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Time for a national insurance program to cope with natural disasters? (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News) Va. General Assembly votes to ban mandatory health insurance coverage (Washington Post) Time for a national insurance program to cope with natural disasters? (The Christian Science Monitor) Interstate health insurance fails (Tacoma News Tribune) Swiss Re puts Chile quake insurance cost at $4-7BN (AP via Yahoo! News) Guidewire Wins Insurance Canada.ca's 'Best In Class Technology Provider - Insurer Solutions' Award (PropertyandCasualty.com) Kinsale Capital Group, Ltd. Launches New U.S. Excess And Surplus Lines Insurance Company (PropertyandCasualty.com) Insurance agents make donation to MS (Reno Gazette-Journal) Social insurance a heavy burden for Chinese (People's Daily) Mistargeted dog insurance law is another insult to the law-abiders (Daily Mirror)
Given that so many Americans live in areas that have been prone to natural disasters – hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados – is it time for the federal government to intercede to help states and property owners obtain more reasonable castastrophic insurance?
RICHMOND -- Virginia's General Assembly is the first in the nation to approve legislation that bucks federal health care reforms by banning mandatory health insurance coverage.
Advocates of legislation to create a national insurance program say it's better to plan ahead than do a bailout after a natural disaster. Critics say it would amount to a subsidy for owners of coastal mansions and encourage people to live in places they shouldn't.
A bill giving Washington consumers an opportunity to buy health insurance from other states died in the Legislature this year under pressure from advocates for mental health equality, massage therapists and others.
Swiss Reinsurance Co. said Wednesday that the strong earthquake in Chile last month will cost the insurance industry $4-7 billion, an estimate shared by its Germany-based rival Munich Re AG.
Guidewire Software, a leading provider of flexible core systems to property/casualty insurers, recently announced that it has won an Insurance Canada.ca Technology Award (ICTA)
Kinsale Capital Group, Ltd. ("Kinsale") recently announced the formation of Kinsale Insurance Company, Inc. ("KIC"), a specialty insurance operation based in Richmond, VA. KIC carries a rating of A- (Excellent) VII from A.M. Best Company. KIC underwrites commercial property/casualty and professional liability lines within the excess and surplus lines segment in 31 states/District of Columbia and ...
The Independent Insurance Agents of Northern Nevada donated $10,000 to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Nevada office to help with services to local people.
Chinese people have to pay 40 percent or in some areas even 50 percent of their salary to buy social insurance by law, much higher than the level of most countries in the world, Bai Chongen, an economist from Tsinghua University found in his latest research, the Xinmin Evening News reported. In the Chinese mainland, the proportion paid for social insurance to the total salary is twice the ...
The first person I thought of when I heard dog-owners were going to be forced to take out insurance was Peter Andre.