation. “Younger people expect bullet points,” explains the president of L.E. Goldsborough & Son, Inc., a Baltimore-based multilines agency. “And

Insuring Rental Dwellings; Glass Scratched by Window Cleaners…Covered by Your HO Policy?; Glass Scratched by Window Cleaners…Covered by Your HO Policy?

The November general election is just a few weeks away, and the Big “I” is working hard on many levels to ensure that the best stewards of small business are in public office. The Big “I” is well-known and respected on Capitol Hill.

“Can you see down yet?” my wife muttered. “How much longer until we land?” Hearing Mary as we returned from our latest trip to the West Coast on Big “I” business sent me into a bit of a trance and helped me focus on my very last magazine column during my

At the annual Goat Cheese Festival, a musician injures herself when she jumps off the event stage while performing. The event’s hosts CGL insurer denies the claim, saying the stage—actually, a trailer—was considered auto even though it was disconnected fr

By: Volume 109, No. 8

Call Chris Boone old-fashioned—or call him realistic. As executive vice president of marketing for Bancorp South Insurance Services in Jackson, Miss., Boone selects the insurance companies this 30-branch agency uses. The agency currently represents 200 ca