Yearly Archives: 2025

Health Insurance Rates to Increase 15.9% on Average in Individual Market 

Health insurance carriers operating in New Jersey’s individual marketplace – where people shop for insurance plans if they don’t have coverage through their employer, Medicare or Medicaid, have filed initial rate increases averaging 15.9% for 2026.  Enrollment for the...

Insurance industry opposes regulation,blames inflation, climate change for rate hikes

Pritzker called for legislation following State Farm’s 27% homeowners rate hike   Insurance industry officials defended recent homeowners insurance rate spikes this week, blaming such factors as inflation and climate change while warning that attempts to regulate their ability to...

Thousands of Milwaukee residents still feel effects of storm wreckage

Reading Time: 3 minutes Are you getting our free newsletters? Last week’s storms destroyed Sabrena Henderson’s Milwaukee home, leaving her family displaced.  Not only did the basement of her Garden Homes rental unit flood, destroying her washer, dryer and...

LP Insurance Services named best practices agency

<!-- LP Insurance Services has been named to an elite group of independent insurance agencies around the U.S. that participated in the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America “Best...

AFCA rules on car insurance payout recipient after ex files complaint – Insurance News

The financial services ombudsman has rejected a man’s bid for a car damage payout after the policyholder – his ex-wife – blocked his access to the cash.   The man, who had shared access to the policy, lodged a...

A week in housing – by Halina Bennet

As we continue to do some evening experimentation at Slow Boring, we thought we’d catch up on housing and development news from the last week. As always, please feel free to discuss any topic in the comments, which...
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