The News Review:
- Health insurance options limited after job loss
- Insurance: Too little too much?
- CHIP Medicaid subsidies urged
- Blowing smoke: Insurance company resists paying damages claiming …
- Threat of change worries teachers in fight for insurance
- Loaning charter bus insurance is perfectly legal
- RP pushes for climate-risk insurance vs effects of global warming
Health insurance options limited after job loss
San Francisco Chronicle USA
tmpl –>John Mathson had been paying about $550 a month to continue his health insurance coverage after the 63-year-old Eureka man got laid off in ctober after 39 years at the Evergreen Pulp mill. tmpl –> Images.
Insurance: Too little too much?
Arizona Republic AZ
21 2008 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic It’s a good bet 2009 will become known as a year for living frugally as cash-strapped Americans try to stretch their dollars amid a weak economy. So let’s warm up with some tips and observations about insurance. It’s easy to overlook various types of property insurance when drawing up your budget yet proper coverage can mean the difference between financial survival and ruin if calamity strikes. Conversely you can waste a lot of money on unneeded coverage. If you’re looking for a New Year’s resolution try making a list of your belongings and their estimated values.
CHIP Medicaid subsidies urged
Deseret News UT
6 million in additional wages and $335 million in new business activity in the state. The report “A Painful Recession: States Cut Health Safety Net Programs” spotlights the growing need for increasing the federal matching funds — known as the Federal Medicaid Matching Payments or FMAP — in the Medicaid program. “It would enable Utah to meet the growing health-care needs of its families while providing a major boost to the state’s economy. Story continues below The Families USA analysis is based on legislation introduced in the Senate by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid which would provide close to $40 billion in temporary additional federal funding for state Medicaid programs. Similar proposals have been developed by the National Governors Association and President-elect Barack bama’s transition team.
Blowing smoke: Insurance company resists paying damages claiming …
Houston Chronicle United States
html In a Houston court case that almost defies belief an insurance company is looking to escape paying damages in the deaths of three people killed in a four-alarm blaze claiming they died from pollution caused by the fire not from the fire itself. Since pollution is excluded from the policy the company argues it is therefore not liable. When Misty Ann Weaver started a fire in her Houston office in March 2007 she was trying to divert attention from a paperwork gaffe. But things went horribly wrong and the resulting conflagration killed three people injured six others and took more than 100 firefighters several hours to put out. Weaver pleaded guilty to three counts of felony murder and one count of first-degree arson and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Threat of change worries teachers in fight for insurance
Detroit Free Press United States
And health insurance plays a major role in contract talks in Grand Rapids Southfield and most of the nearly 270 other districts in the state where teachers do not have a contract. At issue is the coverage provided through the Michigan Education Special Services Association — a union-affiliated agency that pools insurance risk for about half the state’s teachers. As part of a 2007 budget deal the state now requires MESSA to hand over data about the claim histories of individual school districts. The schools can use that data to solicit bids from different providers in an effort to cut costs.
Loaning charter bus insurance is perfectly legal
Houston Chronicle United States
html Most days Maria Rodriguez answers phones makes coffee and cleans out the charter buses at Transportes Chavez her husband’s bus company north of downtown. But when one of her husband’s business associates lost his insurance coverage because of previous bus accidents Rodriguez became the president of a company formed to allow buses to continue along the lucrative Houston-to-Mexico routes. Assisted by her husband Juan Chavez Rodriguez filed documents to create International Charter Services Inc. and listed herself as owner and president. The fact that this 57-year-old immigrant who does not speak English did not have bus management experience knowledge of federal regulations or even a commercial driver’s license did not matter to federal transportation officials. All that mattered was that Rodriguez and her company had bought the required $5 million insurance policy.
RP pushes for climate-risk insurance vs effects of global warming
Business Mirror Philippines
4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:. 0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10. 0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} CLIMATE-risk insurance solutions can reduce the financial risks from an increasing number of natural catastrophes in the Philippines according to Presidential Adviser on Global Warming and Climate Change Secretary Heherson Alvarez. Alvarez said a delegation report to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expounds on what the Philippines needs?an insurance-related system to help poorer countries manage weather-related risks. The insurance being pushed by Switzerland has been submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Alvarez headed the Philippine Delegation to the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Poznan Poland from December 1 to 12. ?Climate risk insurance as a viable option for dampening the negative effects of global warming? Alvarez told the BusinessMirror.
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