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Company Pays Settlement in Buckets of Loose Change
An unexpected delivery of loose change has a 73-year-old man in California giving his own two cents. Andres Carrasco filed a lawsuit in 2012 against Adriana’s Insurance Service, Inc. alleging he was physically assaulted by one of the company's employees.
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Obamacare Now Pays for Gender Reassignment
The nation’s health law opens the door for transgender people to gain coverage for gender reassignment surgeries they previously could not afford.
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In New Zealand Weather Costs Insurers $135 Million
This year's bill from storm damage is adding up to more than $135 million already.
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How Insurers Are Finding Ways to Shift Costs to the Sick
Health insurance companies are no longer allowed to turn away patients because of their pre-existing conditions or charge them more because of those conditions. But some health policy experts say insurers may be doing so in a more subtle way: by forcing people with a variety of illnesses — including Parkinson’s disease, diabetes and epilepsy — to pay more for their drugs.
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Insurance scammer goes all out
Insurance scammer goes all out
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Costs Can Go Up Fast When E.R. Is in Network but the Doctors Are Not
When Jennifer Hopper raced to the emergency room after her husband, Craig, took a baseball in the face, she made sure they went to a hospital in their insurance network in Texas. So when they got a $937 bill from the emergency room doctor, she called the insurer, assuming it was in error.
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Common Misunderstandings of Travel Insurance
There are many common misconceptions about travel insurance, most of which are only misconceptions because of the dreaded small print. The small print contains critical information about what a policy covers. While we all know we should probably read it before handing over our cash, the combination of tiny writing and tedious jargon means we tend to just skip it and check the box in the knowledge that we are covered for something, and the belief that there will be no need to make a claim anyway
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When Does Annual Travel Insurance Make Sense?
Annual travel insurance plans are also called multi-trip plans. As the name implies this type of insurance is good for an unlimited number of trips within one calendar year of the effective policy date.
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Obamacare isn't just expanding health insurance. It's reducing inequality.
Obamacare is becoming a huge weapon in the fight against inequality. This shows up clearly in this New York Times piece. It uses data from Civis Analytics to understand, on the most micro-level, how the Affordable Care Act is changing America.
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My Insurance Company Killed Me, Despite Obamacare
How far will a health-insurance company go to deny coverage when you are really sick? How willing are they to risk their customers’ health and possibly their lives? Well let me tell you my experience with Health Republic and its affiliate MagnaCare. For five months—ever since I was diagnosed with stage-four metastasized prostate cancer...
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Feds to Employers: You Can’t Dump Sick Workers Onto Obamacare
A loophole touted as a way for employers to wiggle out of the Affordable Care Act’s insurance mandate has been closed. What happened? Officials got wind that some employers planned to bypass the mandate by giving their workers bonuses, asking them to decline company-sponsored insurance and sending them to the Obamacare marketplaces to buy subsidized policies.
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Can a dash cam protect you? Use of in-car video cameras on the rise
The video was creepy and frightening, showing an impromptu roadblock encountered by a driver on the Newark Bay extension of the New Jersey Turnpike in Hudson County. Without a dash cam to capture it, no one may have believed what the driver saw. Ivan Tukhtin of Edison, who recorded that encounter, said that's why he bought a dash cam, to document what he encountered on the road and avoid the "he said, she said" that can happen after a crash.
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Finance Time
Finance, banking and Insurance
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U.S. Health Agency Says Nearly 6.5 million People in HealthCare.Gov Plans
Nearly 6.5 million people either selected or were enrolled in a new individual insurance plan for 2015 on the HealthCare.gov website through Dec. 26, the U.S. government health agency said.
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AirAsia offers $125,000 to victims' families
AirAsia will pay roughly $125,000 in compensation to the families of passengers on board the fatal flight that crashed off the coast of Indonesia last month. The company told CNN it will provide about $100,000 in compensation for each passenger on the plane. That's in addition to $24,000 already offered to victims' families. A spokesperson said AirAsia will follow Indonesia's Transport Ministry's regulations, which set compensation at 1.3 million Indonesian rupiah ($98,000) for deaths caused...
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Interstate pileup leaves road covered in 500 pounds of fries
A six-vehicle pileup on Interstate 90 in South Dakota left the road covered in 500 pounds of McDonald's french fries.
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Car Insurance for College Students: Saving 101 - Quoted
We've got tips on car insurance for college students that are so good, you'll feel like you've snuck the answers to a test.
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Massive Breach at Health Care Company Anthem Inc.
As many as 80 million customers of the nation's second large health insurance company, Anthem Inc., have had their account information stolen, the company said.
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Insurers worry self-driving cars could put a dent in their business
A world of robot cars may still be a long way off but that hasn’t stopped some big insurance companies from worrying about them. And not for the reasons you might think. That three insurance companies and an auto parts manufacturer mentioned driverless cars in their annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the last week signifies a certain coming of age for autonomous vehicle technology.
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Republican White House Hopefuls Attack Obamacare But Take Money
Several Republican governors likely to run for president have secured hundreds millions of dollars under Obamacare while working to dismantle the healthcare law, according to a Reuters review .
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