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Desperate family chose risky option — no insurance  Fairborn — When Michele Takacs lost her job last year, the family's health insurance options were little to none: Go with an expensive health plan offered by husband Ken's employer, a local automobile dealership, or nothing at a

Don't flop on flood insurance  Like most 20-somethings, I don't spend a lot of time stressing about insuran

BB&T Insurance unit acquires insurance agency  RALEIGH, N.C. – BB&T Insurance Services July 30 said it plans to expand its coastal South Carolina operation with the acquisition of the Grand Strand’s Puckett, Scheetz & Hogan insurance agen

GOV'S SURGICAL STRIKE ON MD INSURANCE HIKES  This is just what the doctor ordered. Gov. Paterson yesterday enacted a one-year moratorium on malpractice-insurance rate hikes for Empire State doctors, who are already paying some of the highest premiums in the nation. "We are claiming a major

Insurance, credit unlinked  LANSING -- Insurance companies in Michigan no longer will be able to use customers' credit scores to set home and auto insurance premiums if a state Court of Appeals ruling stands. The 2-1 decision released Friday reversed a 2005 ruling by a lower judge who blocked the state insurance office's ban against credit-based insurance rat

Is umbrella liability insurance for you?  CHICAGO, Illinois -- Most Americans have auto insurance, health insurance, dental insurance, homeowners or renters insurance, life insurance, maybe disability insuran

Mich. court OKs ban on credit scoring in insurance  Insurance companies in Michigan no longer will be able to use customers' credit scores to set home and auto insurance premiums if a state Court of Appeals ruling stan

Doctor Charged With No-Fault Insurance Fraud  A medical doctor, formerlyemployed at a Jamaica medical clinic, has been indicted by a Queens County grand jury forfalsely billing insurance carriers over a nearly four year period for costly medical tests neverprovided to motor vehicle accident victims.It is alleged that the defendant submitted old test resultsof other patients as proof that he did the tes

Insurance funds divided between van fire victims  KEWAUNEE The $500,000 paid out from an insurance policy will be distributed to the families whose children were killed in a van fire in Luxemburg late last year, a judge ruled Frid

8,000 migrants in vetting scandal had National Insurance numbers  Almost 8,000 illegal workers at the centre of a security industry vetting scandal had National Insurance numbers, it has emerg

Common questions about what insurance covers  Tropical Storm Fay caused flooding, widespread power failures, and some building damage. Jeff Grady, president of the Florida Association of Insurance Agents, and association Vice President Scott Johnson answered commonly asked questions about what standard insurance policies cover for damage from a storm like Fay.

Unlikely stars stepping up in playoff race  The idea is to have some insurance. Every good team has to have insurance. Because when it gets to this time of the season, if somebody important on the roster is hurt and you don't have insurance? Well, you end up like the Padres last year, coughing and sputtering toward the finish line with key players injured and no capable replacements to fill in. And you don't want to end up like the '07

Feds give Mass. fifth health insurance waiver  State given fifth health insurance waiv

Insurance coverage deadline coming  Crop farmers who want to be eligible for disaster assistance on 2009 summer crops must have crop insurance coverage on all insurable fall planted crops by the Se

Tell insurance company of enhancements  Enhancements aren't covered until the insurance company knows of them, says Bankrate car columnist Terry Jacks

Insurance industry to appeal credit-based scoring decision  The Insurance Institute of Michigan says it will appeal a decision by the Michigan Court of Appeals that ruled the insurance industry can't award discounts based on personal credit ratin

1:15 p.m. — Senators call for oversight hearing for GovGuam health insurance  1:15 p.m — In a letter addressed to Sen. Frank Blas Jr. and Homeland Security dated yesterday, Sens. Judith Guthertz and Rory Respicio requested Blas call an oversight hearing concerning government of Guam retirees who have complained about the new medical and dental health insurance provisions that will take effect Oct.

Insurance Australia Posts Loss on U.K. Writedowns (Update3)  Aug. 22 -- Insurance Australia Group Ltd. , which rejected a takeover offer this year, turned to a loss in the second half as new Chief Executive Officer Mike Wilkins wrote down his predecessor's U.K. investmen

Realtors Expect Housing Prices To Drop Amid High Insurance Costs  HARRISON COUNTY WLOX--As insurance costs go up expect housing prices to continue to go down or at the very least remain the same. That's what some South Mississippi realtors are saying. On Thursday the state insurance commissioner announced rate hike approvals for two major insurance compani

Unum Group to Present at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Insurance Conference  Unum Group NYSE: UNM announced today that Thomas R. Watjen, president and chief executive officer, will be representing the company at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Insurance Conference on Sept. 4, 2008, in New York Ci

Bickering insurance companies leads to suit against SDISD  The construction company that built San Diego High School filed a lawsuit against the district and two insurance companies last week, asking the court to settle a disagreement between the district and those companies in another lawsu

Paterson freezes malpractice insurance rates  Associated Press - August 22, 2008 3:45 PM ET ALBANY, N.Y. - Gov. David Paterson is freezing medical malpractice insurance rates for a year as he seeks a broader solution to high business

Feds give Mass. fifth health insurance waiver  BOSTON -- The federal government has granted Massachusetts a fifth extension in negotiations aimed at continuing the state's new universal health care l