It’s annual benefits enrollment season, and companies increasingly are stuffing their packets of offerings with more than just the usual medical, dental and vision care policies.
The workplace has morphed into a popular and lucrative place for insurance companies to find new customers. Instead of cold-calling prospective clients at home, agents are showing up at conference [...]
Auto insurance premiums have gone up almost 7 percent on average in Georgia due to a new law that does not require insurance companies to get state approval before changing auto insurance rates.
A vast majority of Georgia residents have seen their rates jump. Some auto insurance premiums have even doubled for certain drivers viewed as [...]
Purva Patel’s article on the difficulty homeowners are having collecting on their insurance claims in the wake of Hurricane Ike was a good starting point for a discussion of how insurance companies respond to natural disasters.
The sad truth is that this situation is not unique to the Texas Gulf Coast or Hurricane Ike. In fact, [...]
Time and time again, far too many individuals shoulder these burdens without the financial cushion of flood insurance. In some instances, people have been told they cannot buy flood insurance because of where they live, or because they have flooded before.
Flood insurance is available. You can buy flood insurance as long as you live in [...]
The New Windsor Police Detective Division arrested a New Windsor Towing Operator and Body Shop owner for Insurance Fraud.
The arrest was a result of an ongoing investigation with GEICO Insurance Company into the overcharging for towing and storage services.. GEICO investigators were able to show that on four different occasions the suspect overcharged the Insurance [...]
In a report to a General Assembly special committee Tuesday, the N.C. Rate Bureau said it will ask for the increase when it files its rate plan with the N.C. Department of Insurance. The filing is expected next week, department spokeswoman Kristin Milam said Wednesday.
Rate Bureau officials indicated that the proposed hikes are needed to [...]
The Federal Housing Administration’s fund to cover losses on the mortgages it insures is shrinking, but remains above the point where taxpayers would need to kick in money to cover defaults, according to an independent audit of the agency’s financial soundness.
Since its creation in 1934, FHA has been self-sustaining, meaning no public money has been [...]
It was a hot election topic that continues to sizzle long after the votes have been counted: Lawrence County government employees’ insurance.
Opting not to wait until the new year to make changes, the current commission moved forward with a one-year plan to avoid an 18 percent increase by switching from Medical Mutual to United Health [...]
When Dave Wilder and his wife, Lynn, surveyed the remains of their house after it burned to the ground in a wildfire near Lake Arrowhead east of Los Angeles in October 2007, the thing that struck him most wasn’t the devastation, and it wasn’t the loss of everything they owned.
He thought things couldn’t get any [...]
Wisconsin has the nation’s fourth-lowest rate of uninsured children, but the director of a health advocacy group said the state could cover more kids if Congress expands the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP.
Bonnie Kuhr, administrator of N.E.W. Community Center, said “the state has done a phenomenal job” at making it easier for community [...]
