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Australian Health Insurance

It sounds to me like it's time for some sort of wiki-based health insurance comparison service. As someone who has recently been insured in Australia and the US though, I should point out the Australian system is way less confusing than ...

Delaware Insurance News: Annuity Lead Company Banned From Delaware

Essentially the company was trying to filter callers to insurance agents who would attempt to sell them an annuity. Not only is it a convoluted way to make an annuity sale it窶冱 also very deceptive. Anytime you receive a postcard or ...

What is Title Insurance and why do I need it?

Title insurance is used to protect both lenders and property owners from losses due to these defects.Protecting the interests of lenders and property owners is done in two parts. Loan Policies protect the lender's interest in a property ...

Conseco Insurance Scandal Follows Movie Plot

As I read the front page story in today's New York Times on insurance companies that deny, deny, deny -- waiting for the policy holder to either give up or die -- I was reminded of a movie. The NYT focuses primarily on insurance giant ...

Health Insurance News: Coalition To Advance Health Care Reform ...

A new and soon to be reckoned with coalition has been formed for the express intent of gaining support for health-care reform in the form of mandated health insurance. The coalition is unique in that it comprises “36 major companies” ...

A Look at Pet Health Insurance

As a rule I窶冦a big fan of pet insurance. I窶况e seen far too many pets who did not receive proper care or were euthanized simply because their owners didn窶冲 have the financial means or weren窶冲 willing to pay to give them the care they ...

Reaping the Whirlwind: Mississippi's Insurance Problem is Everybody's

More than 18 months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the state of Mississippi finds itself in a legal battle over homeowners' insurance that may take longer to clean up than the hurricane debris. ...

Insurance Articles

Take auto insurance for instance, they have articles that talk about buying auto insurance online, protecting yourself with insurance as well as articles on insurance for women and teens. They aren't just about auto insurance though and ...

Travel insurance...

When we're about to go on holiday, a large proportion of us accept the insurance offered to us by the travel agent rather than shopping around, and automatically assume that it is going to cover us in almost every eventuality - even ...

Cut Homeowner's Insurance

Ten Ways To Cut Your Homeowner's Insurance Premiums.

Smartphone Insurance: Worth it?

I called Asurion and it took me half an hour on the phone with a computer and voice prompts and a customer service person to process my insurance claim. They promised either a refurb or a new i730 with next day delivery. ...

Mandatory Health Insurance

In April 2006, MA Governor Mitt Romney signed into law a broad new program requiring all citizens to obtain health insurance. The state legislatures both strongly approved this landmark legislation on a bipartisan basis. ...

Becker on Health Insurance, by Arnold Kling

Long-term health insurance with individual plans is uncommon mainly because health insurance companies cannot force customers to make a long-term commitment. If a person has experienced good health, he may seek a cheaper plan with ...

Should you buy travel insurance from an Agent?

There has been some 'research' released by InsureandGo that claims travel agencies are ripping consumers off with travel insurance policies up to 91.8% more for a single trip than when purchased online from the top 25% most competitive ...

Finding car insurance online

The easiest way to find reliable car insurance is to do some adequate research online. There are dozens of car insurance providers and each of them offer specific benefits that the other doesn窶冲. I would suggest visiting several car ...

Global Warming: Should Insurance Companies Worry?

If anyone is still wondering whether global warming is a serious threat, this news should erase all doubt: the federal government is telling insurance companies that they should be worried...

Insurance a business-breaker

For most business owners, who are insured through a state pool, wind insurance rates are now about 2遜 times what they paid before Katrina. With commercial rates already much higher than residential rates for similar structures (because ...

Southern Oak grows through insurance storm

In the past two years, property insurance companies have bailed out of the state faster than rats off a sinking ship. Saddled with multimillion-dollar losses following stormy 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, several companies ...

Private Mortgage Insurance News: PMI Makes Leaps & Bounds

As the housing market has slowed down a bit many people are turning back to purchasing private mortgage insurance (PMI). A large chunk of people obtaining mortgages over the past few years have opted for adjustable-rate mortgages or ...

