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A 2021 analysis by then-Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier found that Florida made up 8% of the nation’s homeowners’ claims in 2019, but 76% of its lawsuits.
As it churns toward the disaster-prone Sunshine State, Hurricane Idalia could be a litmus test for Florida’s increasingly volatile and expensive insurance landscape.
One explanation posits that tuition increases simply reflect the increasing costs of producing higher education due to its high dependence upon skilled labor.According to the theory of the Baumol effect, a general economic trend is that productivity in service industries has lagged that in goods-producing industries, and the increase in higher education costs is simply a reflection of this ...
The least expensive type of life insurance is usually term life insurance. It provides coverage for a specific period — often 10, 20 or 30 years — and is typically much cheaper than permanent ...
Life insurance (or life assurance, especially in the Commonwealth of Nations) is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money upon the death of an insured person.
The American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) is the leading trade association driving public policy and advocacy on behalf of the life insurance industry. Based in Washington, D.C. , ACLI advocates on behalf of 275 member companies whose products and services help 90 million American families achieve financial security.
A common typology of insurance in the United States is to divide the industry into life and health insurers, on the one hand, and property and casualty insurers on the other: Life, Health Health (dental, vision, medications, others) Life (long-term care, accidental death and dismemberment, hospital indemnity) Annuities (securities) Life and ...
The crisis in the Florida insurance market. Florida has always been a complex home insurance market. Since 2017, eleven property and casualty companies that offered homeowners insurance in Florida ...