Car-insurance rates, after falling for several years, may be heading up again.
States that saw the largest price increases included Indiana, up 6.7%; Arkansas, 6.1%; Texas, 4.3%; Nevada, 4.1%; and Illinois, 3.8%. Pennsylvania saw a boost of 3.6%. The gain in Indiana reflected an average increase of $94, for a total of $1,501 per year.
Until recently, [...]
Mary Wusterbarth thought her toddler was struggling with an ear infection when she seemed sluggish. Instead, a virus had attacked the little girl’s heart, damaging it beyond repair. Brea needed a transplant.
Within three weeks of a 2007 doctor visit, the 20-month-old had exhausted the $1 million lifetime maximum on her health insurance. Her parents have [...]
Mary Wusterbarth thought her toddler was struggling with an ear infection when she seemed sluggish. Instead, a virus had attacked the little girl’s heart, damaging it beyond repair. Brea needed a transplant.
Within three weeks of a 2007 doctor visit, the 20-month-old had exhausted the $1 million lifetime maximum on her health insurance. Her parents have [...]
An alliance of insurance companies and environmentalists wants to bring a new kind of mileage-based auto insurance to California and charge motorists only for the number of miles actually driven.
Called pay as you drive, the option is available from a few insurers in 34 states but not California as well as Canada, Japan and Europe.
One [...]
He said Betty Neumar told him: “If something happens to you, you take care of me, and if something happens to me, I take care of you. It was all too suspicious. So I got out of there any way I could, as soon as I could.”
He did well. Neumar is currently in a North [...]
A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of “a-”to White Mountain Insurance Company (White Mountain) (Burlington, VT). The outlook assigned to both ratings is stable.
The ratings reflect White Mountain’s excellent capitalization, solid underwriting and overall operating performance and conservative operating strategy. The rating also considers [...]
Jason West was delighted when officers managed to recover his Volkswagen Golf from the thief after a 30 minute pursuit in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, in February of this year.
The former mechanic now fears he will lose his no-claims bonus, pushing the cost of running a car beyond his means.
An opportunist thief took the black coloured Golf [...]
New rules about when filmmakers and photographers must obtain permits when they shoot on New York City streets have been made official, The Associated Press reported. Under the new rules, productions must have permits and at least $1 million in insurance if they plan to leave less than eight feet of open space on a [...]
As companies cut corners and more entrepreneurs strike out on their own, the individual health insurance market is growing.
“There’s been a precipitous drop in the number of businesses offering coverage,” says Sam Gibbs, senior vice president of eHealthInsurance.com, an online insurance broker.
These days, the same people who traded company pension plans for self-managed 401(k)s are [...]
A joint Bahrain-Qatar insurance company was established in Doha yesterday, the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced.
BCCI chairman Dr Essam Fakhro sealed the deal with his Qatari counterpart Shaikh Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani.
The newly-established firm specialises in insurance fees levied on cars crossing the planned causeway linking both the countries.
The founder Bahraini members [...]
