No Brainer

No Brainer

At ERIE, we want to make your life easy. Let’s face it, you have better things to do than spend your time worrying about your insurance coverage. So let us help.

One of the easiest ways to help us help you is to bundle your coverage with us. When you’re in a car accident or your home’s electrical system was fried by lightning, you don’t want to be hunting through your phone for numbers and struggling to remember who your Agent is. Let us be your trusted advocate in the insurance world. Then you only have to remember one number when disaster strikes and then know that it’s all taken care of.

Besides being convenient, bundling your auto and homeowner’s insurance can be incredibly cost-effective. Get the same great coverage you’ve come to expect from ERIE, but for a lower price. Convenient and affordable? Bundling’s a no-brainer when it comes to your insurance.

Renting your home during the 2012 DNC?

2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina

Some Charlotte residents will be renting all or part of their residence during the upcoming Democratic National Convention (DNC).

Most Homeowners policies are not voided by the temporary occasional rental of the insured residence. However, theft coverage for the insured's property may be limited or excluded while the home is temporarily rented.

We recommend reviewing the Homeowners coverage with your Agent to review any coverage limitations and to ensure home and personal property coverage limits are adequate to replace that property, as well as to help ensure liability coverage are at appropriate limits.

Have Your Cake (and eat it, too)

Have Your Cake (and eat it, too)

Nothing beats the personal touch. We all love it when someone asks how our kids are, or remembers that we just took a vacation to Florida. It makes us feel special when someone cares enough to treat us as an actual person with a family and a life, rather than just another anonymous number in a huge machine.

That’s where your personal agent comes in. We’re the people you see at the grocery store, or who you bump into on the sidewalk. And we genuinely want to know how the kids are doing, what you did on your vacation, and that your house repairs went off without a hitch. We want to know that you’re happy, and all is well.

But there are some advantages to having a big company behind you, too. Erie Insurance is a financially stable Fortune 500 company with more than four million policies in force. There’s strength in numbers.

With us, you get the best of both worlds. You get the hands-on interaction with an ERIE agent who knows your name, your policy, and your situation. And you get the comfort of knowing that standing behind every ERIE agent is a company that has the resources you need.

Isn’t it great to have your cake and eat it too?

New Homeowner Checklist

New Homeowner Checklist

Buying a house is a big decision and can definitely change your life. You get the advantages of living in a place that’s all your own, but there are so many new responsibilities that fall on your plate: mowing the lawn, painting the house, taking care of that washing machine yourself when it starts spraying water, rather than calling a super or a landlord. These new responsibilities often wind up leading to big new bills.

Make sure to take care of one important task when you buy a new home: change your auto insurance. Sounds strange, right? But many people don’t like to go to the hassle of changing their car insurance when they buy home insurance. Turns out, it’s not a hassle at all, and bundling your ERIE auto and home policies can save you big money.

Give us a call today to find out how easy it is to switch your insurance, and save that cash for your new house.

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Web Attacks on the Rise!

According to a large security software maker, targeted cyber attacks are a growing threat to employers around the world. The prediction was made after the Stuxnet worm hit Iran's nuclear program in 2010. According to one expert with the company, we will see many more high-profile targeted attacks in the future.

Most consumers avoid suspicious links in spam email. However, targeted attacks are more and more successful because people tend to open files that look like they are from legitimate senders.

The total number of web-based attacks increased 93 percent in 2010 from 2009. Shortened Internet addresses or URLs increased exposure. Abbreviated URLs cut down long website links and make it difficult to see which website one of these shortened links takes people to. Cyber criminals can hide malicious sites more easily using the shortened links. Social networking sites are a growing platform for attackers. Hackers posted millions of shortened links on social networking sites last year to trick users into malware and phishing attacks.

Attacks on leading mobile platforms also increased 42 percent last year with predicted increases in the future. Tarmo Virki, European Technology Correspondent "Targeted cyber attacks to rise further: Symantec," www.reuters.com (Apr. 5, 2011.)

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