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Like tulips, health care spending reports pop up this time every year. Unlike tulips, they’ve been a small hard on the eyes lately. The Thomson Reuters Healthcare Spending Index for Private Insurance reports that the cost of health care for individuals covered by employer-sponsored health insurance rose 5.8 percent in 2010, a dip from the [...]

If you judge such madcap matrimonial movies as “The Hangover” and “Bridesmaids,” wedding party mischief, intentional or accidental substance abuse and brilliant ancient-fashioned cold feet are the major obstacles standing between a bride and groom and the altar. But a new study by the wedding insurance experts at Travelers paints a far uncommon picture of [...]

In 1985, I braced for my first Florida hurricane, a freaky late-season slider named Kate that roughed up Key West en route to the Florida Panhandle. For many residents of Mile Marker 0, passing hurricanes are occasion to hole up inside Sloppy Joe’s Saloon, a shuttered brick bunker that’s ridden out dozens of them. Once the storm passes, the [...]

What does the rising price of fuel have to do with your homeowners insurance or auto insurance rates? Most of us don’t have a clue, present company included. But thumbing through the highlights of a presentation by Atlanta actuary Gail Tverberg to the Casualty Actuarial Society in a recent Insurance Journal opened my eyes to [...]

This week, President Barack Obama’s landmark health care reform met its critics on the nation’s ultimate legal stage, the U.S. Supreme Court. As early as Friday afternoon, the justices may vote thumbs up or thumbs down on parts or all of the Affordable Care Act, though their choice is not expected to be made public [...]

With protesters from both sides of the health care reform debate gathered at its steps, the Supreme Court signaled “game on” Monday in the first of three days of hearings over constitutional challenges to President Barack Obama’s landmark Affordable Care Act. At issue in the opening session was whether the Supreme Court’s review of the [...]