Homeowners insurance lacking in over 9 in 10 UAE homes

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Recent findings from Zurich have revealed that the current trend is headed in a downward direction. It took a massive fire in a Dubai residential tower, last year, to truly draw the attention of property owners in the United Arab Emirates to the importance of homeowners insurance, but it looks as though the climbing trend has come to an end and is starting to drop once more. A recent study has shown that over 9 out of every 10 people don’t have their homes covered. The homeowners insurance study was…

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Long term care insurance study reveals buyer behaviors

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Recent research has identified some of the reasons that people are purchasing the coverage. According to the results of a recent study, the people who are the most likely to buy long term care insurance are also those who are either getting ready for their retirement, or who have known someone who has experienced a situation in which they required LTC. The research suggested that life events tend to be a major trigger for making this kind of planning purchase. The study was conducted by the MSR Group and was…

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Insurance news study results show people with coverage use hospital less

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The research compared hospitalizations among those who had health plans with those who didn’t. According to the results of a new study that are making insurance news headlines, people who have health coverage are far less likely to require hospitalization than those who are uninsured. This data comes at a time when the Affordable Care Act is still trying to show it will be financially worthwhile. The research performed a comparison between the hospitalizations of childless adults who had BadgerCare with those who are completely uninsured. What it determined was…

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Long term care insurance not a high priority for many in the US

Long Term Care Insurance

New research has shown that the coverage and other preparations for LTC is not a top concern. According to the results of a new poll, which looked into the way that people aged 40 and higher are making preparations for their future aging needs, the trend is that few are making a high priority of taking out long term care insurance and making other preparations to pay for the costly assistance that they may one day need. Two thirds of the participants in the study said that they had planned…

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Health insurance shows 84 million Americans uninsured or underinsured for a span of 2012

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The survey revealed that there was a very large group that spent part of last year without coverage. According to research conducted by the Commonwealth Fund, there were 84 million people – that is, almost half of all American adults of working age – who either went insured for a span of time in 2012, or who had to pay medical costs that were so great that they were considered to be underinsured. The survey also discovered that the coverage level increased among young adults from 2010 to 2012. The…

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