The severe economic downturn that has put an unprecedented number of workers in line for unemployment benefits will drive the tax rates employers pay to support the benefit program up 70 percent in 2009. The new rates will still be slightly lower than the rates in 2006.
Idaho Department of Labor Director Roger Madsen announced the [...]
After a Senate inquiry found evidence of deceptive marketing, AARP, the lobby for older Americans, has hired an outside investigator to look into sales of some of its popular health insurance products.
AARP and UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest insurers, have voluntarily suspended sales of the policies, which pay fixed cash benefits often much [...]
Electric Insurance Company, a national provider of auto, homeowners, condominium, and renters insurance, announced today that it has appointed Southwest Insurance Brokers, a full service personal lines insurance agency, as an independent agent for the marketing of its personal lines insurance products to the greater Phoenix, Arizona market. The agency was licensed to distribute these [...]
Cruises are great. Get on board and enjoy the scenic ports of call, entertainment, pampering, and incredible food. That is usually the case. But according to Travel Insurance Services, specialists in travel-related insurance plans for over thirty years, cruise passengers get hurt or sick often enough that they should be prepared for the possibility. This [...]
Travel agents have confirmed that bargain holidays are plentiful as tourists hold back on making long-term plans. Few holidays for 2002 are being booked while travellers opt instead for last-minute decisions. The pattern emerged as travel operators discussed the effects of the 11 September terror attacks at their annual industry convention in Lisbon, Portugal.
The industry [...]
For U.S. residents whose citizenship is elsewhere, travel among fifteen European countries is now easier with the Schengen visa. This visa allows travelers to cross the borders of the now 15 participating countries without the inconvenience of lengthy border checks. Requirements for this visa are extensive, including providing proof of qualifying travel health insurance for [...]
Travelers can use travel insurance to help protect themselves but there are a few things they should know before buying:
Buy travel insurance from an independent source rather than from the travel provider. Travel Insurance policies offered by tour operators, cruise lines, or airlines either dona€?t cover their own financial default or they exclude the financial [...]
The invitation to bid went out to insurance carriers in Florida but it doesn’t appear they are chomping at the bit.
That’s in stark contrast to the fanfare given this past spring to legislation lauded by Gov. Charlie Crist called Cover Florida, to provide low-cost insurance plans to the uninsured.
“The (coverage) mandates are what drive the [...]
Chartwell Independent Insurance Brokers LLC, a wholesale and specialty insurance broker in Scottsdale, has added an excess and surplus casualty division.
The Chartwell E&S Casualty Division will consist of Senior Vice President Colin Rice and Vice President Chad Krumbach and an account support team. The team will have national reach, but local focus in the West [...]
Homeowners are being urged to make sure they have adequate insurance in place as the weather takes a turn for the worse and fierce storms hit large parts of the country.Sainsbury’s Home Insurance says it expects to see a large increase in the number of claims being made as a result of bad weather over [...]
