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Title Insurance Policy

Title insurance policies as they pertain to real estate: owners and lenders title policies, terms of coverage, liability and protection. Title commitments and preliminary title reports prior to issuance of title insurance policies.

Boom Tip #35: Consider Long Term Care Insurance

As a baby boomer, now might be the perfect time to consider long term care insurance for yourself. Why? Because costs of care continue to climb. Look at these stats: The cost of a nursing home today is about $71000 annually, ...

Health Insurance - StepBySteps

An index of StepBySteps for the Health Insurance guide site.

The Health Insurance Mess

Joel Chesser on what to do about it.

Homeowner Insurance

How to save money when buying homeowner insurance, determine adequate coverage and insurance deductibles. Features of cost replacement coverage, policy options, umbrella policies and available discounts.

Childs v. Desormeaux: Does Anyone Have Insurance?

Lawyers will not take on a case even where the defendant窶冱 negligence clearly caused injuries to the client if that defendant does not have insurance coverage or funds to be able to satisfy any judgment attained. ...

Congress considers removing antitrust exemption from insurance ...

Too often insurance company PR campaigns have blamed medical malpractice lawyers for the high cost of insurance. Congress needs to repeal the antitrust exemption the industry now enjoys. Consumers of insurance are paying more for their ...

Health insurance fails to protect Americans from financial risk

窶廡or too many Americans, health insurance fails to protect them from the costs of medical care,窶� said Jeff Prottas, coauthor and professor at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis. 窶廣 large percentage of the ...

On Teeth and Insurance, aka Headcare

Dental and eye insurance are one of those things we don窶冲 often talk about when it comes to medical coverage, even though healthy eyes and teeth (and brains!) are essential for one窶冱 overall health. Persistent gum disease alone can give ...

Health-insurance mandates inflate premium costs

As I reviewed previously, federal tax distortions created high-cost, non-portable, employer-pay health insurance. This effectively transformed much insurance into pre-paid medical care, largely separating the costs of medical services ...

Iowa Health Insurance

Contact information for state offices and resources for obtaining and keeping health insurance in Iowa.

Travel Insurance

The topic of travel insurance came up when the English girl I met on a bus (on Jan. 1) told me about the time she lost everything during one of her backpacking vacation but because she had travel insurance, she could continue her trip. ...

The Trouble With Insurance Reporting

As such, I have had the opportunity both to read extensively of the insurance trade and mainstream press and compare it to what I found while reporting from New Orleans and environs, and coastal Mississippi. ...

Insurance "market" in collapse

I have harped endlessly on the collapse of the private property-and-casualty insurance market, but nothing sums up the problem better than Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon's warning to the Associated Press: ...

Health Insurance Just Needs To Be Affordable

While we are on this subject, why does health insurance have to be tied to your place of employment anyway, hmmm? That seems like a screwy way to provide adequate coverage for the millions of Americans who work for small businesses that ...

Why Get Travel Insurance?

Luckily AAA travel agent Kathy LeBlanc had informed Mary Jo of the necessity of carrying travel insurance. ���The airlines have changed. They do not have to provide lodging. They do not have to provide meals for stranded passengers,��� Le ...

RAND Health Insurance Experiment

If you remember only one medical study, it should be the RAND health insurance experiment, where from 1974 to 1982 the US government spent $50 million to randomly assign 7700 people in six US cities to three to five years each of either ...

Insurance 101 Automobile Insurance Good Student Discounts

Have a teenager in the house Is he or she ready to drive You need to know about good student discounts.

Insurance rates could rise

Nationwide Insurance Co. can increase statewide average homeowners insurance rates by a 54 percent, an arbitration panel ruled.

Funny YouTube Videos: Eagleman Insurance Swoops In For Some Laughs

The following video is the original Eagle Man auto insurance commercial from 1993 that captivated Chicagoans and even won a ���Fool of The Year��� award at the grand opening of Chicago���s Nobel Fool Theater��� according to Wikipedia. ...

Ezra Klein: Health Insurance Works

Ezra Klein: Health Insurance Works, Trusting Its Detractors Doesn't: Some of you asked me to take a look at The LA Times op-ed by Michael Cannon and Michael Tanner on why universal health care ain't all it's cracked up to be. ...

