The Insurance Information Institute has deployed comprehensive awareness campaigns in Oklahoma and Wisconsin, underscoring the impact of lawsuit abuse on consumer costs and outlining the need for tort reform. By demonstrating the direct link between lawsuit abuse and increased insurance premiums, Triple-I aims to catalyze legislative action and…
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The following information was released by the America's Health Insurance Plans:. Just insuring a family here costs nearly $27,000 a year, enough to buy a car. The main cause: Prices are far higher in the U.S. for the same medical products and services, from surgeries to drugs. "
Georgia- based American Family Life Assurance Co., better known as Aflac, charged Virginians too much for individual and group accident and sickness insurance, according to an analysis by the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance. Initially, Aflac proposed increasing benefits on the four policies; however, the bureau found that alone to be…
The owner of Boulder dance studio Frequency Dance was accused of staging two break-ins, creating a fake business and lying to her insurance company to get more than $567,000 in payouts, according to an unsealed Colorado state grand jury indictment. In July 2023, Burdine reportedly hired two men to stage a break-in at the dance studio, then named Kinesis Dance, and…
The Insurance Information Institute has deployed comprehensive awareness campaigns in Oklahoma and Wisconsin, underscoring the impact of lawsuit abuse on consumer costs and outlining the need for tort reform. Triple-I’s legal system abuse awareness campaigns include digital displays across the Capitol Districts of Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
Protective Life Corporation a U.S. subsidiary of Daiichi Life Group, Inc., today announced the release of a new whitepaper based on proprietary research conducted by its principal subsidiary Protective Life Insurance Company in partnership with Greenwald Research. The findings reveal that significant knowledge gaps exist among both consumers and…
kWh Analytics, a leader in underwriting the energy transition through its licensed insurance subsidiary, Solar Energy Insurance Services, today announced a data-sharing pilot program to reward renewable energy assets for extreme weather mitigation efforts. kWh Analytics is expanding its risk modeling capabilities by leveraging data from solar…
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Lacey Cassidy usually wouldn't think twice about running around with her kids, trying a new activity or rushing through errands. That's because Cassidy, who lives just outside Reading, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two young children, is newly uninsured.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is proposing a $4.9 billion budget for the next fiscal year, a 2% increase despite a big jump in health care costs and a drop in federal funding. Wu called this a "difficult moment" for the city in a letter Monday to the Boston City Council outlining her fiscal 2027 budget. Perhaps the biggest pressure on the budget: a 20% health insurance rate…
2026 APR 06– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Fresh data on autism are presented in a new report. According to news originating from the Department of Pediatrics by NewsRx correspondents, research stated,“ There continue to be disparities in access to quality services that vary from the individual to the policy level.”.
2026 APR 06– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– New research on Health and Medicine is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated,“ Disparities in health care utilization exist, particularly among children in socially disadvantaged…
How to find a gas credit card that actually pays off in 2026. The average American household spends over $2,400 a year on gas, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's $201 a month just on gas.
Close to 1,000 people are treated in U.S. emergency departments each day for dog bite injuries. It reflects a trend that has been climbing steadily: national dog bite-related emergency department visits rose 15% between 2018 and 2023, with California up 30% and Florida up 25% over the same period. In 2024, U.S. insurers paid out a record $1.57 billion in…
2026 APR 06– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily– Investigators publish new report on Insurance. The literature argues that the guaranteed availability of health insurance introduced by the Affordable Care Act in the USA in 2010 could reduce this barrier to entrepreneurship and thereby increase entrepreneurial activity.”.
A man from St. Louis County on Monday admitted committing disability fraud and pandemic loan fraud totaling $637,000. Preston Randall, 62, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to five counts of wire fraud, two counts of theft of government property and one count of concealment from the U.S. Social Security Administration. Randall also fraudulently…
American Integrity Insurance Group, Inc., a Tampa- based property and casualty insurance holding company and one of Florida’ s leading providers of residential property insurance, today announced the appointment of Brian Foley as Chief Financial Officer, effective April 6, 2026. Mr. Foley succeeds Ben Lurie, who will transition to a consulting role and…
This story is co-published with KFF Health News. Robin Carlton pays about $650 a month for a plan on the Missouri health insurance exchange that covers him and his two teenage kids. But the self-employed St. Louis property manager isn't in any hurry to investigate a new type of coverage that might be cheaper than his marketplace plan: farm bureau health plans.
In the months before his pal Eric Adams became mayor and made him chief of staff, Brooklyn attorney Frank Carone was hustling to build up a company he'd created to provide cash advances to doctors awaiting potentially lucrative insurance payouts in no-fault car accident cases. Those on board included his longtime friend, Zhan "Johnny" Petrosyants, and two of…
As a result, Aflac— also known as American Family Life Assurance Co.— is cutting premium rates on 16 different policies by as much as 35%, its filings with the bureau show. In addition, Aflac agreed to pay a $64,000 fine to settle the matter. In the review, bureau staff checked six specific Aflac policies that offered supplement coverage when policyholders suffer…
