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Homeowners insurance quotes and CLUE and A-PLUS

You may want to believe insurers are hot competitors and never talk to each other. Except you would be wrong. There’s a steady flow of information into two central databases. The bigger and more important is called CLUE (Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange) with the smaller competitor called A-PLUS (the Automated Property Loss Underwriting System run [...]

Homeowners insurance when burglarized

It’s a curious fact that the federal government does very little to monitor the amount of crime. You would imagine the Department of Justice would be interested to follow the statistics of wrongdoing so that resources could be targeted where most needed. Instead, we have judicial statistics that record the number of cases coming before [...]