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Life insurance companies are the focus of a new law in Montana

Life Insurance News

A new bill has just been signed by the state governor that requires firms to search for beneficiaries. Governor Steve Bullock has just signed a new Montana bill that will require that life insurance companies always search for policy beneficiaries when the policyholder has died. This is the case even when there have not been any claims submitted following the policyholder’s death. The bill was created as a response to a number of settlement agreements that have been made across the country in which life insurance companies had been charged…

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Life insurance being used by parents for their kids’ student debt

Julie Campbell
health insurance for student

The overwhelming amounts that are owed are leading to some unique protection strategies. A life insurance trend has been building over the last short while that has parents taking out policies on their children in order to protect themselves against the overwhelming student debt that they carry. Many parents co-sign on student loans, leaving them at a considerable risk if their children should die prematurely. It is becoming increasingly common for parents to protect themselves from the debts of their children’s educations by purchasing life insurance policies following their graduation…

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Homeowners insurance costs eclipse mortgages in Florida

Homeowners Insurance Florida

Florida homeowners now paying more for insurance than for their homes One of the highest expenses facing Florida families has long been the mortgage on their homes. Mortgages in the state, just as elsewhere throughout the U.S., put a large amount of financial pressure on families. While mortgages have been the highest expense for many families in the state, these families are beginning to pay more for their homeowners insurance coverage, according to the Insurance Information Institute. The non-profit organization suggests that consumers are paying more for their homeowners, auto,…

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Life insurance policies from Hong Kong selling well in China

Hong Kong health Insurance News

Mainland Chinese consumers are helping to boost the sale of the coverage through cross border shopping. Visitors from mainland China have been helping to increase the success of the life insurance industry in Hong Kong as they have been buying policies at a rate that is returning the sector nearly to the level that it had reached before the global economic crisis began. New premiums for the policies are helping to boost the appeal of the coverage, leading to considerable recovery. The newly created premiums for life insurance being sold…

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Insurance news from the ORNGE scandal in Canada deepens

Julie Campbell
insurance news from the provincial government in Ontario, Canada, ORNGE, a company that is already wracked with scandal in terms of its taxpayer money spend

It has now been revealed that the company spent taxpayer funds on a $10 million life policy for the CEO. According to the latest insurance news from the provincial government in Ontario, Canada, ORNGE, a company that is already wracked with scandal in terms of its taxpayer money spending, used public funds to purchase a $10 million life policy for Dr. Chris Mazza, the former CEO of the company. That coverage is estimated to have cost taxpayers $450,000 according to the Tory report. The insurance news deepened when it was…

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