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How to Protect your Boat from a Tropical Storm or Hurricane

Boat lovers recognize that many enduring memories are created from leisure or sport time on the water. Yet, no one can deny the hazards that tropical storms and hurricanes present. Aside of course for having already...

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Cyberattacks: How a Business can protect from Losses

Cyber attacks continue to be the leading fear among business owners. According to a recent study by patient information management firm, Protenus, there were three times as many breaches in 2018 within the health...

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Interesting Facts about Memorial Day Weekend

As we enjoy the holiday weekend by participating in recreational activities together with family and friends, we would be remiss if we would not take some time to focus on the serious nature of the juncture. Prime...

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Errors and Omissions: Why a Labor Union needs related Insurance

Errors and Omissions policies are also known as Professional Liability insurance. Errors and Omissions policies that are written for labor unions can protect a union and its members from claims in regard to genuine acts...

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How to Defend Yourself from an Attacking Aggressive Dog

It happened to us just last week. After exiting a friend’s home, we started toward our car, parked by the curbside. Then, a neighbor yelled something and we found ourselves in the direct path of his barking large dog....

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Businesses: How to Avoid False Workers Comp Claims

Insurance fraud costs all of us: the insurance industry, businesses and employees. Business owners can empower themselves against workers comp fraud with advice from the pros. RELATED: Two recent fraudulent workers comp...

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How to Save Yourself from a Flood When in the Car

With hurricanes, tropical storms and floods in the news this very wet season, the frightening statistic on flash floods and car risks has insurance professionals highlighting important safety tips. Get this: close to...

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How to Keep Safe when Walking at Night

Pedestrians always face risks when it comes to vehicular traffic. Certainly night-time walking significantly magnifies the safety hazards. The insurance industry’s familiarity with associated insurance claims has made...

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How to Prevent a Thief from Breaking into Your Car

“I remember it like it was yesterday,” said my friend who ironically works in the auto insurance department of an agency. “I swung into my driveway after midnight right alongside my daughter’s parked car and noticed the...

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Why Speeding in NY (and Elsewhere) is a Big No-No

The first week of August is marked in NY by “Speed Week”, a state-wide campaign to target drivers that speed beyond the posted speed limit. “Studies have shown, speeding kills,” says NY State Police Superintendent...

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Not-So-Fun Facts about Floods

A PRIME Insurance Special Report - It’s about 9:20 Friday morning on July 6th in Lakewood, NJ. The early morning’s heavy rain has subsided. There is no longer a need for my windshield wipers’ winding actions. I make a...

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Summertime and Barbecue Fire Safety

Spring turns to summer as families and friends get together in the outdoors to celebrate life. Grilling is as much a part of the season as the warm rays of the sun but here’s the warning: barbecues can be dangerous....

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Professional Liability Insurance for a Document Destroying Company

If you are a document destroying company, your clients make up a variety of businesses, nonprofits and organizations that take the privacy of their clients seriously enough to hire your professional services. Your...

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How to Keep Bears Away from Your Home

- A PRIME Insurance Spring/Summer Bulletin - Among other states, NY, NJ and PA boast forests, lakes and countryside that are the envy of the urban dweller. Nonetheless, folks living in rural areas where bears ramble are...

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Homeowners Insurance: How to Make a Home Self-Inspection

- PRIME Insurance Presents UPC’s Home Self-Inspection - Prime Insurance proudly partners with UPC to announce the UPC Home Self-Inspection Program! This novel HSI option enables home insurance clients to opt for a do-it-...

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National Ladder Safety Month – a Guide to Workers Safety

Ladders are one of the chief sources of injury and death in a place of work. The stunning price tag linked to this has caused a rise in costly workers comp insurance claims as well as a reduced labor force. As per a...

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Why Your Business Needs Cyber Insurance

Does your company Take credit card payments? Use online banking? Have a social media presence? Store confidential customer or employee information on the computer? If you answered in the affirmative to any of these...

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Fun Facts about Dressing for the Winter Chill

It’s cold. So cold, in fact that the weathermen are talking about record-breaking lows and that’s nothing to sneeze about, even though plenty of us are doing just that. For the fun of things, let’s take a look at some...

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Auto Insurance: How to Skate on the Same Ice as NJ Devils

A PRIME Insurance – Plymouth Rock Special! - Prime Insurance partners with Plymouth Rock to make auto coverage and sports dreams come true! Plymouth Rock’s coalition with the New Jersey Prudential Center and NJ Devils...

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Insurance Claims: How to avoid Damaging Statements

If you file any form of insurance claim – from homeowners to auto to workers comp – be aware that what you say can work against you. It is common for insurance claims adjusters and insurance company risk managers to use...

