As the pace of rate increases has slowed, small business owners have grown increasingly optimistic about the future of their businesses and more satisfied with their commercial insurers. According to the JD Power 2026 U.S. “The fact that fewer businesses are experiencing insurer-initiated rate increases is certainly helping to improve customer…
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When insurance payments rival the mortgage: Inside the 2026 homeowners insurance squeeze. Homeownership seems to promise stability, with predictable monthly mortgage payments and protected assets. To learn more about how policyholders are handling this financial pressure, SoFi surveyed 520 homeowners around the nation on April 13, 2026.
The surviving son and mother of Abby Angelo are suing Jefferson County, its sheriff, and multiple employees of Wellpath, LLC for Angelo's death in custody in June 2021. Wellpath itself is also named as a "nominal defendant," and the plaintiffs' attorneys intend to collect damages from Jeffco or from Wellpath's insurer based on the company's alleged actions.
Around the end of last year, Ronmel Rangel, 63, began to feel a familiar discomfort in his lower abdomen. Twenty-five years earlier, while living in his native Venezuela, he had undergone surgery to repair a hernia on the right side of his groin. This time, Rangel was in the U.S. and lacked health insurance.
The U.S. and Mexico are the only countries out of 19 other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries where a substantial portion of the population lacks any form of health insurance. In the U.S., about 8 percent of the population, or 27 million people, are uninsured. And that is despite the U.S. has spent more on health care than any other nation.
OKLAHOMA CITY— More is being revealed about the thousands of lawsuits against State Farm and Allstate, alleging both insurance companies profited off of policyholders through underpaying and denying claims. JC Hallman, an investigative reporter with Oklahoma Watch, broke the initial story about State Farm hearings that would eventually lead to the…
These impacts already can be seen in dozens of state cuts to home- and community-based services for children with disabilities and a law in North Carolina that cut costs by eliminating coverage for 27,000 lawfully present children and pregnant women. The Congressional Budget Office now projects that 3 million children will lose coverage under Medicaid or…
The following information was released by the State of Delaware:. Outlines regulatory review process and use of outside experts as it evaluates Aquarian Capital's application. DOVER, DE The Delaware Department of Insurance is reviewing an application from Aquarian Capital LLC and its affiliates to acquire control of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company…
The following information was released by the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance:. To help renters of all ages and backgrounds, the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance is sharing information about the importance of renters insurance and being aware of their rights as renters. "Tennessee has renters across a broad spectrum from…
BOSTON FED PUBLISHES NEW DATA SERIES THAT GIVES MORE FREQUENT INSIGHTS INTO ECONOMIC GROWTH BY STATE
The following information was released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston:. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has begun publishing a new data series that combines indexes that track weekly economic developments in each of the 50 U.S. states. Boston Fed Principal Economist and Policy Advisor Danilo Leiva-Len is coauthor of Tracking Weekly State-level…
Luigi Mangione's trial on New York state murder and weapons charges over the 2024 killing of a health insurance CEO was postponed on Monday, after the 28- year-old Ivy League graduate pleaded guilty last week to separate federal charges. Mangione's lawyers cited his guilty plea to the federal stalking charges he faced in urging New York state Justice Gregory…
California voters are facing a number of significant races in the general election ranging from the high-profile contest to fill an open governor’ s seat to an initiative that could limit local tax increases. As many beleaguered homeowners know, California’ s property insurance market has been in a free fall since 2023, after State Farm— the dominant…
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara ordered insurance companies to preserve residential property insurance coverage for more than 64,000 policyholders affected by the Gann Fire after Governor Gavin Newsom issued an emergency declaration on Aug. 6. Under Lara's Sustainable Insurance Strategy, 11 insurance groups, including seven of the state's top…
DALLAS& WEST DES MOINES, Iowa—- Sammons Enterprises, Inc. and Sammons Financial Group are aware of public reports that attempt to link SEI and SFG to reported investigations regarding Guggenheim and certain of its affiliates. We are not affiliated with Guggenheim Capital LLC, Group 1001 Inc, Delaware Life Insurance Company, Clear Spring Life and Annuity Company,…
2026 AUG 17– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Fresh data on Cancer are presented in a new report. Financial support for this research came from NIH National Human Genome Research Institute. Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Yale University,“ The authors conducted 44 semistructured in-depth interviews…
2026 AUG 17– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. According to news reporting from Providence, Rhode Island, by NewsRx journalists, research stated,“ Vertical integration between Medicare Advantage plans and hospital providers is increasingly common, but little is known about how…
2026 AUG 17– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Current study results on Managed Care have been published. For more information on this research see: Improving Governance To Reduce Administrative Burden and Increase Funding for School-based Health Services. Public Performance& Management Review, 2026. Public Performance&…
According to news originating from Metropolitan Autonomous University by NewsRx correspondents, research stated,“ The proliferation of new forms of digital money, from cryptocurrencies and stablecoins to central bank digital currencies, has called into question established categories in monetary thought and returned the old question of what money is…
2026 AUG 17– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Economics Daily Report– Current study results on Investment have been published. According to news reporting out of Washington, District of Columbia, by NewsRx editors, the research stated,“ While the Phillips curve appeared quiescent after the Great Financial Crisis, inflation risk, as gauged from option…