Insurance News: Louisiana Bill Motivates Insurers Not To Drop ...

If you are an insurer in Louisiana then you might want to think twice before you non-renew a homeowners��� insurance policy. According to the Louisiana Weekly State Rep. Ken Odinet ���is sponsoring a bill that will threaten insurance ...

More About Homeowners Insurance

I guarantee that if my insurance rates quadruple this fall, I will be doing some serious thinking about what it will take to remain in this city (you know, as if I haven't already). We have all put up with a lot and those of us that ...

John窶冱 Health Insurance Ordeal

So he spent weeks visiting insurance web sites, using online calculation tools, and talking to numerous insurance professionals and other consumers. He gathered tons of data on dozens of health plans and put it all in a big spreadsheet. ...

Renters Insurance Coverage

Types of damage or loss that is protected by renters insurance.

Case Study: Brand Equity in the Insurance Industry

〓Emotional connection to insurance brands is very low. Less than one in five consumers say that their insurance brand has never disappointed them. (The top brand on this measure disappointed two thirds of its customers at some time. ...

Business Insurance Europe

Apply today for your free three-month trial subscription to Business Insurance Europe, a biweekly newspaper focused on trends and issues of interest to corporate risk managers and insurance buyers as well as senior insurance and ...

The value of travel insurance…

THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT EACH OF THEM HAD TRAVEL INSURANCE that covered them for all these expenses PLUS their 2 days of missed vacation. They each were covered up to $750 for their meager $52 travel insurance policy. ...

Finding life insurance quotes online: A site review

This post will look at a specific site that can be used to get rate quotes online, and offer some informational sites that do not provide quotes but can be used to learn about life insurance in preparation for buying a policy. ...

State Children窶冱 Health Insurance Program

I could not afford to pay the premiums for private insurance. Her biological father could not be found to provide insurance for her. Had it not been for this program, which is called PeachCare in Georgia, my daughter窶冱 health could have ...

Hard-Sell tactics used to move senior medicare, health insurance ...

Ederly health insurance customers whether buying medicare, medicare advantage, pre-65 health insurance or just low cost health insurance for seniors are pray to abusive practice.

WellPoint - an insurance exec's perspective

Bob Laszewski weighs in on the Wellpoint insurance cancellation debacle. As a former health insurance company president, Bob's perspective is unique.

Mercury Insurance ad campaign continues to follow UFO Theorist Dr ...

In his follow-up to theMercury Insurance Television campaign of last year, director Ed Schumacher of Boy Genius follows UFO Theorist Dr. DB Selwick on his quest to prove that the low rates of Mercury Insurance are attributable to their ...

J1 Visa Insurance Requirements

If you are a J1 visa holder, or if you are applying for a J1 visa, you must have an insurance plan that will meet certain visa requirements. This post will identify the J1 visa requirements, guide you to insurance plans that meet those ...

AIG's Insurance Business: Not Really Improving

When a case (claim) comes in, the insurance adjuster for AIG sets a "reserve" on the it. This reserve is an approximate value of the case in terms of settlement. This allows AIG to gauge future labilities. When the case is settled, ...

"Shopping For Health Insurance"

When I first got pregnant at age 21, I had no health insurance. And while it would have behooved me to be more proactive about my health and finances, there were more important things going on in my life, like going to school and ...

Insurance Company Tell Law Firm They Won't Cover Blogs

Macworld reports (hat tip WebProNews) that a law firm in New Jersey decided to hold off on setting up a blog after their insurance company told them the blog would not be covered under their malpractice insurance policy. ...

Federal Flood Insurance

Since 1978, the federal flood insurance program has paid out over $11.6 billion in claims. Up to 25 percent of that went to owners of flood damaged property located outside of designated "flood prone" areas. ...

ADHD linked to Daycare, Health Insurance

Daycare and health insurance exposure was based on parent report; ADHD was defined as having current stimulant medication use and parent report of ADHD diagnosed by a doctor or health professional. Results: Of 4704 children 4-15 years ...

EnviroHealth: National Health Insurance Now, Not Later

Health care costs continue to skyrocket, and 47 million people remain uninsured. Sooner, if not later, the system will crash. Must we wait for that to happen?

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