Cyber Virus Electronic Theft is Growing Exponentially! With the explosion of social media, video games, wireless security systems, and internet capable automobiles, we are witnessing an alarming increase in cyber-attacks on individuals. In the basic sense, this is having your personal electronic information hacked, exposing credit card information and your bank accounts to thieves. "cyber [...] Read More

Is it a Sign of the Times? Is Covid the reason for an Increase in Auto thefts? It was announced by the Greenwich, CT police department that there have been 104 vehicle thefts in town since 1/1/2020. If we had the real data it would be of interest to know if there is a certain [...] Read More

Audit Your Protections What are the tools you can or should have to be well protected? It is common today if you own a home, and especially a vacation or secondary property to have some type of alarm system to provide protections against the potential exposures that ownership comes with. Periodically it makes sense to [...] Read More

Future Personal Insurance Premiums Largely In Your Hands It is no surprise that insurance premiums will continue to escalate for your home and cars. Natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes continue to hit with scary intensity. Automobile accident frequency hasn’t changed but the manner in which cars are built, like a jigsaw puzzle, with heavy [...] Read More

Corona Virus Alert Button down your Possessions! As the grind of wearing masks and quarantining due to Covid-19 continues, we are seeing a significant uptick in passive theft. Whether the increase is driven by increased unemployment due to the Corona virus, or simply having your guard down, it is time to button down to avoid [...] Read More

Building on Home Schooling Covid Virus Reactions At Shepard Insurance Group we have been fielding calls from parents, facing the decision on whether or not to send their young children back to school, with concerns about the virus, who are now considering banding together with other age equivalent student parents to investigate home schooling. "Being [...] Read More