Insurance
Check Out Allan Roth’s Insurance Investing Challenge
Monday, October 12th, 2009Allan Roth sent me a link to a post he wrote detailing an insurance investing challenge between Allan and an insurance salesguy. Pretty interesting article (and comments).
Homeowners Insurance Renewal…Yuck!
Thursday, July 9th, 2009I received our homeowner’s insurance renewal this afternoon. Our new annual premium is…
$2,072!!!!!
Yes, I realize that we live on the Gulf Coast and that our area has been hit with two hurricanes in 3 years. But…we have never filed a claim. Never.
Looking through our old insurance renewals, I noticed a trend:
2005 – [...]
Colonial Penn – That’s Some Expensive Insurance!
Friday, February 8th, 2008You see their commercials n TV all the time. Colonial Penn pretty much monopolizes cable TV with their insurance dramas. One of their commercials cracks me up. It opens with a middle-aged guy sitting up in bed in the middle of the night. He can’t sleep because something is on his [...]
Dang it! My Car Insurance is Going Up
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Remember last summer wehn I wrote about how my insurance agent set me up with a new auto insurance policy and that by doing so, I was going to save $800 per year? If not, you can read about it here. The only difference that I could tell between the new policy and [...]
Should Doctors Be Paid to Prescribe Generic Drugs?
Thursday, January 24th, 2008From the front page of the Marketplace section of today’s Wall Street Journal:
Health plans are drawing scrutiny for offering financial incentives to entice doctors to prescribe cheaper generic medicines, including paying doctors $100 each time they switch a patient from a brand-name drug.
Pharmaceutical companies have long gone to great lengths to try to get doctors [...]
Protecting Your Ass(ets) Should You End Up In Court
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Cute title, eh?
Today’s Getting Going column, Protecting Your Assets in Case You Find Yourself in Court (Free), reminded me of my own story…
Several years ago I was involved in a fairly minor fender-bender. The lady that I ran into (the accident was my fault) got out of the car and was [...]
My Homeowners Insurance Renewal: OUCH!
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007I received the first draft of our homeowner’s insurance policy. Our premium went up to $1,823, a 19% increase over last year’s premium of $1,528. Oh, and they added a new 2% deductible for wind damage, which would put us on the hook for the first $4,652 in damages if our home received [...]