Insurance


Headline Was In Error

The headline for the illustration for the Personal Finance article on Retired Lives Reserve (April) is misleading. The figures are apparently for a conve...  Read story

Insuring Your Home-Based Business

It's a mistake to rely on a homeowner's or renter's insurance policy to cover the assets of your home-based business. These policies often exclude or stri...  Read story

Leaving Property to Young Children

Most parents, at one time or another, give serious thought to what would happen to their children in the unhappy - and very unlikely - event that one or b...  Read story

Health Insurance Tips

For Peter Hermann, health insurance is a headache. "Health insurance is a remarkably large expense, even for a 15-personfirm like ours," says Hermann, a g...  Read story

New Insurance Helps You Put Up A Fight

Until recently, if a small businessman was faced with a lawsuit not covered by traditional liability insurance, he had two options: He could settle out of...  Read story

Life For Less

James D. Schwartz sees an innovative way to cut the costs of insurance policies: "no-load" life insurance.  Read story

Insurance Associations

Industry-specific associations can help you research hard-to-find details about the industry you're in and often offer valuable networking opportunities w...  Read story

Rx For Trimming Health-care Costs

Five ways to counter the spiraling cost of employee coverage.  Read story

Liability Policies For Retired Owners

A new kind of small business liability insurance policy is being sold exclusively to business owners who have retired and closed up shop. Introduced by th...  Read story

Business Insurance: A 12-Point Checklist

In the weeks since the September 11 tragedies, some formerly mundane business considerations have suddenly become glaring priorities. Adequate business in...  Read story

Don't Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella

Buying insurance after cashing out.  Read story

Health Insurance Premiums Continue to Climb

While the increases slowed over the past year, more companies are planning to pass the costs on to their employees.  Read story

Health Insurance Options

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Insurance Pooling

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Life Insurance

In general, life insurance is a type of coverage that pays benefits upon a person's death or disability. In exchange for relatively small premiums paid in...  Read story

Medicare and Medicaid

Medicare and Medicaid are health insurance programs sponsored by the federal government that cover medical expenses for elderly, disabled, and low-income ...  Read story

Workers' Compensation

Workers' compensation is a mandatory type of business insurance that provides employees who become injured or ill while on the job with medical coverage a...  Read story

The Way To Universal Life

The last few years have not been happy ones for the life insurance industry. For decades, its main offering was the tradiional whole-life" policy, which c...  Read story

Going Bare

New ways to deal with the insurance crunch -- including doing without.  Read story

Strength In Numbers

Relief may be as close as your nearest trade association.  Read story

Insurance;

If you've been socked with one of those astronomical insurance rate increases, chances are you've had to pass along some of the cost to your customers. B...  Read story

Finance;

The new federal law known as COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) may contain a hidden bonus for some small companies -- a provision tha...  Read story

Unhealthy Benefits

Hold on to your wallets.  Read story

Preventive Medicine

Company meets with a council of employees to get their input on cutting health insurance costs.  Read story

Help Wanted

How small companies can lower their health-care costs.  Read story

A Fresh Look at Insurance

Cutting insurance costs by overhauling insurance coverage.  Read story

Insurance Costs and Commitments

Chart representing medical insurance costs the possible future of medical benefits.  Read story

Health-Care-Cost Headaches

NSBU chart of the percentage increase in health premiums for small business.  Read story

Why Us?

Restaurant owner writes about why she agrees with President Clinton that businesses should fund the nation's health care  Read story

The Free-Lunch Debates

Various letters from Inc. readers are featured responding to a CEO's column about Clinton's health-care insurance plan.  Read story

Health Insurance: Helping Employees Foot the Bill

A quick look at a program that provides employees with a unique way to "earn" health insurance.  Read story

A Policy to Die For

Two financial experts share their thoughts on choosing the right life insurance policy.  Read story

Unhealthy Increases

Advice on lowering your health-insurance expenses. Tips include: tailoring a plan to your specific company needs, softening the blow of cutbacks, and develop...  Read story

Fewer Americans Receiving Health Insurance Through Their Employers

August 4, 2004 -- Results of a new study show that the country's three-year-old recession has not only stripped away jobs, but employees'...  Read story

Small Businesses Less Ready to Offer Workers Health Insurance

September 13, 2004 -- Workers in small businesses are less likely to receive health insurance from their employers, as premiums rose by 1...  Read story

New Studies Show That HSAs Still Have a Long Way to Go

Jan. 12, 2005 --When it comes to finding ways to offer their workers health insurance, most employers seems to like the idea of health sav...  Read story