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Vince Chasteen has been a smoker for 41 years and worked for the city of Fort Worth, Texas, for 30. He doesn’t like the smell of talk down the hall in human resources that could force him and other city-employed smokers to point out between their problem and their job. “I reckon it’s an infringement [...]

The weather-associated wreckage and loss of life across the Midwest last weekend serves as yet another wake-up call to make sure your homeowners insurance can handle whatever risks might wander down your block. If you’re like most, you’ve never really read your policy. Instead, you probably sat bobble head-like across the desk as your insurance [...]

Plotting a June wedding? Don’t forget to assure it! According to the Insurance Information Institute, by the time you’ve finished paying for the flowers, rings, parties and pictures, the mean American wedding costs $16,000. That means you’ve likely bet $3,000-$6,000 in nonrefundable deposits that your huge day will come off as plotted. If there’s a [...]

When a tornado approaches, wise homeowners take cover. But lately, it’s been the homeowners insurance companies that are sheltering themselves from costly weather-associated claims, sticking homeowners and taxpayers with the bill, according to the Consumer Federation of America, or CFA. “Insurance companies have significantly and methodically decreased their financial responsibility for weather catastrophes like hurricanes, [...]

When gas prices go up as they have lately, auto accidents go down, according to a new study by Mississippi State’s Social Science Research Center in print in the Journal of Safety Research and Accident Analysis and Prevention. But chances are any money you might save on your auto insurance will just flow back into your gas tank. [...]

While Americans spend far more than other industrialized nations on health care, our return on that oversize investment, or ROI, is downright embarrassing. A new report from the global Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development once again confirms that spending nearly four times the median mean of most of the other 34 OECD nations on [...]