Monthly Archives: August 2008

Help – My Travel Insurance Claim Was Denied!

I didn’t buy travel insurance from you. The company is ______. I need your help: I needed medical treatment on my cruise, but now the insurer is telling me it wasn’t medically necessary and is denying the claim. Can you help me? Continue reading

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Biden gives back Scruggs money: does this mean he will be the Veep nominee?

Q: How do you know you’ve hit rock bottom? Continue reading

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Blogging has been limited and infrequent, I know

I know a lot of people are disappointed I haven’t been able to devote my usual time to this blog. Continue reading

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Ensuring with Health Insurance

Image source: www.blog.kir.com By being Health Insurance ensured, it assists to prevent us from towering health care costs that most citizens could not have in any other way. It helps us reimburse for health care, and it ensures that we have authorization to care when we need it. Continue reading

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Zach Scruggs’ sentence begins August 25

UPDATE: Continue reading

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Rare occurrence: good legal news for Scruggs

This story by Patsy Brumfield of the Daily Journal says Dickie Scruggs has Continue reading

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Greetings from the Oregon Coast

I’m posting today from the Oregon Coast Cyber Cafe in Manzanita, Oregon, which, when I looked it up on my PDA, sounded like a cool place to have some vastly overpriced decaf coffee and listen to some piped in tunes while blogging. Continue reading

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California health insurance ambition narrows

Seeking to salvage two years of efforts to completely remake California’s health insurance system , Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislators are nearing deals intended to rein in costly, meager medical insurance policies sold directly to individuals. In the final weeks of the legislative session, they are negotiating measures that would limit insurer profits on California individual insurance plans , require plans to provide a minimum set of benefits and restrict insurers’ ability to cancel policies retroactively Continue reading

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Will Travel Insurance Cover My Scheduled Surgery?

I need major surgery, so I booked a trip yesterday to help me handle the stress. I haven’t bought travel insurance, so if I get it and have to cancel will I get a refund on my trip’s cost? Sonya Well Sonya, the short answer is no. The reason is because the condition you have isn’t Continue reading

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California Takes Another Crack at Insurance Reform

After a failed attempt to pass a universal health plan early this year, California is now looking to rein in the notoriously consumer-unfriendly market for California individual health insurance . States face a Catch 22 when it comes to health policies that people buy on their own. Require plans to provide certain benefits or bar them from rejecting individuals for health insurance coverage , and the result will be that the insurance gets more expensive Continue reading

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