Posted by Lindsey Rodriguez on Mar 15, 2012 | No Comments
Health care policy and health care reform are back in the news in a big way. The Supreme Court is poised to hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care overhaul. The Obama administration has just released guidelines for the operation of the state-based insurance exchanges that are the backbone of the law.
Gas prices have supplanted unemployment as the major attack line against President Barack Obama from Republican presidential candidates and party spokesmen and their media allies.
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Posted by Lindsey Rodriguez on Mar 05, 2012 | No Comments
We all need insurance. Or do we? Is it really worth paying out thousands of pounds to cover yourself for countless problems when you might never make a claim?
But the 54-year-old father of three faced a crisis last year when diagnosed with life-threatening head and neck cancer.
Baker borrowed 30,000 from fellow BBC radio presenter Chris Evans to tide him over.
The insurance industry, with its fondness for advertisements portraying terrible diseases and disasters, is indeed relentless in pursuit of new sales.
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Posted by Lindsey Rodriguez on Feb 24, 2012 | No Comments
Youve got to hand it to three insurance fraud suspects in South Carolina. The trio allegedly cooked up a scheme thats one of the strangest youll ever come across.
Gerald B. Hardin, 34, of Cayce, S.C., was arrested on charges in a six-count indictment alleging that Hardin and two collaborators hatched a more than $671,000 scheme in which one of the participants intentionally had a hand sawed off. That participant, who is not identified in court records, agreed to let a hand be cut off by the two others so they could reap claims payments from a home insurance policy and three accidental death-and-dismemberment policies, according to the indictment.
Jim Quiggle, a spokesman for the nonprofit Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, says: Theres no going back once you cut off your hand.
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Posted by on Feb 14, 2012 | No Comments
In many people’s residence some of the most valuable items that you could imagine are found not in the actual home, but in the garage instead. Huge power tools and workstations along with vehicles such as motor bikes, ATVs, go carts, golf carts, and many other items which are extremely valuable and somewhat hard to replace. There are also those people who may use their garage as a kind of get away or even an office. Some people set up televisions in their garage so that they are able to get away from the kids (and sometimes spouse) to enjoy the game or a particular movie. Other people may have set up shop in their garage and made it into a make-shift office. I Full post…
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