Insurance
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012Car shopping? If so, Insure.com’s list of 20 least and most expensive cars to insure might be something you will want to read. Their list of the 20 least expensive cars to insure: 1. Toyota Sienna LE: $1,111 2. Toyota Sienna 4 cyl: $1,114 3. Jeep Patriot Sport: $1,116 4. Jeep Compass Sport: $1,118 5. [...]
How Much More Expensive (Premium-Wise) is Permanent Insurance Than Term Insurance?
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011I read this in The Ultimate Financial Plan: Balancing Your Money and Life* in the chapter on life insurance: “Although the benefits of permanent life insurance exist, the costs must also be weighed. I recently replaced one of my term life insurance policies with a new policy bearing a $1 million death benefit and an [...]
Life Insurance Ownership at a 50-Year Low
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010The poor economy has led Americans to cut corners on their life insurance—at levels not seen in half a century, according to a new study. Only 44% of U.S. households have individual life insurance, according to the latest Trends in Life Insurance Ownership, a study conducted every six years by Limra, the investment research company. [...]
A Few Tips for Saving Money on Car Insurance When You Have a Teen Driver
Thursday, August 12th, 2010The other day I called our insurance company with a question about our policy. While I had the agent on the phone, I asked them to give me an idea of what our insurance rate would be once our oldest son starts driving (about a year from now). After asking me a few routine questions, [...]
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 mind. He gets up [...]
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