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How to Understand a Homeowners Insurance Claim Process

A PRIME Insurance – National General Special - PRIME’s partnership with the leading property insurance providers helps homeowners deal with losses and damages in an optimum manner. Below we list some of the most common...

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PRIME Insurance and National General: Coverage Options that Work

National General ranks high among the leading insurance companies that PRIME deals with, giving customers the full spectrum of premiere service. The Claims Process for NatGen Premier Auto Insurance - Frequently Asked...

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How to prevent Employee Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction

Every business should be concerned about employee health, safety and accompanying workers comp costs. As the media highlights the devastating effects of workers' pain management and opioid dependency, insurance...

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Overseas Insurance: How to Protect Your Business

Commercial, educational and religious groups traveling overseas face wide international risks. In response, PRIME Insurance has teamed up with the leading companies, like CHUBB, in order to offer the needed protection....

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Auto Accidents and Fake Injuries that Affect Us All

Fraud embezzles US insurance companies out of approximately $32 billion per year and painfully reflects in an increase of higher premiums for all policyholders. As a result, the insurers tend to look quizzically at...

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EgyptAir and Why You Need Travel Insurance

The sudden disappearance of EgyptAir Flight 804, in May of 2016 held the world on edge. Whether the tragic crash was terrorist related or a mechanical failure is what investigators are still probing. For the rest of us,...

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Why Social Services Need All-in-One Insurance

The social needs of our communities are addressed by multi-faceted assistance. This includes: Abused Victim Shelters, as well as Animal Shelters: Big Brother and Sister Groups; Botanical Garden Groups, Caregiver...

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Insurance for Property Managers, Why?

(It's Coverage for Liability Claims!) - If you are a property manager, you understand the insurance implications. You've got your own form of risk exposure that needs specific insurance coverage. Here's what can happen...

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Why Tech Companies Need Better Insurance

Technology Errors and Omissions Professional Liability Coverage - It's a different world we live in than even a decade ago. And the liability risks faced by tech companies are even higher than ever. Claim Scenarios that...

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Why I need a Life Insurance Policy

Term, Whole and Universal Life Insurance: these are all differing life insurance plans, designed for the various stages of an individual's lifecycle. An insurance professional will tell you that having the right type of...

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Why Your Home-Business Needs Commercial Insurance

- Your NJ Homeowners Insurance Isn't Enough! - If you run any form of business within your home, don't kid yourself: your Homeowners Insurance policy probably does not have adequate coverage to protect you from all the...

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Why a Realtor Really Needs Errors and Omissions Insurance

- NJ Home-Seller's Defense against Lawsuits - If you are a real estate agent, the last thing you want is a lawsuit. But lawsuits are a fact of life among professionals like you. And they occur quite often. A real estate...

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7 Astonishing Things Invented by Accident

What happens when mistakes occur? At times they lead to amazing results, such as the invention of some of our most indispensable products! Chocolate Chip Cookies Yes, this delicious variety was created by chance! As...

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Own a Life Science Company?

- Your Insurance Needs are Different than Most - Are you a biotechnology, specialty pharmaceutical or medical product manufacturing company or a contract research or site management organization? PRIME has the coverage...

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Nursing Home Risks and You

PRIME Insurance and CNA Bring You Coverage Plus - PRIME Insurance presents CNA's Aging Services Insurance. But it's more than excellent coverage. It's a plan that offers guidance in managing the risks. Carefully...

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NURSING HOME RESIDENT FALL PREVENTION

A PRIME Insurance and CNA Special - How much better would your aging facility be if your resident fall rate would decrease? - Allegations associated with resident falls: CNA Aging Services Claims Report 2014 45.6% -...

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One More interesting Workers Comp case from 2014

STRANGER THAN FICTION - What do you get when you defraud six different insurance companies by creating fake injuries for fake employees who work for imaginary employers? The answer is nearly half a million dollars in...

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Prime Insurance Agency Presents….ACE USA Industry Solutions

- Non-Profit Organizations You know your non-profit organization's goals. We know risk. Let us reduce yours. - US-based non-profit organizations operate worldwide, responding to need on a global basis. Workers and...

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Another Interesting Workers’ Compensation Fraud Case From 2014

Robin Hood of Workers' Comp A doctor in California was sentenced to five years of probation with 12 months of home confinement for defrauding the Federal Government and submitting fraudulent workers' compensation claims...

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Fascinating Workers Fraud Case From 2014

Prescription to Prison - - In March of 2014, a man in Washington state was convicted of making 51 trips to emergency rooms and urgent care clinics across western Washington to fraudulently obtain pain medications. The...

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The big freeze: 5 signs your pipes are frozen and how to thaw them

The pervasive deep freeze that has blanketed much of the U.S. is causing a host of problems for homeowners - everything from where to put several feet of snow when shoveling to preventing ice dams and leaks on snow-...

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