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• Insurance is extra on this ‘hot’ Mexican car
Q: I have a question about car rental insurance. I recently booked a car in Manzanillo, Mexico through Hotwire. I ended up paying $197 in advance for a two-week rental through Thrifty. My practice in renting cars has been to decline the optional ...
• When you are denied health insurance
Jacqueline Ruess was lying on a bed inside a hospital in Boca Raton, Florida, still woozy from anesthesia but hoping that, maybe just this once, she'd caught a break. She'd had laparoscopic surgery in order to examine a growth her gynecologist ...
• Insurance giant AIG's role in market crisis probed
WASHINGTON - Executives at the American International Group Inc. hid from its auditors the full range of risky practices at its financial products division even as losses mounted, according to documents obtained by a congressional panel examining ...
• Hurricane Ike produces 76,000 damage claims
Thousands of residents returned to Galveston on Sept. 24 for the first time since Hurricane Ike hit 11 days before. AUSTIN, Texas - More than 76,000 damage claims from Hurricane Ike have been filed with the Texas-backed windstorm insurance ...
• The risk of McCain's health plan
Most Americans now receive their health insurance at work. That system promotes risk-sharing because employers don't vary the premiums based on a worker's age or health: The old and sick are subsidized by the young and healthy, who are then ...