Income Assure is a private insurance company that sells supplemental unemployment insurance so that you can maintain 50% of your income if you lose your job. Though state unemployment systems are designed to replace 50% of former wages, benefits are capped at a relatively low fixed dollar amount. So, once you earn above a certain […]
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ProPublica: Joseph Caramadre has spent a lifetime scouring the fine print. He’s hardwired to seek the angle, an overlooked clause in a contract that allows him to transform a company’s carelessness into a personal windfall. He calls these insights his “creations,” and he numbers them. There have been about 19 in his lifetime, he says.
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Laura Bennett, CEO of Embrace Pet Insurance: In America, 65 percent of households have dogs or cats, yet only 1 percent of those pets have pet insurance. Across the ocean, 25 percent of cats and dogs carry pet health insurance in the U.K. British people don’t mind insurance very much. In the U.K., when pet
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Miami New Times: Indian River County’s Ian Sidles, age 25, and Dustin Boring, 30, incorporated Pre-Paid Auto Club in August. The company provides “speeding insurance.” Pay dues starting at $9.99 a month, and when you receive a moving violation, the club takes care of associated fines, traffic school costs, and legal fees. It’s like the
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WorldCrunch: First it was Swiss Life, now AXA has joined the party. Insurers have started selling e-reputation insurance products to protect your family’s image on the internet. Called “Protection Famille Intégr@leâ€, AXA’s new product will protect you against identity theft, credit-card fraud, harm to your online reputation and e-commerce disputes. Both insurers use a dedicated
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Wall Street Journal: Watson, the “Jeopardy!”-playing computer system, is getting a job. WellPoint Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are set to announce a deal on Monday for the health insurer to use the Watson technology, the first time the high-profile project will result in a commercial application. WellPoint said it plans to use Watson’s
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All too often entrepreneurs and small business owners are so caught up with developing a brand, recruiting employees and creating a solid marketing plan that they forget to purchase one of the most important things that can protect them from the “risks” typically associated with start-ups—small business insurance. While getting insured may be the last
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Sad. But profitable, I’m sure. The NY Times has a profile of the world’s first divorce insurance product. Here’s how its WedLock product works. The casualty insurance is designed to provide financial assistance in the form of cash to cover the costs of a divorce, such as legal proceedings or setting up a new apartment
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Mile Meter likes to think of itself as the “anti-insurance insurance company.” It sells auto insurance by the mile – which means that the less you drive, the less you pay for insurance. See how Chris Gay, founder and chief executive, managed to keep the company alive. Video via New York Times ‘You’re the Boss’
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photo credit: pingnews The following a guest post from the great people at Company.com. Health insurance — even with a crazy deductable — is not an optional expense for a startup. Judith Starkey spent half a lifetime arguing with government bureaucrats and health insurance companies on behalf of people trying to get coverage. You might
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