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Jan13

Curb Your Teen’s Driving Risks During Teen Driving Awareness Month!

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This month, prepare your teen for safe driving and lower your car insurance in Orange County, CA.

January is nationally known as Teen Driving Awareness Month! While your teenager may not like it, it’s time to go over some safe driving habits to ensure that they’re kept safe behind the wheel. Ensuring the safety of yourself, your child, your passengers, and other drivers is essential before heading out on roads and highways and can help you save on your car insurance in Orange County, CA.

Driving teenagers are known for all sorts of bad habits on the road. From distracted driving to drunk driving to careless driving, teens have done it all. Between easy access to their smartphones and never missing a text with their smart watch, technology is prevalent among teenagers these days. The problem is that motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teens in the U.S. With this information at hand, review these tips with your teen today to transform your teenager into a top, safe driver!

  • Always a seat belt.
  • Never text or call while driving.
  • If tempted to use the phone, place it in the trunk or well out of reach throughout the entire car journey!
  • Check and adjust the mirrors each time you drive.
  • Drive alone when possible to reduce the risk of distracting passengers and the temptation to show off.
  • Never drive when intoxicated or under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • Reduce distractions (phones, people, the radio, the air conditioning, GPS directions).
  • Avoid driving during high-risk hours (late at night, rush hour).
  • Drive at or below the speed limit.
  • Set your GPS and radio before starting the car!

Whether your teen has just started driving or has been on the road for years, the prospect of your child driving is scary enough without them adding danger to their lives by picking up their phone or being drunk!

Secure your teen drivers and yourself with protection on and off the roads with quality car insurance in Orange County, CA. Contact Bisson Insurance Services and our expert insurance professionals will find you a policy that protects you, your teen, your vehicle, and finances for every bump in the road!

Jan01

New Year’s Day: Clean Cran-Quinoa Salad Recipe!

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Enjoy this healthy recipe to kick off the New Year!

Whether you’re bouncing off the walls this morning or feeling a liiittle worse for wear, you made it into 2016! After the over-indulgences from stodgy Christmas dinner, celebratory drinks, and late nights partying, you may be in need of a little TLC, vitamins, and nutrients.

Luckily, this healthy and clean New Year’s Day recipe does just that! Feel revitalized and restored from this Cran-Quinoa salad!

 Ingredients:

Salad:

  • 1 cup uncooked quinoa
    1/4 cup dried cranberries
    2 scallions, finely chopped
    2 cups mixed greens such as spinach and arugula

Dressing:

  • 1/4 cup cashews
    1/8 cup pine nuts
    2 tsp miso paste
    1/4 tsp agave nectar
    1/2 cup water
    3 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
    2 cloves garlic, minced
    1 Tbsp lemon zest
    1/4 tsp crushed red pepper
    1/4 tsp sea salt
    1/4 tsp black pepper

Ingredients:

  1. Cook quinoa according to package instructions.
  2. While quinoa cooks, combine all dressing ingredients in a blender; process until smooth. Add water if dressing is too thick.
  3. In a large serving bowl, combine cooked quinoa, dried cranberries, scallions and mixed greens; gently toss with Caesar dressing to coat. Serve chilled.

From all of us at Bisson Insurance Agency – Happy New Year! Make 2016 your best one yet by securing quality insurance services. Contact us in Yorba Linda, California for all of your insurance needs!

Dec30

Give Back During the Season of Giving!

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Impact your local community in Yorba Linda, CA through volunteering.

By now, you may be feeling full of food, having indulged in drinks, and amounted your presents up. While the gift-giving day was only a couple of days ago, the season of kindness and generosity needn’t end at midnight on December 25th. After a wonderful day among family, friends, and good food, spare a thought to those in your local community who need your help more than ever.

In the season of giving, give back to those in need:

Help The Homeless
At a time when warm homes and family gatherings are common, the homeless are left isolated. The National Coalition for the Homeless offers a number of ways for volunteers to combat homelessness by serving food at shelters, building homes, or offering job training. Get involved this year!

Deliver a Meal
Share a meal with a lonely person in need this holiday season. Sign up for Meals on Wheels’ food-delivery program!

