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• CoOportunity Health snagged by shifting insurance landscape - The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines

  01-01-2015 20:39 via thegazette.com
  
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  CoOportunity Health snagged by shifting insurance landscape
  The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
  When Iowa's insurance commissioner announced last week it would take control of the management of the not-for-profit insurance company CoOportunity Health due to financial challenges, it was another step in a series of events that created a perfect ...
  NASHCO issues statement on taking over of Iowa Insurance Division by ...News-Medical.net
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• View from the trenches: Insurance broker assesses status of ACA and Nevada ... - Las Vegas Sun

  01-01-2015 20:34 via lasvegassun.com
  View from the trenches: Insurance broker assesses status of ACA and Nevada ...
  Las Vegas Sun
  The Las Vegas health insurance broker was tireless in his efforts to aid Nevadans during last year's disastrous rollout of Nevada Health Link, the online insurance marketplace selling health care plans offered under the Affordable Care Act. Casale ...
  
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• Countries where Britons are most likely to need their insurance revealed - Daily Mail

  01-01-2015 18:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  Countries where Britons are most likely to need their insurance revealed
  Daily Mail
  Nearly a third of British tourists will travel to India without insurance, even though it one of the long-haul destinations where they are most likely to run into problems. Twenty-nine per cent of Britons will fail to take out insurance for India trips ...
  British holidaymakers failing to take out sufficient travel insurance on trips ...This is Money
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• AARP Drivers Course gives seniors insurance discount - The Tennessean

  01-01-2015 15:17 via tennessean.com
  
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  AARP Drivers Course gives seniors insurance discount
  The Tennessean
  Drivers ages 50 and older could get a discount on their car insurance by taking a refresher course. The Brentwood Library hosts two AARP Drivers Courses this month. Seniors — both AARP members and non-members — will discuss good driving habits, ...
  
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• Turkey's insurance sector posts 6.4 pct growth - www.worldbulletin.net

  01-01-2015 12:46 via worldbulletin.net
  
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  Turkey's insurance sector posts 6.4 pct growth
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  Although the Turkish economy's growth rate stood at 2.8 percent in the first nine months, the insurance sector showed a major increase. Nearly 20 billion lira ($8.6 billion) of premium production was related to types of insurance other than life ...
  2014 proves lucrative for Turkey's insurance sectorDaily Sabah
  
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• Feds launch ag insurance program to help specialty farmers - vtdigger.org

  01-01-2015 12:15 via vtdigger.org
  
  Feds launch ag insurance program to help specialty farmers
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  Peter Welch, I-Vt., inserted language in the 2014 Farm Bill that enhances the federal agricultural insurance program known as the Noninsured Crop Disaster Program (NAP) and allows farmers who grow fruits, vegetables and other specialty crops to receive ...
  
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• Life Insurance Company of the Southwest Joins the Federal Home Loan Bank of ... - vtdigger.org

  01-01-2015 10:52 via vtdigger.org
  Life Insurance Company of the Southwest Joins the Federal Home Loan Bank of ...
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  Addison, Texas – The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) is pleased to announce that Life Insurance Company of the Southwest, has joined its cooperative. The insurance company, with offices in Addison, Texas, and Montpelier, Vermont, ...
  
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• Oakdale woman charged with insurance fraud - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

  01-01-2015 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  Oakdale woman charged with insurance fraud
  Pittsburgh Post Gazette
  On June 23, 2013, the grand jury said, Andrea Forsythe, 26, set fire to a rental house on McVey Street in the town of Sturgeon where she'd been living to collect on a Nationwide insurance claim she had bought covering the contents of the house, its use ...
  
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• No Safety in These Numbers

  01-01-2015 06:00
  While it feels like we’ve been talking about Cyber Liability cover for years now, the fact is, in relative terms it's still new territory for insurers. Appropriate pricing is best determined through solid analysis of a variety of data, and underwriters haven't yet been able to gather enough history on...
  
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• J.D. Power Survey Reveals Top 3 Things Risk Managers Want from Their Brokers

  01-01-2015 06:00
  Risk managers for large commercial businesses are “significantly more satisfied” when 11 key performance indicators (KPIs) are met by brokers and insurers, according to the inaugural 2014 Large Commercial Insurers Report from J.D. Power and RIMS, released Dec. 10.
  
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• Is Insurance Affordable? Ask the FIO

  01-01-2015 06:00
  When Congress created the Federal Insurance Office in 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, it asked the new agency to monitor whether traditionally underserved consumers, communities, minorities, andlow- and moderate-income persons have access to affordable insurance products in all lines except health insurance.
  
