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• FTC says blacks and Hispanics pay more when credit is used to set insurance prices

  Published: July 24, 2007, 4:11 pm

  Tags: Credit, Insurance

  credit scoring to price auto insurance: The Federal Trade Commission said today that, as a result, African Americans and Hispanics will pay more for coverage. The FTC report (read it here) also supports an insurance industry claim: that credit scores are accurate predictors of the claims consumers will file. But in a release accompanying the

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• Tips on long-term care insurance

  Published: July 18, 2007, 12:37 pm

  Tags: Insurance

  not purchase long-term care insurance. 3. Research individual insurance companies to see whether they have a history of raising rates for long-term care coverage. Check with your state insurance department to learn how your state regulates rate increases. 4. Check with your financial advisor or accountant for guidance on whether long-term

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• YouTube Presidential Debate features cancer question

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:00 am

  Tags: Breast, Campaign, Cancer, Care, Cnn, Debate, Health, History, Insurance, Medical, Presidential, Question, Video, Youtube

  Filed under: Breast Cancer, Events, Politics, Daily newsOn July 23, a milestone in presidential campaign history was delivered when Democratic presidential candidates fielded questions sent in via YouTube, a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view, and share video clips. On September 17, Republican candidates will take part in

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• Car Insurance Premiums to Soar: thanks to uninsured drivers

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:09 pm

  Tags: Insurance, Auto Insurance

  ‘no win, no fee’ insurance claims, crashes caused by uninsured drivers and the ever increasing cost of new cars, drivers are paying a record amount for their insurance premiums. Premiums have more than doubled in the last 13 years. Drivers have seen a rise of 8% in the last 12 months and between April and June of this year a rise of

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• No Claims Bonus Protection

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:05 pm

  Tags: Insurance, Auto Insurance

  bonus in order to keep out insurance premiums down. Some of us pay extra on our premiums to protect it. There can be times when we have a small accident and some of us are left wondering whether to claim or not to claim on our insurance or just to pay out of our own pocket. There are many companies which offer a no claims bonus protection,

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• Battling cancer AND your insurance company, NY Times cancer feature

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:55 am

  Tags: Health Insurance, Healthinsurance, Pancreatic Cancer, Pancreaticcancer, Whipple

  cancer ... and his health insurance company. Upon his diagnosis, Hendrickson received relatively good news, that his pancreatic cancer was operable and that such an operation would increase his survival greatly. However, he also received bad news. His insurance company said they would only pay for the surgery, the highly-complex Whipple

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• Driving on the Continent: What you need

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:36 am

  Tags: Insurance, Auto Insurance

  understand exactly what insurance cover is required when travelling on the Continent. Research from Marks & Spencer Money shows that only a third of people were insured if their car was pranged or stolen whilst on the continent and only one in five were covered if they broke down. Extra Cover is required with most insurance companies.

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• Big cars, big bills Luxury doesn't come cheap

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:54 am

  Tags: Bmw 3 Series, Acura Tsx, Lexus Es, Mercedes C Class, Infiniti G35, Insurance Institute For Highway Safety, Repair Bills, Luxury Cars

  A recent survey by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has promulgated the fact that the repair bills could be as high as $14,000 in case of some luxury vehicles involved in low-speed crashes of 3 to 6 miles per hour. The institutes carried out a series of four low-speed crashes on 11 2007 luxury vehicles. The repair bill of

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• What Is Gap Insurance? Who Needs It And Who Does Not? - A Graphical Interpretation

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:29 am

  Tags: Interesting Numbers, Personal Finance, Cars, Insurance

  related questions on gap insurance; for example, “Do you need gap insurance on used cars?”, “Do you need gap insurance on leased cars?”, “In what other situations is this insurance not necessary?”, etc. In this post, we will try to visualize the idea of gap insurance with the help of some graphs, and then

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• Samsung to receive insurance payout for power outage damage

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:06 am

  Tags: Blackout, Flash Memory, Flashmemory, Insurance, Nand, Power Outage, Poweroutage, Samsung

  is now expected to "get insurance payments from a local insurer for the damage received during Friday's power outage." Reportedly, the firm's contract with Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance will cover the damage, which is currently estimated to be somewhere near $40 million. Of note, the exact cause of the outage is still unknown, and it

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• Trip and Travel Insurance

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Travel, Insurance

  is it?Travel insurance is a policy that will protect you if your vacation is interrupted, and in some cases if you have to cancel your vacation. The insurance can be purchased from a variety of companies, including the cruise lines.What does it do for me?Depending on the policy purchased, travel insurance can cover many things including,

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• President Bush should Veto State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP)

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:40 pm

  Tags: News, Insurance, Health Insurance

  (State Children's Health Insurance Program), the congress did initially create the program to cover children whose parents were doing rather well to qualify for the Medicaid but not that well to buy their very own insurance. Now they are looking to extend the coverage to these families earning up to 300% of the federal poverty level which is

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• Vegetarians get lower life insurance premiums: Meat eaters do not get discount

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:22 pm

  Tags: Insurance, Life Insurance, Health Insurance

  there is a new life insurance policy which has been recently launched which offers lower premiums, this is great news because it looks like the more you eat healthily the more you will benefit in paying lower premium insurances rates. A company called Animal Friends Insurance have said that if you did not eat meat you would qualify for a

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• NatWest Denies Breast Cancer Sufferer an Insurance Payout

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:06 pm

  Tags: News, Insurance, Health Insurance

  cancer has been denied insurance payout as she tried to rebuild her life after the terrible breast cancer due to an omission in her policy. Jilly had 70,000 of cover of which she claimed for and was totally confident that it would pay out but this was not to be. She was diagnosed with cancerous cells confined to ducts in her breast which

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• UK drivers pay a staggering 2.36 billion in excess for car insurance each year

  Published: August 8, 2007, 7:38 am

  Tags: Insurance, Auto Insurance

  less than 100 on your car insurance premium may end up costing you more than ten times the amount in an event of a claim. We could sit here all day debating this, you can read about this in full at Fair Investments Company who have an in depth look into this report. How much is your car insurance access? Written by Mark for Product ReviewsIn

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