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For Health Apps, Questions Over Privacy and Efficacy

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Yves here. Yours truly is a strong-form believer in privacy, particularly about sensitive data like health information, to the degree that I inconvenience myself regarding how I deal with my insurer so that they do not have access or even the right to obtain my medical test results. Most people are not that stringent. Even…

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EFG Asset Management Americas Corp. increased its stake in NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 28.3% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 121,909 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 26,882 shares during…

The stock market has experienced its most significant drop since the pandemic, with the S&P 500 falling roughly 9% between March 31 and April 4 in a tariff-fueled sell-off. Market experts suggest that the recovery may differ from the pandemic, where the Federal Reserve’s quick intervention through interest rate cuts alleviated some economic strain. Renaissance…

The hearing into whether State Farm General can implement a major rate hike to restore its financial stability is finished– but consumers won't know the answer for weeks. Though Thursday marked the last day of the hearing, the three parties involved– State Farm General, the California Department of Insurance and the consumer advocacy group Consumer Watchdog–…

“Mangione Says U.S. Bid to Execute Him Is an Instagram Stunt; Lawyers for the man accused of killing a health insurance executive in Manhattan said the attorney general was putting ‘partisan politics over justice’”: Benjamin Weiser and Hurubie Meko of The New York Times have this report.

The Trump administration’s EPA has put the home insurance industry, home mortgage industry, real estate industry, and individual homeownership on notice that the rules are changing against their best interests. Already, before these negativePreview (opens in a new tab) changes to EPA policy, radical climate change has forced insurance companies to eliminate home coverage in […]…

In this decision the Court of Appeals addresses what it describes as a "complicated statutory scheme" to provide paid firefighters employed by fire departments outside the City of New York who become disabled in the course of performing their duties disability benefits. Such firefighters may receive benefits from one or mor different sources: their local governmental employer, the…

Some Americans who rely on Medicaid to pay for their health care don’t realize their insurance is funded by that very program, which congressional Republicans are looking to shrink. One reason is that state programs aren’t always called “Medicaid.” Many states have rebranded their programs with consumer-friendly names such as SoonerCare in Oklahoma, Apple Health […]

Community bankers’ confidence in future business conditions is decreasing, according to the Community Bank Sentiment Index’s (CBSI) first quarter 2025 results.© Shutterstock The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS), a national organization of financial regulators, polls community banks nationwide regarding seven economic components. A score above 100 is considered a…

Insurance group the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) weighed in on proposed Texas legislation that would change its insurance marketplace recently, saying the state can improve the insurance sector without abandoning a market-based approach. © Shutterstock In a statement, APCIA vice president of state government relations Scot Kibbe, said Texas SB 1643…

Legislation introduced by U.S. Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) would modernize the taxation of debt investments held by life insurers, officials said. © Shutterstock The legislation, the Secure Family Futures Act, would repeal the current capital tax treatment of those investments, like bonds, and apply ordinary tax treatment to them, the lawmakers’ […] The…

A group of US senators on Friday urged the government’s markets corruption watchdog to investigate whether President Donald Trump or White House insiders broke securities laws ahead of his dramatic reversal on global tariffs.

Now that the inflation data for March in Colombia are known, the debate in the local market is beginning to focus on what the Banco de la República should do in its next meeting, regarding the future of interest rates, given that for some the conditions are already being configured for the return of cuts in this reference. This is the case of JP Morgan, the largest…

Because June 1 falls on a Sunday this year, June’ s check will actually be issued on May 30. Beneficiaries who receive SSI and Social Security Disability Insurance, or who have received Social Security before May 1997 will also see a change in their payment for May. Those recipients are typically paid on the third day of each month, but because May 3 falls on a Saturday,…