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February 10, 2021 4:00 AM Ed Leefeldt - Forbes Advisor
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Hardening your home against wildfires is a necessity if you live in a state like California. Over the past four years, dark clouds of ash and smoke from hundreds of out-of-control blazes have blanketed the Golden State.
“Every year we make records in terms of destruction,” says Cal Fire Chief Daniel Berland in an investigatory meeting held virtually in December 2020. “And the loss of life is at an all-time high.”
California isn’t the only state dealing with massive infernos like the Camp Fire, which killed 86 people and destroyed a whole town in the northern part of the state. In fact, 2020 was a record for the entire country, says the Center for Disaster Philanthropy. Nine million acres were incinerated, double that of last year.
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KBRA Releases Research: Technology and Banking Accelerating Into the Future
February 8, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 8, 2021
Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) releases research which provides our current views on how technology is reshaping the community and regional banking sector. We examine technology’s paradigm shift in how banks interact with consumers and commercial entities and COVID-19’s impact on accelerating the financial industry’s digital transformation.
The report focuses on three key areas including lending, deposits, and processing with specific examples and benchmarking from within KBRA’s rated universe of banks. In addition, the report provides KBRA’s view on technology-forward banking models including digital banks, payments-oriented banks, banking-as-a-service models, and others, to determine how they have already brought lasting changes to the banki
/PRNewswire/ CNO Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CNO) today announced that for the quarter ending December 31, 2020, net income was $111.8 million, or $0.80.
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February 4, 2021 7:12 AM John Egan - Forbes Advisor
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Citing European insurers that are clamping down on issuing life insurance policies to consumers who have had Covid-19, a U.S. consumer advocacy group is calling on insurance regulators here to protect Americans who face similar circumstances.
In a Jan. 28 letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America asked the association to adopt a model rule that would govern delaying or denying life insurance coverage to someone with a Covid-19 history. The advocacy group says the rule, which would be made available to state insurance regulators to voluntarily adopt, should:
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Alabamian Insurance Industry – Governance, Risk, and Compliance’ report is the result of extensive research into the insurance regulatory framework in Alabama.
It provides detailed analysis of the insurance regulations for life, property, motor, liability, personal accident and health, and marine, aviation and transit insurance. The report specifies various requirements for the establishment and operation of insurance and reinsurance companies and intermediaries.
The report brings together research, modeling and analysis expertise, giving insurers access to information on prevailing insurance regulations, and recent and upcoming changes in the regulatory framework, taxation and legal system in the state. The report also includes the scope of non-admitted insurance in the state.