FDIC Bank Account Insurance Coverage Calculator

The recent Bailout law increased the FDIC insurance coverage for bank accounts to $250,000 per person, per bank. However, different types of accounts, such as joint, POD, etc. affect how the coverage is calculated. The FDIC provides this handy calculator to estimate the coverage available to you for your accounts at each bank.
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U.S.D.C. for Southern District of Mississippi Allows Insurer to Correct Admission as to Operative Policy

… Dist. Lexis 77347 (S.D. Miss. Oct. 1, 2008) presents at least some evidence that in some states insurers are able to make mistakes and still prevail. When Geico filed its complaint, it included a copy of the insurance policy … evidence was presented to rebut the legal presumption that “Once properly mailed, the [...]

REHAB SAVES INSURANCE COMPANY

In Matter of Interboro Ins. Co. v. Coronel, Interboro Insurance Company petitioned to permanently stay arbitration of a number of uninsured motorist claims. In 2001, Patricia Coronel was driving a vehicle owned by Manuel Coronel when she … Court denied Interboro’s request and dismissed the case, Interboro appealed to the Appellate Division, Second [...]

Allstate Insurance Company And Posit Science Is Providing 100,000 Pennsylvania Customers Age 50 T0 75 With Specialized Computer Games

… As a Philadelphia personal injury attorney, there is probably not a week that goes by that I am not involved in an insurance claim situation with Allstate Insurance Company. I recently came across a story that intrigued me. Allstate, the company that allegedly puts you … the “InSight” software. This in turn [...]

Invitation To Attend "The Global Credit Crisis And The International Insurance Industry" Symposium on November 7th in New York City

… ARIAS•US Conference on Friday, November 7th, from 1:30-4:15PM. “The Global Credit Crisis and the International Insurance Industry” brings together leaders in the field whose update will prove useful in key areas. We welcome your participation. … . With hundreds of billions of dollars in corporate write-downs already taken and more to come, billions of [...]

Son-In-Law Tenant Residing in "Additional Residence Rented to Others" Not an "Insured"

… , and (3) that Ramos was a renter, or lessee, of the premises where the incident occurred. Since defendant Scuderi, the named insured, did not reside with his son-in-law Ramos at the premises where the underlying incident occurred, and Ramos did … AD2d 837 [1995]). Thus, since Ramos is a tenant of [...]

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 10/10/09

… Business litigation attorney Angelo Tartaro on Rogers & Tartaro’s Business Litigation Blog Lawyers Want Less Stress, More Personal Time. Big Surprise - Tennessee lawyer John Day of Day & Blair at his blog, Day on Torts Companies Collapse, Preferred Shareholders Sue - Ohio attorney Kevin LaCroix of OakBridge Insurance Services at his blog, [...]

Ruling Threatens Judges’ Perks

… unconstitutional gift of public funds.” In addition to their annual salaries of $178,789, trial court judges receive state-provided health insurance and other benefits. Los Angeles County also provides local judges a lump sum equal to 19 percent of their income - $33,970 this year - to spend on medical, vision and dental insurance. [...]

U.S. Federal Documents Covering the Economy

… Carney Letter Expresses a Need for More Resources to Investigate Corporate Fraud Interim Final Rule: Deposit Insurance Regulations, Temporary Increase in Standard Coverage Amount, Mortgage Servicing Accounts (PDF 128 KB) Rule as … Significant Deterioration in Credit Quality (PDF 120 KB) Prepared by the Office of Thrift Supervision, Federal Deposit Insurance [...]

VeriSign and ICANN Square Off Over the DNS Root

… deletions to the root zone file AND CONFIRMING THEIR VALIDITY should generate and digitally sign the resulting root zone file update. This should then be passed to VeriSign for distribution. This particular choice of operation allows the agency that prepares the changes to insure the integrity of the new zone file before it leaves [...]