Congress is considering making some changes to FHA reform and as a result, home mortgage insurance rates could increase. In other insurance news, those who benefit from veterans’ health care have the best health insurance options and Georgia has taken a stand against motorists using their cell phones while driving, which could be a good thing for auto insurance.

Mortgage Insurance Rates to Increase

If you have mortgage insurance, which is to cover the costs for those who cannot pay 20 percent of their loan for their home’s down payment, you could see a rate increase. Mor

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(MARKET WIRE) — 06/21/10 — ClickFox announces the release of a new book being published July 7th, Agile Development and Business Goals: The Six Week Solution. The book is authored by four of the company’s visionary software developers behind the pioneering customer experience analytics (CEA) software and solutions.
The book goes beyond theory and academia to offer a practical guide for aligning software development processes with core business goals. For leaders, the piece serves as a distilled learning guide for managing technical resources, defining team roles, acquiring tools, and delivering world-class enterprise software on time and on budget.

The authors, Bill Holtsnider, Joseph Gee, George Stragand and Tom Wheeler, are all experts on the agile development methodology, and recognize the importance of solid processes in developing successful, profitable products. Full post…

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HBGary and Verdasys announced today an integrated enterprise security solution to proactively detect and rapidly control the most advanced and persistent malware threats, including those used against global organizations for theft of intellectual property, business intelligence, customer records and classified information.

The Verdasys-HBGary solution, available in July 2010, will feature HBGary’s patent-pending core technology, Digital DNA, as part of a fully integrated Advanced Persistent Threat (APT (News – Alert)) module within Verdasys’ Digital Guardian Enterprise Information Protection (EIP) platform.

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Jane Wanderlust’s next travel is only going to involve her lazing around; yet, she wants to purchase adequate travel medical insurance for herself. Why isn’t she off skiing or bungee jumping? The reason is that she’s pregnant—and will be nearly 20 weeks along when she travels.

Many international travel health insurance plans exclude complications arising out of pregnancy from travel medical coverage. In fact, even some airplanes do not allow passengers who are close to their due date to travel on their aircraft.

However, Jane’s travel insurance plan from the Atlas Travel Series offers coverage for complications arising due to pregnancy within the first 26 weeks of gestation. That mean Full post…

American Land Title Association (ALTA), a national trade organization that represents insurance firms in the U.S., has emphasized the importance of insurance policy provided by an American title company to homeowners and investors.

According to ALTA, homeowners who question the costs of title insurance do not fully understand the steps necessary in producing a title policy. The organization has emphasized the need for investors, lenders and homeowners to realize how such a policy can protect them.

The trade association has explained that homeowners can have protection against undeclared liens on their properties when they acquire a title policy. Full post…

You Did Remember Gap Auto Insurance Quotes, Didn’t You?

Tie a string around your finger the next time you go shopping for auto insurance quotes, online or off, and you’ll have no trouble remembering to add gap insurance to the list of things you’re supposed to be looking for. Why? Because gap insurance is designed to make sure that the next time you have an accident you aren’t left scrambling for ways to pay off your current car loan.

When you get right down to it, it’s every lender’s worst nightmare-the moment a driver totals their car and can’t pay off their loan.

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