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SCIF Sale: The Big Lie
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to sell $1 billion in assets of the State Compensation Insurance Fund in an effort to close California's enormous budget gap. Such a sale would greatly negatively effect California's workers' comp market. Additionally the sale of the assets are not returned to the policy holders and instead included in the general state budget.
Tags: California; Workers comp; insurance; budget; Arnold Schwarzenegger; policy holders; 1 billion; compensation; fund; proposal; department of finance;
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Ten Things Your Life Insurer Won't Tell You
SmartMoney magazine reports on the most common ways in which life insurance companies can and do hurt their customers. Some of these are: pester us for a better deal, and you'll probably get it; Our favorite policy is secrecy; if you knew how we motivate our agents, you'd look elsewhere; we can raise expenses, and it's none of your business; the less you understand us, the more we like it; you are paying us more interest than a delinquent credit-card holder; nobody's really certain how we rate; our riders will take you for a ride; we pay less interest than a savings account; you just threw out a great tax break.
Tags: life insurance; interest rates
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Unsettling Claims
KTVT-TV reports that "companies that claim to be 'a good neighbor' and to keep consumers in 'good hands' ... may only be interested in the bottom line. .. three-part investigation of the auto insurance industry .. uncovers some seriously questionable practices in Texas and around the country. The first part reveals how through the alleged abuse of Texas' titling system, cars that have been declared 'totaled-out' frequently end-up back on the road... part-two... highlight(s) the controversy surrounding after-market or imitation auto parts.... Part-three educates consumers to the concept of 'diminished value,' and how insurance companies are allegedly shortchanging their own policy-holders after a car accident...."
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Transport Life Health Coverage Fell Short of Some Agents' Claims
Asbury Park Press investigates insurance agents who fraudulently promised better health insurance than the company delivered, leaving policy holders with thousands of dollars worth of unpaid medical bills, June 3, 1990.
Tags: NJ; Transport Life; Medical Insurance