As Florida braces for Hurricane Ian’s landfall, a range of companies — from providers of rebuilding supplies to food retailers and parts of the insurance sector — will likely feel the impact.

Being part of the American financial system has not always been easy, but in more recent years the number of unbanked citizens, those living without a checking or savings account or no credit union has slowly but surely been coming down.

Getting the best price on home insurance, without sacrificing the quality of coverage, may be easier with a basic understanding of how insurance companies calculate your premium.

Approximately nine weeks after record rainfall caused unusual urban flooding in eastern Missouri, Gov. Mike Parson announced more than $85 million in government recovery assistance was provided to residents and businesses.

For the next few months, New Englanders face the greatest risk of dangerous and damaging weather.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, the largest health insurer in the state, cleared the latest hurdle in its plan to expand into the health care business late last week when the state Department of Banking and Insurance gave preliminary approval to change its corporate charter.

Pennsylvanians with health insurance through the Affordable Care Act will see an average monthly premium increase of 5.5% starting in January, an increase held down by federal subsidies that were extended in August.

When Massachusetts voters head to the polls in November, they’ ll get the chance to settle an arcane dispute that could upend the dental industry. But take a look at who has funded this fight so far and something curious emerges: a one-on-one slugfest between orthodontist Mouhab Rizkallah and insurer Delta Dental of Massachusetts. This year, roughly 40 dentists…

Medically tailored meals are one of many new programs proposed Tuesday by the Biden administration to reduce hunger and diet-related diseases.

Republicans are staying vague on health policy in the midterms. Republicans have spent plenty of elections promising to ditch Obamacare and overhaul the U.S. health-care system. Health care has repeatedly shown to be a toxic issue for Republicans.

The current Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has also made it clear that this Volckerian catechism must be complied with, and has warned that he will continue to raise rates as much as necessary to put inflation back in the cage it should never have left, and to which they had partly contributed to fatten in recent years with decisions of excessive…

The real estate sector is the one that has been most affected in the U.S. stock market by the 75 basis point increase in interest rates and the pessimistic guidance for the rest of the year announced on Tuesday by the Federal Reserve, due to the fact that the restrictive monetary policy discourages the demand for housing. Of the 11 sectors of the U.S. stock index, it is…

The Centene Corporation headquarters. Photo from Google Maps.Texas became at least the 12th state to settle potential claims that healthcare giant Centene defrauded that state’s Medicaid program, state Attorney General Ken Paxton announced earlier this week. The deal will pay the Lone Star State $166 million to release it from claims similar to those first alleged in Ohio in…

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PROVIDENCE— Since coming out of retirement to be the interim CEO and president of Lifespan Corp., Arthur Sampson has been dreading what he says is inevitably coming down the pike: the backlog of sick patients who did not have their tests and screenings done during the pandemic. Like Lifespan, hospitals across Rhode Island are strapped due to the labor shortage…

There are several potential benefits to the retirement landscape in the United States that could come from the passage of the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0), including getting more workers involved in actively saving for retirement and reducing risk for workers broadly as time goes on. These are some of the perspectives shared by Automatic Data Processing,…

Last month, the first in a two-part series on retirement focused on how to plan for protecting the farm and your family in retirement. In this second part, we’ ll cover financial planning before and during retirement, and how the practice can help you achieve your overall farm succession plan and prevent you from running out of liquid assets during retirement or…

Americans have varying opinions in terms of the country’s eroding healthcare system following a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Results of the poll show that fewer than half of Americans are satisfied with the current state of the healthcare system. Further indicators revealed that just about 12% of surveyed […]

Republicans have never liked Social Security and Medicare, and opposed the creation of both. If given the opportunity, they would happily destroy both.The following is from Dean Obeidallah at MSNBC.com:President Joe Biden last week slammed two Republican senators for proposing to end Social Security and Medicare as we know it. First, Biden renewed his attacks on Florida’s Rick…