Ensuring: The FBinsure Blog

Each month, our employees choose a cause as part of our FBcares program.  This March our team is coming to the aid of our friend and fellow employee Jen Thomas. We usually raise money by donating dollars in exchange for wearing jeans to work on the last Friday of the month. However, as our team is remote due to COVID-19 pandemic, we found out Jen likes sea turtles so that was our theme instead of jeans and we encouraged our team to get creative.

Jen is a prominent member of the Middleboro

Businesses across the nation are taking the necessary steps to protect their employees and their customers in uncertain times. One of the most obvious steps is to have people work from home. It is one of the safest steps they can take, but it also expands the opportunities for fraudsters to steal businesses’ confidential data, funds and trade secrets. In their quest to protect their employees and customers and protect company operations cybersecurity may not be first and foremost on their mind.

What are some of the exposures?

Ransomware attacks
Phishing attacks (social

Updated 3/15/2020

To Our Valued Clients,

FBinsure is deeply committed to the health and safety of our employees, clients, and communities.  Like so many, we are adapting to and navigating the situation as best and as quickly as possible.  It is our commitment to you to continue to strive to exceed your expectations despite these trying times.  To that end, we are implementing the following:

As of Monday 3/16/2020, we will be closing our locations in Fall River, Dighton, West Bridgewater, Freetown, and New Bedford – 1823 Acushnet Avenue.  Other locations will

The CDC has advised Americans to take precautions and make preparations to deal with a outbreak of Coronavirus, or COVID-19, in the United States.  While the media hype surrounding the illness can seem overblown, it’s important to not write off the risk this virus poses to Americans’ daily lives.

The Coronavirus Facts As We Know Them:

Symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, runny nose, cough and trouble breathing.
Most people only develop mild symptoms, through there is more significant risk to elderly, young or immunocompromised individuals
The virus spreads in close contact, mainly through respiratory

This month we’ve chosen the Animal Protection Center of Southeastern Massachusetts for our Jeans Day charity.  Being originally from Brockton I have a special place for the APCSM since it’s in my home town and I adopted my now departed cat from there.    The APCSM is located at 1300 W Elm Street Ext. in Brockton, MA.  They are a non-profit organization founded in 2009 that serves the communities and pets of southeastern Massachusetts.

The adoption center provides care and housing for homeless and surrendered dogs, cats, rabbits and other small pets. 

As of February 23, 2020 hands-free driving is the law in Massachusetts!

The new law prohibits drivers of motor vehicles from using any electronic device, including mobile telephones, unless the device is used in hands-free mode. Distracted driving has sky-rocketed as an issue since the adoption of cellphones in everyday life and many states have instituted similar laws to curb the problem. In the United States, approximately 9 people are killed and more than 1,000 injured each day in accidents that are reported to involve a distracted driver. Did you know

Insurance legislation varies state by state. In Massachusetts, insurance is mandatory and you cannot legally drive your car without it. Rates in Massachusetts, however, vary immensely from one insurance company to another.

An Insurance Agent Works for You

This is why it’s beneficial to work with an agency. At FBinsure, we represent over 20 different insurance companies for home and personal auto, and, we will do the “shopping” for you. We will ask you questions to be sure you are getting the best value on your policy with proper coverages and all

January’s Jeans’ Day: Australia’s Bushfire Victims

This month our cause is a bit less local than the charities typically chosen in our communities, but as life is more connected than ever on our little blue marble, many of us are thinking of the suffering felt by the folks in Australia. Since September deadly bushfires have been burning throughout Australia, spurred on by several years of drought and high temperatures. With both humans and nature reeling from this tragedy, we are splitting our donations this month between the Australian Red Cross,

MLK Day. A Day On.

This Martin Luther King Jr. Day marks the 25th anniversary of the holiday.  Increasingly, MLK Day is becoming known as “a day on, not a day off,”  designated as a national day of service to encourage volunteering in and improving our local communities. Here are 25 ways you can strengthen communities

Check on an elderly neighbor
Donate your business clothes through www.dressforsuccess.org
Donate food to a fire station
Volunteer at a Boys & Girls Club
Become a Big Brother or Big Sister through www.bbbs.org
Volunteer at a Senior Living Community
Donate food to

Keeping Up with Rising Costs

When was the last time you went shopping for a car? The trends for car prices are obvious: up, up, and away they go. Vehicle prices are not the only things skyrocketing. The cost of construction, goods and services, etc. are all steadily increasing year after year. You may be asking yourself how these rising prices relate to auto insurance, and the answer is surprisingly simple: your Property Damage coverage.

What Does Property Damage Coverage

The most overlooked line of an automobile policy is Property Damage coverage, which