After a storm tears through Houston, the damage is impossible to miss: torn shingles, water staining the ceiling, windows shattered across the floor. You do the right thing, documenting everything, mitigating further loss, and reporting the claim to your insurer. In Houston, a home insurance fight doesn't always begin with a formal denial letter showing up in the…
DETROIT, MICHIGAN- July 14, 2026- Will it or won't it? Wall Street is split on whether the Federal Reserve will cut, raise or leave interest rates alone at its next meeting in September. While the Fed plans to hold the federal funds rate steady at 3.5% to 3.75%, Warsh intends to be tough on inflation in the coming months, which some on Wall Street took to mean a…
California state employees will see smaller increases to their healthcare premiums compared to last year’ s rate hikes following Tuesday’ s approval of CalPERS’ 2027 health insurance rates. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System board of administration approved a weighted average increase of 5% to healthcare rates during a Tuesday board…
Quanterix Corporation, a global leader in precision biomarker science, today announced a series of milestones that significantly advance the clinical adoption of blood-based Alzheimer’ s testing. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield eligible members will be the first commercially insured patients in the United States to benefit from medical policy…
2026 JUL 14– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx COVID-19 Daily– Investigators publish new report on Coronavirus- COVID-19. For more information on this research see: Risk Preferences At the Time of Covid-19: an Experiment With Professional Traders and Students. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2026; 50. Journal of Behavioral and…
RockRose Risk, the insurance brokerage giving property owners discounts for wildfire mitigation, today announced the launch of its homeowners insurance product in California. The expansion, which follows the rapid growth of their commercial property product in California, Nevada, and Colorado, marks the company’s first entry into the residential market.
–Third-party administrator and pharmacy benefit manager contracts have been awarded to to Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina effective January 2028. Also in its meeting Friday, the North Carolina State Health Plan Board of Trustees voted on preferred provider hospital systems, benefit changes and premiums for 2027.. "Blue Cross NC is grateful to be…
Millions of Americans who buy their own health insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces faced a stark choice this year: pay more than twice as much to keep the same plan or go without. Many did not keep their coverage. Federal data released on June 26, 2026, shows that marketplace enrollment fell from 21.8 million people in February 2025 to…
Consumer prices dropped 0.4% from May to June, the largest monthly drop in four years, the Labor Department said Tuesday, after rising 0.5% in the previous month. The core figures suggest that the gas price spike from the Iran war, while it pushed up airfares and some other costs, hasn't so far led to broad-based, sustained inflation, economists said.
