Commercial Insurance On The Internet
Until recently it was extremely difficult to purchase commercial insurance online.
read moreHome Health And Long-Term Care Issues And Trends
USA Today reports on the profitability of home health care businesses while NPR examines long-term care insurance.
Home Health Care Is One Of The Most Profitable Franchises
A new report lists home health care as one of the top five most profitable franchises in the U.S., even as the industry fights new Department of Labor rules calling for mandatory overtime and minimum wage requirements for home health employees (Kennedy, 5/7).
Long-Term-Care Insurance: Who Needs It?
Americans routinely buy all sorts of insurance — for cars, homes, health and even pets and boats. But when it comes to long-term-care insurance, relatively few sign up.
10 states that are the toughest on drunken drivers
No matter where in the nation you belly up to the bar New York or Nevada, Oregon or Ohio getting behind the wheel after you’ve downed too many drinks is always a dumb decision. Across the United States, 900,000 people get arrested for that dumb decision each year.
However, where you get pulled over makes a big difference in how harshly you’re punished, according to a recent report issued by Mothers Against Drunk Driving , a nonprofit advocacy group.
read moreBuilders Insurance Anyone? White Van Man Is Taking Over
Is it just Insurance Blog or has the whole country gone mad building things?
From the amount of adverts for insurance for builders and tradesman that flood the TV intervals and blast across the radio airwaves during events like football, one could be easily mistaken to believe that the UK was in the midst of some great housing and construction boom where everyone has suddenly put on a yellow plastic hat, white overalls and bought a white van!
Dont forget your public liability! is the battle cry to the Sun reading hoards.
Now dont start on me, the latest Direct Line advert for combined Builders Liability and Van insurance has employed what would only have been described in the 17th Century as the Village Idiot in the starring role.
Stereotypes such as those used by Aviva in its regional ads featuring Paul Whitehouse were bad enough!
read moreJustices Hold First Vote Today On Health Law’s Fate
If past practice holds, the Supreme Court will meet privately today to cast a preliminary vote. No one else will be present, and drafts of opinions are likely to be written and rewritten many times in the next few months before the actual decision is issued, likely sometime in June.
The Supreme Court Will Decide On The Health-Care Law Soon. It Will Tell You Later.
If the usual process occurs, the justices of the Supreme Court will gather around a large rectangular table Friday morning and, one by one, cast their votes on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health-care law.
Lawmaker in Colorado seeks to snuff out drivers who are stoned
A Colorado lawmaker wants to send a message to drivers: Don’t toke and drive.
In February, Colorado state Sen. Steve King introduced a bill that would limit the amount of marijuana that motorists can have in their blood before they’re considered too stoned to drive.
In a Denver Post article, King, a Republican, was quoted as saying, The privilege of smoking marijuana should stop at the vehicle door. He added that stoned drivers have been the cause of several traffic deaths in recent years.
How many dead is the number that will cause us to act?