Dear friends and future friends of Advocate Brokerage: Welcome to our new blog. We hope in the coming months and years you’ll visit frequently to catch up on some local news, learn things about your insurance coverage and policies, get some pointers on securing your home and family against disasters, and find help for your insurance needs. For more than...

Here at Advocate Brokerage on Veterans Day we'd like to honor, thank, and applaud the men and women who courageously and selflessly serve our country. Thank you for protecting us, inspiring us, and making us proud to be Americans!

 Beautiful cars lined the streets on a glorious fall day at the 10th annual Scarsdale auto show. A good time was had by all as Advocate Brokerage and Chubb again teamed up to sponsor the Scarsdale Concours d'Elegance, a show that has been giving to worthy charities for years now. This year the proceeds went towards the White Plains Hospital,...

This winter is already shaping up to be quite a cold one. With a record-breaking snowstorm slamming South Dakota in early October and freezing temperatures all across the Midwest, predictions that the 2013-2014 winter season will be a doozy are looking right on target. You and yours should be prepared for heavy snows and chilly temperatures, and here at Advocate...

The first year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy gives us time to reflect what we learned from this unprecedented event.  In our 45 years as insurance brokers in Westchester County, we never encountered a situation where so many people were not merely inconvenienced, but had parts of their lives destroyed. Trees toppling onto homes, excessive flooding, the destruction of cars and...

Here at Advocate, we’ve been looking forward to the Halloween season for a long time—anything involving candy is A-OK with us! But we’re still mindful that Halloween can draw out some very real spooks – and believe it or not, lots of auto thieves.We’d like to share with you some tips to help protect you and yours from “evil spirits”...

By Glenn Binday Halloween is a night to explore the spooky, haunted side of life, but for some families, the terror is all too real. Real tragedies serve as a cautionary tale for parents and remind us all to be constantly vigilant.With more people on the streets than usual, often in non-reflective, dark clothing, trick-or-treating can increase the danger for...

A recent article in the New York Times “When Having a Nanny Cam Isn’t Enough” points out that individuals need to protect themselves from lawsuits involving household help. In an increasing litigious society, everyone who hires someone directly, rather than using a gardening company, for example, where employees would be considered independent contractors, needs to have insurance that protects them from...

If you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend look no further! Rev up your engines and get ready for the 10th annual Scarsdale Concours d’Elegance vintage auto show.Coming off of the huge success of the SoWe Food and Wine Festival last month, Advocate Brokerage is proudly co-sponsoring this event with the help of CHUBB Collector Car Insurance.Scarsdale’s Concours...

As a Commercial Lines Account Executive with Advocate Brokerage, Toniann Bonvino handles almost every aspect of her accounts – from customer service, to marketing, to ensuring that the painstaking details of filling out paperwork are accomplished quickly and accurately. The paperwork, actually, is an aspect that Toniann enjoys immensely: “You can just focus in on the job at hand,” while...