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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, [...]
Advice on How to Get Your Medical Care Claims Paid
Monday, March 8th, 2010Longtime AFM reader, Don, volunteered to write a post detailing his experience in dealing with medical bills and insurance companies. It would be worth your time to read this. Thanks to Don for writing this. The financial consequences of a significant medical event. In February of 2004, my wife suffered a thrombophilic stroke, which is [...]
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 [...]
I Like Safeway’s Health Plan!
Friday, June 26th, 2009I read about this Kimberly Strassel column about Safeway’s health plan last week and meant to mention it but forgot. As recently as 2004, Safeway was suffocating under health-care costs growing at 10% a year. Mr. Burd, who had long been intellectually and politically drawn to the health-care issue, decided it was time to hit [...]
Health Care Tax B.S.
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Read this: Smokers, Drinkers to Carry Tax Burden? Democrats want to tax bad behavior by increasing taxes on cigarettes and beer. Okay, this is stupid. What about all the other “bad foods” out there: • Cookies and cakes • Hamburger Helper (come on, you know it’s junk food) • Hot dogs • White bread • [...]
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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