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Flood insurance changes run into resistance
2013-07-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Just a year after Congress imposed significant changes in the government's oft-criticized flood insurance program, howls of protest from homeowners facing higher premiums have coastal lawmakers pressing for delays that would preserve below-cost rates for hundreds of thousands of people in flood-risk areas. The government can't say how many people could confront higher premiums, but homeowners in places like Staten Island, N.Y., along the battered New Jersey coast and in low-lying areas of Louisiana,...
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UnitedHealth to exit individual insurance market in California
2013-07-03 10:56:09| Beverages - Topix.net
The nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc., is leaving California's individual health insurance market, the second major company to exit in advance of major changes under the Affordable Care Act.
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UnitedHealth Group to leaves the state's individual health insurance market
2013-07-03 02:35:54| Beverages - Topix.net
Is the Affordable Care Act having the opposite affect? The nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc., is leaving 's individual health insurance market, the second major company to exit in advance of major changes under the Affordable Care Act.
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Insurance Firms Warn of the Uninsurable Future of Climate Change
2013-06-28 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Ocean warming from climate change could make some parts of the world "uninsurable," according to a new report from global insurance trade body, the Geneva Association. It warns that the speed at which global oceans are warming is threatening the industrys ability to sell affordable policies around the world, with parts of the United Kingdom (UK) and the U.S. state of Florida already facing a risk environment that is uninsurable. And these areas are unlikely to be the last that will experience...
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AAJ urges an increase in trucking insurance limits
2013-06-28 00:40:32| Trucking - Topix.net
Federal trucking industry insurance standards from 1980 create safety hazards on American roads and prevent accident victims from being fully compensated, according to a new report from the American Association for Justice, a plaintiffs' attorneys' group.
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