Interest rates remain elevated, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury lingering close to 1% higher than its September 2024 low. At January’s close, yields settled in the 4.5% range, down from mid-January’s 4.79% peak, but still considered high by recent standards.1...
The vast majority of the headlines you'll see each fall about health insurance premium changes are formajor medicalhealth insurance that people buy in the individual/family market (ie, non-group plans), and that are compliant with theAffordable Care Act(ACA). That can be in thehealth insuranc...
Auto insurers are going to have choices like this to make. Auto insurance, coincidentally, is also a 120-year-old “established” industry, based around a policy transaction. Will insurers continue to provide traditional insurance in traditional ways until they are forced down a dead-end path, ...
because our insurance really sucks and exponentially so with each passing year. we thought surely brian's $7000 dollar kidney stone would clear out our deductible, but apparently there's still an individual deductible.i've just spoken with her doctor and canceled the appointment and we've ...
A major insurance company analyzes sales performance daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly, comparing current figures with last year’s performance and this year’s goals. The input information is fed into 15 satellite computers at 15 regional headquarters. After processing the sales data (a complex ...
Who knew that Wallace was the “Silver Capital of the World” – some $138 billion worth taken out of these mines –$20 billion of metals just last year (did I hear that right?) – 1 million ounces of silver. In the 1960s, incredulously, Wallace was the “richest little city” in ...
So essentially, you get a good price for one year, your employees can claim more, the insurance company can charge more during the second and third year then if you did not switch suppliers. The Benefit Shopping Trap is a trademark of Benefits Interface, Inc....
The article informs that mutual fund offering firm ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. Ltd. has been ranked as the best fund house in a survey conducted by the journal. It mentions that the ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund has changed its strategy in the year 2008 after the global economic crises...
One of these is global budgets that will reimburse hospitals a fixed amount from local public-insurance funds (city, county, or province, depending on the region) every year. Global budgets are set with an eye toward controlling costs, so hospitals will have an even greate...
Can I switch broadband mid-contract? If you want to change broadband service before the initial term of your contract is up, you'll likely have to pay an exit fee. This will often be fairly substantial and will likely cancel out any savings you'd make by switching early. ...