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Advice on Life Insurance and Financial Planning (This has some really nice material.)
Advice on Automobiles, Motorcycles, and related Insurance issues
Advice on Other Insurance Issues (Also worth perusing.)
Standard & Poor's: insurance company ratings

Advice on Life Insurance and Financial Planning:

Carroll Insurance: Specializing in Risk Management and Asset Protection
Indiana Farm Bureau: We are a multi line company that services the state of Indiana. We carry auto, home, life, business as well as many specialty markets.
InsWeb: A Better Way to Shop for Insurance - InsWeb is a free service which lets you shop for all your insurance needs conveniently and securely without sales pressure.
Courtemanche & Associates: Insurance and financial services. Complete retirement plans/planning, life insurance, pension plans, longterm care ins, annuities and more.
Viatical Settlements Consumer Advocacy Info: Products: books, information, consultation, seminars
INN Life Insurance: This has general advice about life insurance, also from Insurance News Network.
"A discussion of the types of life insurance needed at various stages of life": from Financial World, Volume 151, from The Equity Financial Group
Life Insurance Needs: from Mutual Insurance of New York
Life Insurance Terms Glossary: from QuickQuote
Another Glossary: of Insurance and Financial Planning Terms
Informative Article on Life Insurance: from Susman Insurance Services, Inc.
ITT Hartford's Estate Tax Calculator: If your browser supports forms, you can use this handy calculator from Harford for calculating estate tax.
Debt Free: Shows you why and how to get completely out of debt. Good material.
Article on five kinds of trusts: from Money Magazine, March 1995, from The Equity Financial Group
A free living will: from The Equity Financial Group
"Annuities: What's In 'Em for You?": by Jeff Gostnett and Joan Goldwasser, in "Changing Times", Volume 44, Number 2, from The Equity Financial Group
"Making Up For Lost Time,": by Adriane Berg, host of the "Money Show" on WBC Radio, March 1994, from The Equity Financial Group
Primerica Financial Services - Auto Insurance: Provider of an array of products including phone issued auto/home insurance. Our program's centerpiece is the complimentary Financial Needs Analysis (FNA). Member Citigroup.
InsWeb Corporation: Life, health and other personal lines insurance as well as calculators, tools and information to help you get the right insurance.
Hamish Redmond - Ibits provides WEB based Insurance Agency Management Systems

Advice on Automobiles, Motorcycles, and related Insurance issues

INN Auto Insurance: This has general advice about auto insurance, from Insurance News Network.
How safe is your car?: Safety Information on different types of automobiles from the Highway Loss Data Institute

Advice on other insurance issues:

California's One-Stop Health Insurance Web Site: We offer, at no cost, benefit analysis and premium comparison for individuals, families and employer groups.
Commercial Union Consumers' Forum: A forum devoted to consumer rights, corporate governance and ethics in the insurance industry
Advice & Counsel: FreeAdvice was votred as the most extremely useful law site for consumers in 1998's USA Today Poll. It has top flight, easy to understand information about insurance law and 100 other legal topics, available for free. It also has links to lawyers, most of whom provide a free initial consultation.
"What Should Be Done Now That Health System Reform Is Dead": by Robert Blendon, Mollyann Brodie & John Benson, from the Journal of the American Medical Association, from The Equity Financial Group
"Getting What You Need in Disability Insurance": by Janet Bennett Clark, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, Volume 47, Number 2, from The Equity Financial Group
"Personal Finance: Take a Hard Look at Your Disability Insurance Needs": Los Angeles Times Syndicate, from the Equity Financial Group
INN Home Insurance: This has general advice about home insurance, also from Insurance News Network.
Insurance Online: Gives some insurance questions and answers.
MGIC Library: Has a "Home Buyer's Checklist," and a "Mortgage Insurance 101" document.
More Information: Discussion Forums, News, Information, and Insurance Organizations
Free S&P Insurance Ratings: Standard & Poor's gives individuals access to Financial Strength ratings from around the world.
Insurance Partners, Inc.: Automobile, Homeowners, Business, Annuities, Life, Group Hospital Insurance, Contractors, Long Term Care, Senior Advisors Services
EF Moody Financial Planner: Largest(1,000+ pages and 660+ links) and most comprehensive financial planning site on the internet designed for consumer knowledge and protection
A-Z Plumbing Inc.: They offer a wide variety of specialty services for the home owner. Electronic leak detection, and video inspections just to mention a few.
Laurens Insurance Service: Serving the upstate of South Carolina for more than 50 years with personal and commercial insurance and risk managment services