|
Know the limitations when choosing among long-term-care insurance plans (Washington Post)
If you're thinking about buying long-term-care insurance, here's one more reason to do it: Long-term-care costs continue to escalate. In 2009, the average annual cost of a private nursing-home room rose 3 percent, to nearly $80,000. Luckily, many employers are offering long-term-care insurance as an...
03/20/2010 - 11:00 PM
Life insurance advised for mothers (The Columbus Dispatch)
BOISE, Idaho - Whether a mother works outside the home or dedicates her life as a homemaker, women are less likely than men to have life insurance, and if they die, their families could be thrown into financial chaos.
03/21/2010 - 05:08 AM
Getting Rid of the Middle Man: Insurance Cos. (ABC News)
At his clinic in Burnsville, Minn., Dr. James Eelkema's patients pay on the spot with cash or credit after receiving care. "The insurance companies changed their rules from just recommending stopping smoking to the patient actually having to stop smoking and tying my compensation to that. I thought this isn't what I went to medical school for."
03/20/2010 - 06:03 PM
Tough test forged bonds between American Strategic Insurance, employees (St. Petersburg Times)
Thanks to Hurricane Charley, American Strategic Insurance feels like it's a family.
03/21/2010 - 12:01 AM
John Gooding, call center manager, Progressive Group of Insurance Cos. (St. Petersburg Times)
John Gooding, 46, call center manager with the Progressive Group of Insurance Cos., where he has worked for 17 years.
03/21/2010 - 12:00 AM
Killeen reviews insurance options (Killeen Daily Herald)
As a vote on health care legislation looms in Washington, D.C., city of Killeen officials learned Friday how approval of the overhaul could clash with insurance plans for the city's 1,200 employees.
03/21/2010 - 06:19 AM
New health insurance plan comes to Fresno (The Fresno Bee)
A startup San Francisco-based insurance company is launching a new health plan Monday in Fresno that offers cost savings to people who change health behaviors and manage chronic diseases.
03/20/2010 - 09:42 PM
ENT: Insurance for the kids - Adult living by Dan Racicot (The Sudbury Star)
Have you seen the recent commercials on TV about buying insurance in old age, so you'll have enough to leave for the kids? What kind of sentimental hand-in-your-pocket commercialism is this? I have yet to encounter an intelligent senior of modest means who believes that the whole purpose of a [...]
03/21/2010 - 05:27 AM
Revised flood maps might have affect on homeowners' insurance rates (Lancaster Eagle-Gazette)
LANCASTER -- People who live in or near flood plain areas in Fairfield County could find out if they still reside in them at a meeting on Wednesday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, along with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, is sponsoring a flood risk information open house to discuss new Flood Insurance Rate Maps for the area.
03/21/2010 - 05:46 AM
Town of Aurora Trims Insurance Costs (East Aurora Advertiser)
A “soft market” in the insurance business is helping the Town of Aurora to save several thousand dollars while increasing its property coverage. The Town Board accepted a bid from Selective Insurance through Badger and Gunner Insurance for $58,319.76. Councilman James Collins said that was about $7,000 less than last year.
03/21/2010 - 04:25 AM
News Feed by
|