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Bill Filed To Reduce Home Insurance Rates
A bill filed last week would reduce wind-insurance rates by enticing more companies to write policies in South Carolina and give homeowners more information to comparison shop when buying and renewing...
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Press Release: QuoteGuardian Offers Live Transfer and Call Verified Leads
QuoteGuardian is now offering Live Transfer Leads (LTL) as well as Call Verified Leads (CVL). Live Transfer Leads are leads that have been called to verify leads information, desire to buy insurance...
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The Simple, Boring Reason Why Disability Insurance Has Exploded
Last week, we spent some time discussing a recent “This American Life” segment on the extraordinary growth of federal disability insurance, which now costs $260 billion per year. There are now roughly...
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Gun Insurance: An Economic Argument
As gun violence legislation sputters in Congress, the idea of requiring mandatory gun liability insurance seems to be gaining more traction. I cited the idea last December when I wrote about it here in...
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Buying Insurance Based on Your Genetics
Robert Cooke-Deegan knows exactly how to scare insurance companies. When he discusses the results of his study, titled “Genetic Testing for Alzheimer’s and Long-Term Care Insurance,” with industry...
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Interest in Personal Gun Liability Insurance Protection Increasing
Interest in personal liability insurance for firearms owners has expanded with the media focus on gun-centric events and the public discussion on liability issue. While coverage is available through...
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Will Your Insurance Help After A Catastrophe?
As the people of West, Texas, begin picking up the pieces of their homes and lives, and homeowners in the central region of the country begin a massive bailout due to the recent storm, many homeowners...
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Workers’ Unhealthy Habits Have Growing Effect On Insurance Premiums
If you’re overweight, have high blood pressure, smoke or are diabetic, your employer might soon require you to improve your health, get counseling on the issue or pay a fine, especially if you work for...
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U.S. Auto and Home Insurance Customers Turn to Digital Sources
U.S. consumers are turning to digital sources for insurance quotes and other information, but still prefer personal contact with agents when purchasing insurance products, according to an Accenture...
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Racing to Spread Word About New Health Plans
President Obama and the Democrats passed the 2010 health care law to make medical insurance available to more than 30 million people who do not have it. But with recent studies showing that as many as...
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How A Virtual Health Insurance Card Could Help Doctors Reduce Bad Debt
In an era of e-tickets, bitcoins and app-based banking, it seems pretty antiquated that we still have to fumble through our wallets for an insurance card each time we go to the doctor’s office. But a...
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What Health Insurance Doesn’t Do
In one of the most famous studies of health insurance, conducted across the 1970s, thousands of participants were divided into five groups, with each receiving a different amount of insurance coverage....
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Insurance That’s ‘Just Right’ for an Old Car
Whether you drive an aging set of wheels because it’s cheaper or because it has sentimental value, there are important things you need to know about buying insurance for an old car. In your auto...
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Should You Consider Disability Insurance?
Americans use insurance to protect a host of assets, from cars to homes to jewelry. But many people forget to insure their most important asset — the ability to work and earn a living. As a recent...
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Some Dog Breeds Too Risky for Insurance Companies
Imagine owning a loveable, friendly dog, only to have your insurance company raise your home insurance rates or refuse coverage because of your pet. It’s a reality in many states, including Utah. Some...
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How Your Health Insurance Will Be Turned On Its Head
In the next decade most health insurance will change from a defined-benefit — you know what services you will receive — to a defined-contribution — your know how much money you get. This very profound...
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Four Ways To Beat High Health Care Costs; Fidelity Says Recent Retirees Need...
Have you included health care costs in your retirement number? $220,000 is what Fidelity Investments figures a 65-year-old couple retiring this year will need—not including nursing home care—to cover...
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Homeowners Struggle with Rising Insurance Costs
When Stan Virden moved into his 2,400-square-foot house overlooking a rock-lined canal in 1996, he paid less than $1,000 a year for homeowners insurance. Now, as he seeks to move to Atlanta to be near...
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Young Adults Want to Get Health Insurance
Young adults overwhelmingly value health insurance and don’t believe they are too healthy to need it, according to survey data published Wednesday. The findings of the poll by the Henry J. Kaiser...
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Flood insurance changes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of homeowners facing higher federal flood insurance premiums under reforms passed last year would win a temporary one-year reprieve under a measure that began...
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