Shares of insurance giant The Allstate Corporation (ALL) are trading sharply lower in after hours trading after the company reported weaker than expected Q4 results this afternoon.

Going into this afternoon's earnings report, analysts had been expecting to see the company report earnings of $0.88, but actual results came in much lower than expected at just $0.55 per share.

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Allstate Sells Off on Weak Q4 Results originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Being from L.A., I've had to deal with earthquakes and fire (no, it's not always sunshine here). And, of course, I saw the devastation of the recent fires.

But what about some of the businesses that need to rebuild? Could they have prepared for the fires?

Well, I recently interviewed Jon Toigo, a disaster recovery expert at Toigo Partners International. Over the past 20 years, he has put together nearly 100 disaster recovery plans. His clients include Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ). Also, Toigo has a partnership with Office Depot to help businesses deal with disaster preparedness.

"The bottom line in disaster preparedness is to protect your most irreplaceable assets - your people and your data," said Toigo.

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Entrepreneur's Journal: Saving your business from disaster originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.