The News Review:
- Insurance sharpies
- Hitting the High Seas? Check Your Pirate Insurance.
- Chamber/MAST partnership secure grant to help small business …
- What Tennessee Is Doing About Health Insurance
- Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Announces the Termination of …
Insurance sharpies
Salt Lake Tribune, United States
Why should health insurance selection for seniors or anyone else be a trick question? Why do we have to pit our brains against corporate lawyers and spin-doctors, who are hired to protect the insurers’ interests?To those who say competition improves the product, that is only so when the buyer and the seller have roughly the same level of information. With medical insurance, that is not so. I am fed up with the United States paying more for health care per capita than most of the developed world, and yet living shorter lives and suffering poorer outcomes. Too much of our health-insurance dollar goes to sales and weasel-wording sharpies. This is the point where we get the story about someone in Canada who had to wait six weeks for a non-emergency procedure.
Hitting the High Seas? Check Your Pirate Insurance.
Washington Post, United States
Somali pirates have claimed 95 vessels this year, far surpassing previous years. The riskier the voyages become, the higher operational costs will be. Insurance plans will start charging higher principals, circumspect routes will be used, and financially burdensome security details may have to be hired. In all, though, consumers won’t feel much pain, thanks to the unique economics of sea transport and the security blanket of naval power. There are three tiers of pirate protection for every vessel. The price is set the same way any other insurance rate is: by a calculation of risk. The ship’s key statistics — size of ship, size of crew, length of journey, transport route, docking port, etc.
Chamber/MAST partnership secure grant to help small business …
Evening Observer, NY
To fund the research and development of the ‘Small Business Access Insurance Initiative’, the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), a private foundation based in New York City, has awarded this partnership a grant in the amount of $99,223. “I am thrilled that we were able to support this partnership to expand insurance coverage in the small group and individual markets of Chautauqua County,” said NYSHealth President and CEO James R. “Coalitions like this are an innovative and effective way to address the rising health insurance premiums faced by small businesses. Strengthening our health care infrastructure and improving the health of New Yorkers require important investments, and NYSHealth is committed to supporting projects like this one.
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What Tennessee Is Doing About Health Insurance
Wall Street Journal
In 2000 she got very sick — from a tick bite — and had to spend about $9,000 for medical care. She put most of it on her credit cards, which took years to pay off. We all want to help Ms. Landry, but here’s the problem: a comprehensive health-insurance policy for her costs about $5,000 a year, and someone has to pay that. That’s a real number that won’t go away with group purchasing or by beating up insurance companies. Landry can’t afford that, and in a world of trillion-dollar deficits it’s hard to see how the federal government can either.
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Announces the Termination of …
MarketWatch
FNF is one of the nation’s largest title insurance
companies through its title insurance underwriters – Fidelity National Title,
Chicago Title, Ticor Title, Security Union Title and Alamo Title – that issue
approximately 27 percent of all title insurance policies in the United States. FNF also provides flood insurance, personal lines insurance and home warranty
insurance through its specialty insurance business. FNF also is a leading
provider of outsourced claims management services to large corporate and
public sector entities through its minority-owned subsidiary, Sedgwick CMS. FNF is also a leading information services company in the human resource,
retail and transportation markets through another minority-owned subsidiary,
Ceridian Corporation. More information about FNF can be found at.