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• Insurance is Not a Commodity

  01-01-2015 06:00
  Happy 2015! You know what that means—it's time for our annual New Year's Resolution. (Yes, singular.)
  
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• Go Directly to Jail

  01-01-2015 06:00
  Although Congressmen write law, they are not above it. Former Arizona Congressman Richard Renzi learned this lesson when he was convicted on charges of conspiracy, honest-services fraud, extortion, money laundering, making false statements to insurance regulators, and racketeering. In U.S. v. Renzi, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal was asked...
  
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• Energy Surge: Plugging in to Opportunity

  01-01-2015 06:00
  Brokers take advantage of business created by the renewable-energy market.
  
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• 5 Business Property Coverage Mistakes

  01-01-2015 06:00
  Brokers strive to do a great job for their clients, but sometimes overlook certain coverages. This could lead to a “failure to recommend” claim, and increased liability for the agent or broker in case of a loss.
  
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• Insurance company will decide who pays in parking lot accident - Richmond.com

  01-01-2015 05:08 via richmond.com
  
  Insurance company will decide who pays in parking lot accident
  Richmond.com
  QUESTION: I recently got into a car accident in a gas station parking lot. The cop said that the other party was at fault. When I make my claim to my insurance company, how do they determine who pays — my insurance or the other party that was at fault?
  
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• Fallen trees covered under most home insurance policies - KRCRTV.COM

  01-01-2015 03:52 via krcrtv.com
  
  Fallen trees covered under most home insurance policies
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  Insurance agents say that damage from a fallen tree would be covered because it's considered a falling object. "The damage done by a tree would be covered under your homeowners policy, and it's for falling object," said Curtis Byron, owner of Siskiyou ...
  
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• Still time to enroll for 2015 health insurance - KXII-TV

  01-01-2015 03:06 via kxii.com
  
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  Still time to enroll for 2015 health insurance
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  TEXOMA From now until January 15th, you can enroll for coverage that will start February 1st. "January 16th and after that will push your coverage start date to march 1st," Marketplace Navigator Wendi Whipkey said. Whipkey says the deadline to sign up ...
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• Obamacare employer insurance mandate kicks in Jan. 1 - Washington Times

  01-01-2015 02:40 via washingtontimes.com
  Obamacare employer insurance mandate kicks in Jan. 1
  Washington Times
  Obamacare's insurance mandate on employers will quietly take effect for large companies Thursday, one year later than planned after a pair of unilateral delays fed into Republican claims the White House plays fast and loose with the implementation of ...
  
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• Westminster man charged with filing false insurance claims for $800000 - Anderson Independent Mail

  01-01-2015 00:59 via independentmail.com
  
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  Westminster man charged with filing false insurance claims for $800000
  Anderson Independent Mail
  WALHALLA - A Westminster man is charged with filing false insurance claims totaling $800,000. Timothy Mark Mize, 54, of Earles Grove Road was charged late Tuesday with three counts of filing false insurance claims, each greater than $10,000, on ...
  
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• CoOpportunity Health snagged by shifting insurance landscape - KCRG

  01-01-2015 00:50 via kcrg.com
  
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  CoOpportunity Health snagged by shifting insurance landscape
  KCRG
  DES MOINES — When Iowa's insurance commissioner announced last week it would take control of the management of the not-for-profit insurance company CoOpportunity Health due to financial challenges, it was another step in a series of events that ...
  
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• UPDATE: Insurance concerns rise after 2 fires at Birmingham apartments - Alabama's News Leader

  01-01-2015 00:22 via abc3340.com
  
  UPDATE: Insurance concerns rise after 2 fires at Birmingham apartments
  Alabama's News Leader
  Local State Farm Insurance Agent Beth Slaughter says many people mistakenly believe their apartments will automatically cover personal property and liability. However, that's not the case. Slaughter contends most insurance policies will cover renters' ...
  
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• Quiet hurricane seasons mean lower insurance rates for central Florida - WFTV Orlando

  01-01-2015 00:15 via wftv.com
  
  Quiet hurricane seasons mean lower insurance rates for central Florida
  WFTV Orlando
  It's been a more than a decade since four powerful hurricanes devastated central Florida. A lot of residents are still paying higher insurance rates as a result of the storms. Channel 9's Jeff Deal learned that those residents could be getting a break ...
  
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• No Health Insurance? Penalties To Rise In 2015 - CBS Local

  01-01-2015 00:05 via pittsburgh.cbslocal.com
  
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  No Health Insurance? Penalties To Rise In 2015
  CBS Local
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Most Americans have health insurance through their employers or through government programs like Medicare for seniors and Medicaid and Healthy PA for those with lower incomes. But that's not everyone, two health care experts ...
  
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