Taking care of your health is never a luxury. Even if you lose your job or your health insurance, it’s important to keep taking your medicine and get routine care. Here are some tips from the Pennsylvania Medical Society’s Institute for Good Medicine.

Keep taking your prescribed medications. But ask your doctor about the possibility a cheaper  generic option or prescription drug […]

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Auto insurance can take a big bite out of many budgets. So it’s not surprising when consumers switch carriers to take advantage of lower premiums. Unfortunately, the rate you ultimately pay may be significantly higher than the low quote you initially receive–and the increase could be the result of wrong information.
“I went to the trouble […]

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When you buy car insurance, it makes sense to be honest. Because of centralized databases, any insurer can quickly discover your history of accidents and traffic convictions. However, it’s up to you to make sure the information on file about you is both accurate and complete. Otherwise, your insurance carrier will charge you more than […]

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Saving money is a priority for many consumers these days. But the New York City-based Insurance Information Institute advises thinking twice about reducing insurance coverage. Here’s what the III describes as the six biggest insurance mistakes:

Insuring a home for its real estate value rather than the cost of rebuilding.Because the value of real estate has declined in […]

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In these days of economic uncertainty and corporate bankruptcies, that ominous call to the human resources office can come to practically any of us at any time. In an instant, everything changes. And it takes a cool head and cautious action to keep a bad situation from becoming worse.
Take your time signing an exit […]

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Frank Progl thinks an educated consumer is a smart consumer. So he can’t understand why his dental insurance carrier is so resistant to his efforts to educate himself. “Try as I may, I can’t get the insurance company to provide the information I request,” he explained.
Progl just wants a list of usual, customary and reasonable […]

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Nothing is so lovely as a tree—or so likely to cause disputes between otherwise happy neighbors. “My neighbor’s trees hang over my yard, fence and house. I cut them back, but then he throws the clippings back on my side,” Michael Johnson of New York City explained. “Who’s really responsible?”
Experts say few homeowners understand the […]

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When a storm knocks down a tree, homeowners tend to ask the same question: Who is responsible for the damage to my house/car/patio furniture? Carollee Cabot, an insurance specialist at the Rollins Agency Inc. in suburban New York City, said storm damage is typically covered by homeowners’ insurance policies. However, the specifics of coverage vary.

Some […]

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Five Things You Should Know About Your Insurance Company
by Gwen Moran
The constants of the financial world are not quite as permanent as we all thought. Storied Wall Street institutions like Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns are going or gone. And last week the insurance giant American International Group (AIG) needed an […]

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How healthy is the insurance industry? Asa Aarons shares his insight in Rest Insured, a story in Newsweek and offers more advice about insurance here.

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