Amid changes to New York's Essential Plan, James offers tips on shopping for coverage and avoiding scams. Submitted by the Office of New York Attorney General Letitia James. New York Attorney General Letitia James has released guidance to help New Yorkers understand their health insurance options and avoid scams as major changes to New York's Essential Plan…

Yet Sacramento continues to favor government spending over real relief. Despite historic revenue gains exceeding $60 billion above initial projections, the budget relies on accounting gimmicks, new tax hikes and withdrawals of more than $14 billion from the state’ s Rainy Day Fund to achieve balance. This will add an average of $400 per year for a family of four…

South Carolina is a beautiful state to live in, but it’ s also one of the most expensive states for home insurance in the U.S., and a recent report warns that it’ ll get even costlier in the coming years due to increasing climate risk. Coalition for an Insurable Future, an advocacy group, and Mandala Partners, a public policy consulting firm, worked together to create a…

The following information was released by the Texas Department of Insurance:. The Texas Department of Insurance has created resources to give Texans access to data the agency collects about home insurance claims and premiums and home and auto rate filings. The Texas homeowners losses by county page shows the loss types and dollar amounts that companies paid…

The following information was released by the Council on Foreign Relations:. Roger W. Ferguson Jr. is the Steven A Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Kevin Warsh was sworn in as the new chair of the Federal Reserve on May 22, succeeding Jerome Powell at the helm of the world's most consequential…

New YorkAttorney GeneralLetitiaJames today released guidance to help New Yorkers understand their health insurance options and avoid scams as major changes to New York's Essential Plan take effect.Beginning July 1, 2026, New Yorkers enrolled in the Essential Plan with household incomes over 200 percent of the federal poverty level will no longer be…

A survey released this month by the insurance firm Northwestern Mutual says that many Americans, including some in their 50 s and 60 s, rely on their parents for financial help. The Federal Reserve also conducts an annual survey on financial well-being, and it also reported an increase in the reliance on parents to pay the bills. In many ways this is not surprising;…

Alan Greenspan, hailed as the greatest Federal Reserve chairman when he retired in 2006 but derided for a severe financial crisis that followed barely two years later, died on Monday aged 100, his wife said. Greenspan, who exerted a powerful influence on the U.S. economy during his tenure at the helm of the Fed from August 1987 to January 2006, died at his home from…

Alan Greenspan, who in nearly two decades as chair of the Federal Reserve nurtured a long run of prosperity, navigated crises and was a powerful and polarizing force in shaping market-friendly policies, died Monday at his home in Washington. The cause was complications of Parkinson's disease, his wife, Andrea Mitchell, the chief Washington correspondent and…

WASHINGTON— Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared the blame for a devastating financial crisis, died Monday. "Under his leadership, the Federal Reserve achieved a sustained era of price stability that supported economic growth and helped anchor the public’ s…

2026 JUN 22– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Researchers detail new data in Managed Care. For more information on this research see: Low-Value Care Following Hospital and Private Equity Acquisition in Primary Care. Medical Care Research and Review, 2026: 10775587261453724. Medical Care Research and Review can be contacted at: Sage…