Posts Tagged ‘insurance’
Feds to design health insurance for the masses (AP)
AP – The federal government is taking on a crucial new role in the nation’s health care, designing a basic benefits package for millions of privately insured Americans. A framework for the Obama administration was released Thursday.
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Survey: Health insurance costs surge in 2011 (AP)
AP – The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance surged this year, snapping a trend toward moderate growth, but experts say these increases may slow again in 2012.
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Appeals court strikes health insurance requirement (AP)
AP – A federal appeals court panel on Friday struck down the requirement in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul package that virtually all Americans must carry health insurance or face penalties.
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Mets owners deny fraud insurance claim
Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee redistributing pieces of Bernard Madoff’s collapsed Ponzi scheme, expanded Thursday on an allegation in his billion-dollar lawsuit against the owners of the Mets, claiming that Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz went “shopping” for fraud insurance in 2001 and therefore knew Madoff was corrupt, a claim the owners immediately denied.
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‘Good Samaritan’ made false insurance claim in crash: cops
A Bronx good Samaritan at a nasty highway wreck turned out to be a really bad Samaritan – by claiming he was in the crash in hopes of lining his pockets, cops say.
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EU court bans insurance sex discrimination (AP)
AP – The European Union’s highest court on Tuesday barred the insurance industry from charging different rates for men and women, saying the widespread practices amounts to sex discrimination against millions.
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States ignored warnings on unemployment insurance (AP)
AP – State officials had plenty of warning. Over the past three decades, two national commissions and a series of government audits sounded alarms about the dwindling amount of money states were setting aside to pay unemployment insurance to laid-off workers.
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