In an economy like this, Californians are relying on the insurance commissioner to keep premiums as low as possible, but Commissioner Poizner refused to hold a hearing to investigate rate hikes that will affect more than 2.5 million homeowners. We reviewed the proposed rate increases and concluded...
Accidental death rider:In the event of an accident, this rider increases the death benefit. Children’s term insurance rider:This offers a death benefit for a child until they reach adulthood. Chronic illness rider:If you are diagnosed with a recognized chronic illness or long-term disability wh...
Consumer groups on Friday criticized the insurance department for allowing the increases to go through."These kinds of double-digit rate hikes should provide the Legislature with the evidence they need to move forward with real insurance reforms this year," said Alex Winslow of Texas Watch."...
The rate of urbanization has risen from 17.92% in 1978 to 57.35% in 2016, and the built-up area has increased from 17,605 sq km in 2001 to 40,941 sq km in 2015. In this process of urbanization, the land acquisition system played an essential role through higher investment, relaxed ...
While there is evidence that CSA supports smallholders’ adaption to climate change, the rate of CSA adoption remains low, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Previous studies have explained the low adoption based on generic factors such as farm, farmer, institutional and location characteristics, ...
Some farmers, however, viewed the use of crop insurance as locking farmers into the input-intensive industrial treadmill at the expense of diversity on the land. As one farmer lamented: The state of Iowa just shows you how important crop insurance is. There is not any diversity[…]Why can...
Similarly, for low financial well-being, an arrow pointing upward means that increases in the group variable values increase the probability of low well-being. Thus higher/increasing social assets will increase the probability of farm high well-being. Note that no arrows were added for nonordinal...
(basic and diluted), for the same period in 2023. Higher interest expense as a result of the Federal Reserve rate increases over the last two years was the primary reason for the decline in net income. The Company’s ...
food. We found unexpected results regarding the impact of farmers' participation in medical insurance and alcohol consumption on their health self-assessments. Farmers' participation in medical insurance was negatively associated with their subjective health assessments, while drinking alcohol had a positive...
“I also have to cover €10,000 this year for the increase in employers’ PRSI, the extra sick days are costing about €8,000, insurance hikes mean our premiums have spiked to €15,000 from €8,000 and our waste charges increased by €1.50 a lift, which...