Goodlad & Swank Insurance Blog

My wife always gives me the business about how, when I speak with my old buddies, we mercilessly make fun of each other. It’s 100%...

Over the past six months or so, I’ve spoken to people out and about or here in the office, and the recurring is this –...

I’ve been thinking about the meaning of a lot of words lately. Patrick Henry said six amazing words that until pretty recently, to me at...

I believe the home insurance market is healing. In 2020, when it became apparent that the home insurance market was in dire trouble, our agency...

There’s a saying I’ve always found interesting: Nature hates a vacuum. In essence, it means if something was in a place and now isn’t, something...

My nickname is Butch. I much prefer that to my real name, Ralph, but like most things in life, there’s a tradeoff. When I was...

I had a conversation with my son right after dinner because when we were done, he’d promptly gone outside to the redneck fridge and grabbed...

I imagine you’ve heard of Occam’s Razor (not a typo, hang in there with me), but if not, here goes: “The simplest explanation is usually...

I received the information below from John Talmage, head of the Lee County Economic Development office. Our Southwest Florida Business Alliance had a luncheon recently,...

If someone asks where you live and they’re not very familiar with Florida, you say Fort Myers, right? Mentioning places like Bonita, Estero, or Lehigh...

I was at the doctor’s and was being prepped for a little procedure. While being stabbed with needles filled with anesthetics, the nurse and I...

If you pay attention when driving around town, you will notice a lot of differences when you’re on the West side of I-75 versus when...