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For example, common insurance limits are $300,000 for life insurance death benefits, $100,000 for cash surrender values of life insurance policies, and $100,000 or $250,000 for annuity contracts.

Take the insurance. It's part of being a grownup. And put aside some money every month to cover the deductible. Look into getting a health savings account that has roll-over with it.That way you ...

Turnarounds like Gateway, Nortel, or Jerry Yang's Yahoo. Carly Fiorina's restructuring plan for HP. They failed - not because of flawed process or methodology - but because they were bad ideas to ...

Policies are primarily sold through affiliate retail brokerage AXA Advisors and through third-party distributors including banks, broker-dealers, insurance partners, ...

Every one of its employees is called an associate and owns stock or options in the company. They also don't use any paper - only e-mail - to communicate with each other, according to Ashwill.

Some in the US have argued that the debate is closed and the "shareholder" camp has emerged victorious. Not so fast, respond Wharton finance professor Franklin Allen, and his co-authors Elena ...

The mortgage company will hold the funds in a loss draft account, and then disburse the funds to you in installments to pay your contractors/builders. Aerial views of superstorm damage 38 photos ...

Macquarie, another Australian firm, Transurban, and assorted Spanish ones are also big players in public-private partnerships to lease and maintain superhighways in Texas, Indiana, Illinois and ...

There's no question that email is the predominant form of business communication today -- it far and away displaces phone, voicemail, fax and even face-to-face communication.

Pet insurance providers PetPlan and Trupanion have formal pet bereavement policies as does Double Forte, a public relations firm. Trending News Amazon's latest target: teens with spending money

Mattel on Monday warned of a year-end earnings shortfall and said it plans to buy The Learning Company for $3.8 billion. Mattel (MAT) said it expects 1998 sales to be essentially unchanged from a ...

Starwood, for example, has put a lot of effort into the Starwood Preferred Guest program being a unifying force for all the brands. So what did IHG think about that? So what did IHG think about ...

3. Renters insurance isn't as expensive as you may think . Thinking the cost of coverage outweighs the benefits? Think again. While the price will vary depending on where you live, the various ...

iStockphoto By Amelia Josephson/SmartAsset. For many people, car insurance is a major expense category in the household budget.And because it's against the law to drive without car insurance, it's ...

Earthquake insurance: 8 things you need to know. By Kathy Kristof November 7, 2011 / 5:05 PM / MoneyWatch The 5.6-point Oklahoma earthquake -- the strongest in recorded history for that state ...

Kobe Bryant tribute: Honoring an NBA legend Through art, flowers and other tributes, fans worldwide are showing their love for the late basketball star. Feb 24 49 photos

COBRA . This program, which gets its name from the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, allows you to extend your current employer-sponsored health insurance coverage for up to 18 months.

The replacement value of an item is how much it will cost to go to the store and buy a new one. For example, a 27-inch television bought 5 years ago may only be worth $50 now, but buying a new ...

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A cheaper option may be to buy insurance through a government health insurance marketplace. A Reuters report pegged the average monthly premium for a midlevel plan there at $328. Still, any way ...

Messages saved to ProMed, a mailing list for outbreak watchers, are upbeat, describing Metabiota's tests and how it was teaching Sierra Leoneans how to set up Ebola isolation wards.

Uber's IPO would be one the largest in history, but it continues to hemorrhage money. The company lost $800 million in the third quarter, following a $1.2 billion loss in the first half, according ...

Only 16 percent of Americans have asked about common discounts, such as lower rates for people who drive fewer than 5,000 miles per year, according to a new survey from insuranceQuotes.com.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has fired a big gun at the auto insurance industry, charging that its practice of rating drivers on the basis of education and job status is discriminatory. That's ...

That's shortsighted. In many states, auto insurance policies don't pay for a rental car company's "loss of use." This is the "cost" the rental car company incurs due to the loss of rental fees ...

The following is a script from "Not Paid" which aired on April 17, 2016. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Rich Bonin, producer. When you take out a life insurance policy, you pay premiums in the ...

Also called umbrella insurance because it protects you over and above the liability coverage that's part of your existing homeowner's and auto insurance, this special type of liability insurance ...

OSAP, the Organization for Safety and Asepsis Procedures, tells how to assess infection-control practices in a dentist’s office and gives a checklist for obtaining safe dental care abroad. It ...

Hidden health insurance benefits you may have. February 22, 2011 / 11:42 AM / CBS News If you haven't gone through the fine print in your health insurance policy -- and let's be honest, most of us ...

Life insurance. You need coverage if you still have people financially dependent on you, such as minor, special-needs children or a spouse who wouldn't be able to pay the bills if you died.

Jeans maker Levi Strauss soared 30 percent in its return as a public company, with Wall Street valuing the jeans maker at $8.7 billion more than three decades after it went private.

Except for the name, I like everything about DudaMobile. It's amazingly fast and easy, and very reasonably priced: a Premium account is a drop in the bucket compared with hiring an outside company ...

Launched in 1967 by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, the QE2 became the longest-serving ship in Cunard's 168-year history. The vessel has crossed the Atlantic more than 800 times and has carried more ...

Popular cosmetics company faces lawsuit The cosmetics brand Rodan and Fields has been hit with a lawsuit over its eyelash enhancer product.

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Being a partially rural state is just one factor that has helped keep Ohio auto insurance rates 33 percent below the national average. But intense competition among the state's insurance companies ...