Agent pleads guilty, taken into custody
Former Washington insurance agent Jasmine Jamrus-Kassim pleaded guilty this morning to 10 counts of theft for stealing more than $1 million ...
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Children's open enrollment ends Monday, Oct. 31
If you need an individual health plan for your child or want to add them to your insurance, you have until Monday, Oct. 31. After that, unle...
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New Minor Injury Guideline
The new Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS) came into effect September 1, 2010. Among the key amendments, there has been a reduction...
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Does insurance cover space junk crashing to earth?
If pieces of a satellite crash on your home or car -- or on you -- does insurance cover that? Yes, according to the Insurance Information I...
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Municipality attempts to exert rights to shoreline road after discovering a 150 year old By-law
Meaford (Municipality) v. Grist [2011] O.J. No. 4188 This is an interesting case regarding an 1854 By-law that had been found in 2004, whic...
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Is the weather really getting worse? Insurer's data suggests yes
Munich Re, a major reinsurance company, this summer released a very interesting report on natural disasters, and the data suggests that, as ...
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Red cars, insurance and speeding tickets
There's an urban myth out there that holds that the color of a car affects your insurance rate. The rumor is so pervasive that some insu...
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Don't get fooled by official-looking health insurance website
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is warning consumers about a site that "has the appearance of being an off...
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Premera refiles rate request
Premera Blue Cross has refiled a rate change for its individual health plans - this time seeking a 4.7 percent increase. We disapproved it...
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The Importance of Causation
In Lancaster (Litigation Guardian of) v. Santos , [2011] O.J. No. 3706 , the County of Dufferin was added as a third party in an action aris...
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Insurance company not paying a life insurance claim? Here's what you can do...
Generally, insurance companies can only deny life insurance proceeds within the first two policy years for two reasons. This is called the &...
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Where you can find a flu shot
Here's a new site, developed by the feds, where you can type in your zip code and immediately get a list of local pharmacies, etc. that ...
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Insurance agent who sold fake policies sentenced to more than two years in prison
An insurance agent who sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in fake business-insurance policies has been sentenced to more than two years i...
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How to avoid buying a flood-damaged car
With hurricane and storm season winding down, an insurance industry organization is warning about the likelihood that flood-damaged vehicles...
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Court of Appeal Comments on s. 132 of the Insurance Act
The Court of Appeal recently commented on s. 132 of the Insurance Act. Section 132 provides that a person who obtains a judgment against an...
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Scammed seniors will be repaid more than $1 million
Retirees who lost more than $1 million to an unscrupulous insurance agent will be repaid, under an agreement reached between the insurance c...
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Class-action settlement covers hundreds of thousands of insurance customers
Hundreds of thousands of people who were led to expect more interest than they got from annuities are eligible for a multi-million dollar cl...
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Turned down for life insurance? Here's what you can do...
If you apply for life insurance and get rejected, it's usually due to a specific health condition. Here’s what you can do to appeal thei...
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