Confused.com and EMB Launch New Car Insurance Price Index (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Price comparison sites more useful than ever as new price index finds car insurance costs to be rising.
Judge Rejects Mercury Insurance's Prop 17 Claims; Voters Will Be Told of Prop 17 Car Insurance Surcharges (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
SACRAMENTO, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judge Allen Sumner has upheld Attorney General Jerry Brown's Official Title and Summary of Proposition 17, which warns the measure will allow car insurers to raise premiums. The ruling means voters will learn in the ballot pamphlet that Prop 17 will allow insurance companies to raise rates on California drivers based on their history of buying auto ...
Voters To Learn of Prop 17 Car Insurance Surcharges (KEYT 3 Santa Barbara)
Judge Allen Sumner has upheld Attorney General Jerry Brown's Official Title and Summary of Proposition 17, which warns rates will go up for drivers who don't have continuous coverage.
How to pay for long-term care (Tri-County Times)
People don’t like to think about long-term care. They say they don’t want to go into a nursing home, and that it won’t happen to them. It’s like car insurance, said Debbie Durham, vice president for Caretel Inns. People have it, but don’t believe they’ll ever get in an accident.
Judges review language of state ballot measures (Los Angeles Times)
A teachers union's effort to change wording in Prop. 14, which would allow open primaries, was largely rejected. Measures on car insurance and public financing got only minimal adjustments. Two Sacramento judges Friday ordered changes in the wording of ballot measures that would move California to an open primary system, change car insurance rate structures and charge lobbyists to fund campaigns ...
Why Not Universal Car Insurance? (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
With universal mandates, insurance companies no longer compete for multiple clients, but for just one — this is called a monopsony. The amount of eligible insurance companies quickly dwindles.
Married drivers are risking their no-claims discount (Independent)
When May Belt renewed her car insurance last month, she got a shock. Because she wanted to transfer the policy from her husband to herself, she was told she would lose her no-claims discount. "I couldn't believe it," says May, 75, who lives in Leeds. "I have had a driving licence for 50 years and we had built up 22 years' worth of no-claims experience, but I was told that counted for nothing. If ...
Job search puts resolve to the test (The Fayetteville Observer)
Usually, he never hears back. Not a we've-received-and-are-reviewing-your-application. Not a thanks-but-no-thanks.
Blood-Selling Packers Fan Voted To Team's Fan Hall (FOX 12 Oregon)
A man who said his loyalty to the Green Bay Packers helped save his life has been voted into the team's Fan Hall of Fame. The team announced the honor Saturday for 79-year-old Jim Becker. He attended Packers games for 56 years. Becker said he and his wife raised 11 kids, so money was tight. To afford his season tickets without taking money from his family, he began selling his blood for $15 per ...
Tea Party Members Meet in Wisconsin Dells (WISN 12 Milwaukee)
About 2,000 members of the Tea Party movement discussed how to influence upcoming elections Saturday.
