This week is National Protect Your Identity Week, sponsored by the Better Business Bureau and National Foundation for Credit Counseling. Identity theft prevention and resolution is something we live with every day here at Europ Assistance USA while protecting and assisting some of the 10 million Americans victimized each year. We provide ongoing protection to our customers and help them straighten out any damages that occur if they do fall prey to one of the fastest growing crimes around. All this week, we’ve been highlighting a different kind of ... Read More

This week is National Protect Your Identity Week, sponsored by the Better Business Bureau and National Foundation for Credit Counseling. Identity theft prevention and resolution is something we live with every day here at Europ Assistance USA while protecting and assisting some of the 10 million Americans victimized each year. We provide ongoing protection to our customers and help them straighten out any damages that occur if they do fall prey to one of the fastest growing crimes around. All this week, we’ve been highlighting a different kind of ... Read More

Yesterday marked the beginning of National Protect Your Identity Week, sponsored by the Better Business Bureau and National Foundation for Credit Counseling. Identity theft prevention and resolution is something we live with every day here at Europ Assistance USA while protecting and assisting some of the 10 million Americans victimized each year. We provide ongoing protection to our customers and help them straighten out any damages that occur if they do fall prey to one of the fastest growing crimes around. All this week, we’ll highlight a different ... Read More

Yesterday marked the beginning of National Protect Your Identity Week, sponsored by the Better Business Bureau and National Foundation for Credit Counseling. The BBB, NFCC and coalition members will host hundreds of free identity theft protection educational and shredding events in communities across the nation and many will feature professional speakers and experts on ID theft prevention and recovery. Find more information by visiting the NFCC’s web site, where you can even take a quiz to see how at-risk you may be. Identity theft prevention and ... Read More

Service Offers Customers Extra Protection and Dealers Recurring Revenue Opportunity Micro Key Solutions, a leading provider of world-class software solutions for the security alarm industry, and Europ Assistance USA (EA USA), provider of immediate support and assistance to individuals in times of emergency and distress, announced the companies will provide EA USA’s comprehensive identity theft protection product to Micro Key’s Millennium Series™ users. According to a study conducted this year by Javelin Strategy & Research, identity theft ... Read More

Our parent company, the Europ Assistance Group, shared this week the results of its 4th annual survey on the perception of healthcare across 7 different countries – with the US included for the first time. Given recent developments around healthcare reform in the US, this survey is interesting in that it compares how Americans see healthcare compared to Europeans. The overall takeaway from the survey is that Americans and Europeans alike have more confidence in the quality of their healthcare systems than in how they are organized. Both groups are ... Read More

High schools and universities will open their doors again in the coming weeks. Today’s students are savvier than ever, but still one of the most targeted groups for identity theft. According to Javelin Strategy & Research, 18-24 year olds are at greater risk for identity theft because they take longer to detect fraud – an average of 132 days versus 49 days for those in older age groups. Young adults also tend to have little-to-no credit history, making it easier to create bogus accounts. Most generally-published identity theft prevention tips ... Read More

Travelers can be a ripe target for identity thieves. When traveling, we provide others with access to our personal and financial more often than in our typical daily interactions: your personal affects are out of your control for long periods during flights, you are taking your identification (and your purse/wallet) out often during airport security check-ins, using your credit card in unfamiliar locales (hotels, restaurants, car rental places, etc.), potentially visiting unfamiliar ATMs, accessing the Internet from unknown locations and are ... Read More

This week has been marked by some very big news stories about social media and the privacy issues related to the ever-increasing amounts of information available about each of us that is posted online through social media. As Facebook announced that it reached 500 million customers – yes, that’s right, half a billion people around the world, making Facebook larger than every country in the world except two – it’s clear that social media is no longer a phenomenon but a way of life for many people. The new normal — like having a cell ... Read More

Another post in our series on EA USA’s Haiti earthquake assistance efforts from our team on the ground in the Dominican Republic. Following is an account from Christina Graves, an EA USA Logistics Coordinator. With a whirlwind of activity, I arrived at Reagan National Airport early Sunday morning. The final decision to send my team to the Dominican Republic and assist in processing an undisclosed number of our American clients into the US after their evacuation from the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake had been made quickly and created the expected ... Read More