Alarm Customer Loses Insurance Claim Because No Automatic Fire Alarm in Service

Alarm customer [a restaurant in California] sued its insurance carrier to pay for a fire loss. The carrier refused to pay because the insurance policy included “a “Protective Safeguards” endorsement conditioning coverage for fire damage on Mama K’s maintaining an automatic fire alarm protecting the entire building.”

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ONVIF, Security Industry Association Host Joint Webinar to Discuss “State of Standards”

ONVIF, the leading global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, and the Security Industry Association (SIA), the leading association for global security solution providers, will jointly host “The State of the Standards,” a webinar.

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New Study: Communities Find Success with Model Alarm Ordinance

Most Alarms Protect Life and Property but Generate No Calls for Service  A new study by a professor at the UNC-Charlotte, Criminal Justice & Criminology Department shows that most electronic security systems in the communities studied protect life and property without generating calls for police services. The study examined four communities that had adopted the

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When Should You Terminate Monitoring Service for Delinquent Account In Collection?

By: Ken Kirschenbaum, NYSESA Legal Counsel Question: Ken, we turned an account over to K&K for collection and the case is proceeding. When we turned it over you suggested that we continue the central station monitoring. I have since reviewed the central station account information activity reports and it appears AC power was dropped from

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Parks Associates Releases False Alarm Whitepaper

New whitepaper developed in partnership with Essence addresses security system innovations enabled by smart home connectivity A new Parks Associates whitepaper reports that home security consumers are looking for solutions to reduce false alarms as well as improve responses to triggering events like home burglaries, while new solutions are emerging for device manufacturers to address

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