Latest News in Home Insurance – Aug 17, 2009

Don’t Underestimate Your Home Contents – Market Wire

17 Aug 2009 at 12:04am
MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwire – Aug. 17, 2009) – British home owners are under-estimating the value of their home contents, according to Swinton, the UK’s leading high street retailer of home insurance. The poll of 1,200 Swinton home …

Obama backs away from public health insurance plan – Associated Press

17 Aug 2009 at 12:11am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is willing to embrace insurance cooperatives over a government-run plan as the White House faces mounting opposition to its broad overhaul of the nation’s health care system. Bowing to Republican pressure and …

High court’s insurance ruling will cost drivers, critics say – Lansing State …

17 Aug 2009 at 12:40am
Not the usual suspects such as escalating health care costs or a bad stock market, according to critics. They say the state Supreme Court is to blame. The court last month voted 4-3 to force the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association to fully …

Mutual Benefit to make insurance more accessible – Punch

16 Aug 2009 at 7:04pm
While speaking with our correspondent, the Managing Director, Mr. Akin Ogunbiyi, said that this was part of the company’s efforts to provide relief to the insured when he suffers a loss, which will also help in eradicating poverty. He said …

Misconception over key issues at core of debate – San Francisco Gate

17 Aug 2009 at 1:59am
But in recent weeks the noise has challenged the issues, widening the distance between Washington, D.C., and the town halls and putting words like “mobs” and “death panels” in the same conversation as “pre-existing conditions” and a “public plan …

Canoe man’s diary reveals moment he decided to vanish – Evening Standard

17 Aug 2009 at 2:06am
Back from the dead canoeist John Darwin has spoken of the “eureka” moment he realised he could fake his own death. The conman — who collected £250,000 in an insurance fraud by supposedly drowning at sea — secretly smuggled his memoirs out of …

Obama officials hedge on overhaul – Philadelphia Inquirer

17 Aug 2009 at 12:04am
WASHINGTON – Racing to regain control of the health-care debate, two top administration officials signaled yesterday the White House may be willing to jettison a controversial government-run insurance plan favored by liberals. As President Obama …

Sound Off for Aug. 17 – Register Citizen

16 Aug 2009 at 10:46pm
Noisy kids should go home We live on a nice street. Our problem is that we have a section where 10 to 12 kids use it every day until way past dark as a playground doing their jump tricks with their skateboards and bikes. These kids do not live on …

Viability of public option in question – Seattle Times

17 Aug 2009 at 12:11am
Cooperatives generally are owned by members, are structured as nonprofits and either own a system of health-care providers or contract for medical services for members. Such groups — Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative is an example — often …

Public option for health reform is losing ground – Pioneer Press

16 Aug 2009 at 10:46pm
WASHINGTON — Racing to regain control of the health care debate, two top administration officials signaled Sunday that the White House may be willing to jettison a controversial government-run insurance plan favored by liberals. As President Barack …