With vegetable gardening and composting gaining popularity and a higher intolerance for environmental mishaps, business and government needs to get up to speed, Caroline McDonald asserts in her blog. Check it out at www.NoRiskZone.com.
Adding wind coverage to the National Flood Insurance Program would benefit insurers by flowing premium dollars to them while removing risk and capital costs from the private sector, a House legislator's office said.
Weather Services International (WSI) has slightly lowered its forecast for the 2010 tropical storm season due to a "relatively inactive June/July period."
Brown & Brown's 2010 second-quarter net income increased 1 percent, or $517,000, over the prior year's second quarter to $41.2 million, the insurance broker said.