Visit a Senior
More than 50 percent of senior citizens in nursing homes never receive visitors. Why not bring a sense of family to those who don’t have their loved ones by them? Volunteer at one of these locations.

MyTwoFrontTeeth.org
This organization helps you to figure out what to donate by accepting requests from charities, preschools, and day care centers. Find out how to get involved here!

Volunteer at an Animal Shelter
Don’t forget about our furry four-legged friends this season! Adopt a pet from a local shelter if you can offer them a loving home and a loyal family. Otherwise, volunteer at the shelter to help the incredible staff that take in stray and abandoned animals.

The Yorba Linda community, there are plenty of opportunities to gift those less fortunate with presents that you haven’t opened yet, or feed families with leftovers. Find out how you can get involved here.

From Bisson Insurance Services, we hope that you volunteer and donate your time and love in this season and beyond! So that you can focus on helping others, contact us for all of your Yorba Linda, Orange County, and Inland Empire insurance needs.

Dec28

Enter the New Year Without a Hitch!

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A holiday DUI will increase the cost of your auto insurance in Yorba Linda, CA!

2016 is almost here! Many have plans for exciting New Year’s Eve parties, to host festivities, or to relax with friends. New Year’s Eve is notorious for celebrations, parties, and one (or a few) drinks! To finish off the year in style, keep safety in the forefront of your mind, whatever your plans may be!

So that you wake up in 2016 without regret or facing an unwelcome lawsuit, follow these:

  • Organize Transport: Never drink and drive! If you’re going to be drinking, secure a designated driver or aim to book a taxi or request a rideshare with people that you know. Do this organizing before the party so that you aren’t left stranded or getting behind the wheel drunk.
  • Safety in Numbers: Everything is better with friends anyway! Whether it’s just walking from your car into the party or driving to the destination, try to travel in a group!
  • Fuel Up: Never drink alcohol on an empty stomach! Not only is this risky, but it can mean that you snack on candy or appetizers at the party.
  • Drinking: If you’re going to drink, be responsible! Keep an eye on your friends in case they drink too much and suffer from alcohol poisoning.
  • Have fun!

However you ring in the new year, whether you’re staying in with friends, working, or enjoying an elite party, safety should never be forgotten. After all, the Emergency Room is not the best way to ring in 2016!

Before the celebrations kick off, organize your evening and review your California insurance coverages. If a DUI does occur on this night, visit Bisson Insurance Services for your DUI insurance in Yorba Linda, CA and surrounding areas. Serving California with quality insurance to suit their needs and budget, call us today!

Dec18

Protecting Your Possessions During the Holidays

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Use these crime prevention tips and quality home insurance in Yorba Linda, CA.

‘Tis the season to be jolly, give gifts, and unfortunately, for crime! Theft peaks around Christmas time when expensive presents are being bought and given. Christmas eve, in particular, is a day when theft is at its highest.

Due to many people working Christmas eve or leaving their home to see family, presents from under the tree are taken easily and by the masses.

This year, protect your presents from being stolen (and avoid turning up empty-handed to your friends and families’) by using these crime prevention tips:

Out and about:

  • When parking your vehicle to go shopping, aim to leave your car in a well-lit and well-travelled area.
  • Have your keys in hand when approaching your vehicle so that you don’t have to stop and search for your keys at your car.
  • When storing items purchased at the stores, place them out of sight.
  • When storing valuables, put them in your car before parking. If someone sees you move a laptop bag and several goodies from Best Buy into your trunk, then lock your car and leave, they may be tempted to take them!

Securing your home:

  • Place the Christmas tree out of the window. Presents that are seen from the street appear inviting to thieves.
  • Never ‘hide’ your key in your front porch. You’re not fooling anyone by putting your key underneath that plant pot. It’s as good as handing a thief a key to your home!
  • Only leave your spare house key with a friend, relative, or neighbor that you trust!
  • If you’re out for the day or week, set the lights to turn on automatically. From the street, if the lights are on, usually someone is home to turn them on.
  • Check (and double check) that you locked all doors and windows before leaving the house.

Be sure to secure your home with the reliable home insurance that it deserves over the Christmas period. For home insurance in Yorba Linda, CA, contact Bisson Insurance Services! We serve Placentia, Orange County, the Inland Empire, and the surrounding areas in California!