Travel insurance for the technologically savvy?

I've looked at some of the previous travel insurance threads on here, and while there was some OK links in there, I couldn't find anything that would help with my particular situation. Now, here's the real kicker - does it make sense to ...

Home-Based Business Insurance

An explanation of the different types of business insurance a home-based business may needs, such as professional liability insurance, product liability insurance, and errors and omissions insurance.

Leave College, Get Health Insurance

Do you expect to get a job in a few months with health insurance? Look at short-term plans that cover only serious medical problems. You can afford to put off a yearly checkup for a little while. If you expect to be without employer ...

Matthew Yglesias on Health Insurance Externalities

"I can't ever let my health insurance expire, or I'm not sure I'll ever be able to get it again." That's what a friend remarked to me last night, not in the midst of a conversation about health care policy, but just talking about life. ...

In the Hands of the State-Insurance Complex

Robert Klassen resists.

Report Finds Fault With Health Insurance

High deductibles, co-payments could leave many in financial bind, authors say.

Top 5 Ways To Save on Car Insurance

Apply for quotes from multiple insurance providers to get a good estimate of what your monthly premium will cost. AutoExtra.com has partnered with several insurance providers that offer free quotes with competitive prices. ...

The tax break for employer-provided health insurance?

The tax break for employer-provided insurance is, more or less, thirty percent. Therefore the cost burdens of employer-supplied health care should not exceed that same thirty percent. Have you noticed that current problems come in the ...

Hillary and the Insurance Companies

HILLARY AND THE INSURANCE COMPANIES....Hillary Clinton hasn't yet released details of her universal healthcare plan, but Karen Tumulty reports this line from the healthcare debate in Las Vegas last week:Clinton warned that her plan will ...

Insurance Blog Watch: What Should Be Done About Stolen Computers ...

The Insurance Tech Guru blog by Ara Trembley recently posted on an article in Computer World (CW) about a stolen laptop ���holding personal and financial information on 10000 UK National Health Services staffers.��� ...

Life Insurance

With this amazing life insurance theyll love you even more when youre no longer here.

Who Else Wants Cheaper Auto Insurance?

Paying for auto insurance sucks, but it窶冱 something we all have to have. If you窶决e looking for a cheaper auto insurance rate, you窶冤l need to do your homework and find out which insurance carriers provide the best discounts. ...

Insurance companies planning for climate change

Insurance companies are usually very prudent when it comes to risk assessment. Many people would consider their opinions and predictions to be "trustworthy". If they say that climate change is occurring, then I would be inclined to ...

Health Insurance

Health Insurance is a hot search on Dogpile right now!

Health Insurance Works, Trusting Its Detractors Doesn't

By way of diminishing the reader's assumptions that access to health insurance is important, Cannon and Tanner write, "[y]ou may think it is self-evident that the uninsured may forgo preventive care or receive a lower quality of care. ...

The Homeowners Insurance Adventure Continues

We have also seen policies that offer 'actual cash value' coverage on the structure itself, which takes depreciation based on age, as opposed to a 'regular' homeowners insurance policy which insured at replacement cost. ...

The Future of Health Insurance

As policy-makers have looked at the economic forecasts for old-age health care in the past few decades, they have increasingly used tax incentives and other spurs to encourage middle-aged and older Americans to buy such insurance. ...

Traditional Medicare vs. Private Health Insurance

Medicare program, one of the most successful social health insurance programs in USA, is in danger of being destroyed. Blame lays in large part with the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA).

Tennessee Insurance company denies life insurance policy

This week I finished a case where an insurance company had refused to pay the benefits owed under a life insurance policy. Basically my clients' young son lost his life in car wreck. To help pay for the medical and funeral expenses my ...

Health insurance is expensive...IF you can get it at all

And then, of course, there's always a good chance you'll eventually get laid off and have to find new insurance or choose expensive COBRA. And if you choose self-employment ... well, prepare yourself. Blue Shield has notified the group ...

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