2023 Visions Newsletter
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Member Services Representative
Co-operative Insurance Companies has been providing protection for individuals, farms and businesses across Vermont and New Hampshire for more than 100 years. We are committed to providing top-notch insurance products and services to our members. Our core values of accountability, integrity, respect, stewardship, and a focus on the member experience, have established us as a …
Protect Your Investment with Landlord Insurance
Renting your residential property can be a smart way to invest in your future. It can provide long-term income and cash flow, as well as tax perks. Your property will also likely appreciate over time, further adding to your investment portfolio. However, being a landlord comes with risks, such as property and liability issues. Rental …
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11 Ways to Lower Your Homeowners Insurance Rates
Do you want to lower your homeowners insurance rates? Well, you’ve come to the right blog! The price for homeowners insurance can vary widely based on your insurer, the size and location of your home, and many other factors. But there are ways you can save in most scenarios, from installing security systems to bundling …
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Is Your Property an Attractive Nuisance?
Attractive nuisances can pose an unexpected liability risk to home and property owners. What’s an attractive nuisance? Basically, from a homeowners insurance perspective, it’s anything that creates a potentially dangerous condition on your property that may attract trespassers and result in health or safety hazards, such as injury or death, especially for children. If you …
Guide to Insurance for Contractors
Imagine this: you’re a carpenter remodeling a kitchen and the homeowner trips over a power tool left out by one of your workers and hits her head. You have to call 911 and she’s transported to the hospital. Or, you’re a plumber, and your apprentice accidentally cracks a pipe, flooding your customer’s basement. Or maybe …
6 Ways to Reduce Office Insurance Claims
Offices present a unique set of potential risks and injuries for employees and staff. Office work might not be as risky as a construction or manufacturing job, but it does come with its own employee risk factors. Office employees tend to work indoors for long hours in seated positions that aren’t ergonomically sound. This opens …
10 Ways Drivers Can Lower Their Auto Insurance Rates
An automobile accident occurs once every six minutes in the United States. That’s 14,386 accidents per day, on average. The frequency of accidents may seem shocking at first, until you consider things like speeding statistics: And that’s just speeding. There are other hazards out there on the road, such as: Protecting yourself from all this …
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10 Tips to Help Prevent Hotel Insurance Claims
The hospitality industry—specifically hotels, motels, and bed and breakfasts—faces a more difficult operating environment than it has in many years past. A recent HUB International 2023 Outlook report illuminated some of these difficult realities: These findings mean that the risk is high for business owners and operators in the hospitality industry on multiple fronts. However, …
Will Your Homeowners Insurance Cover a Disaster? Maybe…
Attention homeowners! Are you among the 60% of homeowners who are now underinsured due to rising building costs and inflation? Are you prepared to pay tens of thousands of dollars out-of-pocket to rebuild your home if you suffer from a devastating fire, hurricane, or other natural disasters? Did you renovate or remodel your home during …
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