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What’s Free and What’s Not

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, health insurers in the U.S. have to cover certain preventive health care without requiring you to pay a deductible, copayment, or coinsurance. That rule applies to all non-grandfathered major medical plans in both the individual/family and employer-sponsored...

Louisiana judges says state can’t force insurance companies to pay for evacuation expenses – L’Observateur

Administrative Law Judge Patrick Moore wrote last week that Donelon went out of bounds when he issued Directive 218 in September 2021 that demanded insurers waive policy language that required a civil evacuation order to trigger Prohibited Use coverage, or payments for living expenses associated...

42,000 Louisiana homeowners dropped by insurance company Friday; State Insurance Commissioner addresses crisis

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - 42,000 homeowners are looking for a new insurance policy as of Friday. The company, Southern Fidelity dropped them and now they have 60 days to find a new policy.Nearly 100,000 policyholders total have been dropped by Southern Fidelity, Lighthouse...

Florida Property Insurance Market Remains Challenging – NBC 6 South Florida

Southern Fidelity Insurance Company is the latest property insurer to shut down in Florida. "Effective July 15, 2022, all Southern Fidelity policies are going to expire," said Mark Friedlander of the Insurance Information Institute. This is the fourth insurer ordered into liquidation so far this...

Insurance company approves surgery for Westchester native dying from rare cancer

Jul 15, 2022, 2:24amUpdated 5h agoBy: News 12 StaffA man who has been denied a possible lifesaving surgery finally got some good news on Thursday.Westchester County native Anthony Di Laura is dying from a rare form of cancer. He has been waiting to...