The card that landed in mailboxes throughout central Illinois in early 2008 promoted "the most informative retirement workshop you've ever attended."
Insurers were dealt a blow Thursday as state regulators endorsed a tough new law that boosts the amount of premium money they'll have to pay for patient care.
Industry experts say more insurers will drop health care coverage or go out of business if they are forced to meet a Jan. 1 deadline that requires them to boost the money devoted to providing care.
Consumers spend thousands of dollars a year on health insurance premiums, and the reform law aims to regulate just how much of that money insurers actually spend on medical costs.
Over-regulating credit ratings might just have a happy ending.
Hope Murray thought her prayers had been answered.
If the wildfires in Florida have you thinking about whether you have enough insurance for your home, here are some top tips on how you can protect your home when disaster strikes.
You can improve the odds that you'll collect the policy benefits you expected, if and when you need them, if you take these steps.
INSURANCE POLICIES HAVE A way of sitting unread in drawers. Time to pull yours out. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners reports that bogus insurers dupe thousands of people a year (...
The last time my wife fainted, which happens once every decade or so, we went to the E.R., stayed for a few hours, found out that she had a concussion and got hit with a bill for $13,086.48. Then i...
Homeowner premiums jumped by a third between 2001 and 2004, according to J.D. Power & Associates. So you'd think you could get more love, right? Wrong. You're paying not for service but to make up ...
Homeowner premiums jumped by a third between 2001 and 2004, according to J.D. Power & Associates. So you'd think you could get more love, right?
Insurance companies may have to pay up to $60 billion after Hurricane Katrina left thousands of people homeless. The question is how much will you have to pay?
Dear Armchair Millionaire: I've always rented my apartment and never bother with renter's insurance. Someone told me the other day that I should get it. Is it actually important?
There's no getting around it. For most of us, our home is our single most valuable asset. But unlike traditional investments, which might appreciate even if you left them alone, a home requires reg...
Money Magazine: Trim your insurance billupdated: Thu May 13 2004 18:02:00
Here's the essential homeowners' check list of what you can do to reduce the insurance bill on your home.
Consumers now have an easy way to research a life, health, auto or homeowners insurance company's customer service record--and to voice a fresh complaint. At the National Association of Insurance C...
Last month, I got home from work to find that a thief had broken into my apartment and left me with little more than a pile of clothing. I'm a personal-finance reporter, so you might assume my rent...
If you need life insurance, you should never procrastinate. But now there's more reason than ever to get a policy before Dec. 31. After more than a decade of declining insurance rates, prices for c...
If you're in the market for life insurance, now may be the time to buy--especially if what you need is a level-premium term policy, one whose premiums remain constant for an extended period. The re...
By now, you may think you know all that you need to know about President Clinton's health-reform plan, which faces a congressional debate likely to last a year. But Money has uncovered three surpri...
CALL THE ROLL of big insurance companies that have taken shelter in the arms of regulatory authorities since April: Mutual Benefit Life of New Jersey, California's First Capital Life, Monarch Life ...
When the $13 billion insurance subsidiaries of Los Angeles-based First Executive Corp. were taken over by state regulators in New York and California in April, most Americans didn't much care. But ...
Quick. What kind of life insurance policy: 1) Pays out an average of only 38 cents to beneficiaries -- and in some states, as little as 17 cents -- for every $1 of premium you pay, compared with 83...
THE JUNK BOND market's contraction has been even more breathtaking than its epoch-shaping expansion. Just a year ago high-yield underwriters completed their biggest deal ever, the $25 billion lever...
You confidently stride up to the counter to rent a car. ''I don't need the collision-damage waiver, since I'm covered by my credit card,'' you explain. The agent smiles and asks, ''But what about l...
You would think the second-largest U.S. life insurance company could find an easier way to get new business. But since Metropolitan Life put together the rescue package for bankrupt Baldwin-United ...
Money Magazine: A guide for shoppersupdated: Sun Mar 01 1987 00:01:00
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a group of state regulators, has adopted a pair of cost indexes to help the public cut through the price variables of life insurance policies. M...
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