Who do you love? February is the Month of Love, and the Insure Your Love picture mosaic provides you with the opportunity to proudly display the ones you love and have protected by owning life insurance. Upload up to 20 photos featuring your loved ones whose financial well-being you've safeguarded with life insurance. Add a caption describing who's in the photo and why it's meaningful to you.
For every photo that is added, $1 will be donated to the LIFE Lessons Scholarship Fund, which provides tuition assistance to students who have lost a parent. By being a part of the mosaic, you'll also be helping to send a powerful message to the millions of Americans who don't have life insurance, but need it. Add your photos today!
If you think about it, buying life insurance is one of the purest expressions of true love. Life insurance helps guarantee that your loved ones will be provided for financially, even after you’re gone. What a wonderful way to say “I love you” to the most important people in your life. Where can you start? Check out the LIFE Foundation’s Web site (click the title) for a wealth of information and tools about life insurance. Most important, seek professional advice from a qualified insurance professional. Your Farm Family agent can help you accurately assess your insurance needs and help you determine what type of life insurance best meets your needs. You can find one in your area by clicking the Find An Agent button on the right of this page..
If you suffered a loss such as a fire, would you be able to remember everything, or its value? Creating and updating an inventory of your personal possessions is one of the best ways to make the most of your homeowners or renters insurance. Document all your belongings now, or update yours if you haven’t in the last year or two. You can keep everything in a low-tech manner such as writing everything down in a notebook and keeping receipts. You can videotape all your possessions and keep it in a safe, separate place from your home. Or use Insurance Information Institute’s new home inventory software to make the process as simple as possible. Go to http://knowyourstuff.org/iii/login.html and use your computer or your smart phone to sign up for Know Your Stuff® - Home Inventory, the I.I.I.’s Web-based inventory software. The software includes free, secure online storage so you can access your inventory anywhere, anytime. If you have an iPhone, you can also download the new Know Your Stuff® - Home Inventory app in the iTunes App Store. Information about your belongings can be entered either through the iPhone app or through the Web-based software and your data will automatically sync between the two. So you choose your method – but just be sure to inventory your valuables today!
Safeguard your home. Keep your workplace safe. Maintain your vehicles. Practice a healthy lifestyle. Plan for retirement. Your resolutions might be different than ours. But as you look over your list, don’t overlook the need to get an insurance check-up. If you haven’t reviewed your insurance with your agent in the past year, we highly recommend it. Changes in your life – new tractor, bigger house, second baby, new business, more employees – may mean changes are needed in your insurance. This year, resolve to protect whatever makes your life rich and rewarding. Contact your Farm Family Agent today about a professional insurance review.
Loving family ... supportive friends ... good health ... safe home ... successful business ... rewarding work ... quiet moments. Whatever makes your life rich and rewarding, be sure to protect it.
At this time of year, we reflect upon and give thanks for our clients who make our business a true pleasure. We're grateful you trust us to protect what means so much to you: your home, farm, business, vehicles, lives and financial future. We take this responsibility seriously. We want to do our level best to make sure your needs are being met. May this season bring you peace, joy and some relief. May you find a moment to reflect with gratitude upon the year that has passed, and anticipate the one ahead.
As you gear up for “snowplowing season,” it’s smart to take a good, hard look at your operations. Not only should your equipment be in primecondition and your employees properly trained, but you should also review your
practices and procedures.
Here you’ll find some important risk management tools to consider in your snow or ice
maintenance operations. These tips and tools could help you reduce your loss exposure.
You can print the handouts to post or distribute. You can also copy the list, form and log
templates and fill them in with your own business information. Click the title to access the guide.
American National Insurance Company (Nasdaq: ANAT) announced third quarter 2011 net income of $57,569,000 ($2.15 per diluted share) compared to net income of
$47,056,000 ($1.76 per diluted share) for the same period in 2010. Click the title for the complete story.
There's no escaping it, unless you're a snowbird headed south. The Farmers' Almanac is predicting colder than normal temperatures this winter. Now's the time to prepare for winter. The first step should include reviewing your insurance coverage with your agent. Make sure you have enough insurance to rebuild your home and replace its contents. The Insurance Information Institute also offers the following tips. For outside your house: clean out gutters and install gutter guards; trim trees and remove dead branches; repair steps and handrails; seal cracks in holes in outside walls and foundations. For inside: keep the house warm; add extra insulation to attics, basements and crawl spaces; have your heating system serviced; check pipes; install an emergency pressure release valve in your plumbing system; check smoke and fire alarms; learn how to shut the water off and know where your pipes are located. For complete information, click the title.
Little League. Music lessons. Grocery shopping. Mortgage payments. College plans. Your family’s well-being is important to you, and you want them to have the best. But would your spouse and family be secure if you were to die unexpectedly? That’s where life insurance comes in. Depending on your stage of life, there’s a plan on which you can build a solid foundation. One that can provide support and peace of mind for you, so you can go on living.
September is Life Insurance Awareness Month. Talk to your Farm Family agent about what kind of financial plan is right for you.
Harvest to Hand, an exciting new iPhone app, is designed to give consumers a convenient way to support a sustainable way of life for local agriculture across America.
Through an iPhone or iPod Touch this app connects you to * farmers markets * local festivals * locally made products * family-friendly farms * local wineries and eateries * seasonal agritourism venues.
Have an event you’d like to promote? Simply go to www.HarvestToHand.com today and follow the easy instructions to “Enter your Information.” This app is open to everyone*: the main criteria are that the venue, event or farm must be accessible to the general public and feature locally grown or produced products.
Harvest to Hand is a labor of love of Farm Family American National Property And Casualty Company and American National Insurance Company We’re proud of our agricultural roots and happy to introduce you to Harvest to Hand.
Available on the App Store
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*Subject to terms of use at www.harvesttohand.com