Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Crash Tests More Small Cars

Photo The Mini Cooper Countryman received a top score from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in its small overlap front crash test. Credit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Among the most recent group of 12 small cars to undergo the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's small-overlap...

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China's local GDP data points to recovery, rebalancing

By Aileen Wang and Koh Gui Qing BEIJING (Reuters) - China's regional economies enjoyed a revival in growth in the second quarter, data from provincial governments showed, chiming with earlier figures that suggest a burst of government stimulus measures is re-invigorating activity. Of the 30 regions and provinces that released their local gross domestic product (GDP) data, 23 reported first-half economic growth accelerated from the first quarter. About three-quarters posted growth that was higher than the national...

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Meet the new Saugus High School soccer coach: Dan D’Amico

Former Saugus High School soccer star Dan D'Amico is returning to campus this fall as the new Sachems' varsity boys soccer coach, SHS Assistant Principal and Athletic Director Mike Nelson announced July 23. D'Amico, the Medford High School freshman coach from 2010-12, before becoming its varsity assistant in 2013, replaces Tom Duplisea. Duplisea was the Sachems coach since 2009. D'Amico, a 1998 SHS graduate, was a center-midfielder/forward for Coach Mike Hashem's (the current SHS principal) teams, and was its captain in his senior...

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Why Health Insurance Plans With Narrow Networks Are Here to Stay

The New Health Care Photo Credit David Doran Traditionally, there were a few ways that health insurers could keep premiums low for individual...

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Flood insurance nightmares still haunt Sandy families

Russ Zimmer, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, Neptune, N.J. 10:13 p.m. EDT July 28, 2014 Doug Quinn (right) shows U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., around his Sandy-ruined Toms River home . Quinn still is in a struggle over the payout for his flood insurance policy.(Photo: Russ Zimmer/Staff Photo) TOMS RIVER, N.J. — When the storm surge from superstorm Sandy shoved the Kettle Creek into Doug Quinn's home, he waded through waist-deep water to...

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Ask Carrie: How much insurance do you need in retirement?

Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz Posted: Monday, July 28, 2014, 1:06 PM Dear Carrie, I'm 63 and will leave my full-time job in six months. In an effort to cut back, I'm looking at all my expenses and it seems like I'm paying an awful lot in different types of insurance premiums. What do I really need at this point in my life? —A Reader Dear Reader, Smart question. Insurance needs really are different at different points in life. Some insurance...

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Free Life-Insurance Offer Scrutinized

May 5, 2014 7:59 p.m. ET Thousands of Florida teachers recently got a tantalizing offer: free life insurance, paid for by a group of rich investors they had never met. To many of the teachers, it seemed too good to be true. Now they—and regulators—are trying to figure out if it actually is. The offer to Pasco County's school district came from Ohio-based Pollock Financial Group, which promised to match the district's employees with investors eager for lucrative ways to...

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Making a better future for their boys, Owsley County couple work hard to get degrees

Friday, May 16, 2014 Nicholas Banks, left, graduated on May 10 with an associates degree from Hazard Community and Technical College and is three semesters away from getting his bachelor's in criminal justice from Eastern Kentucky University. His wife, Ashley, will finish her HCTC degree in human services in the fall of 2015. (Photo from HCTC)  Husband-and-wife teams share many things – a home, a family and, often, a business. Ashley...

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RAID Data Recovery and Repair Services: A Buyer's Guide

Murphy's Law tells us that anything that can go wrong will go wrong at the worst possible time. The axiom to this law says Murphy was an optimist. Which begs the question: what happens when RAID fails? If you're using RAID 5, it means that at least two drives must fail for the array to be broken. If a single drive fails in a RAID 5 configuration, the distributed parity permits the system to continue operating. Some RAID configurations, such as...

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Flood insurance becomes political tool in Senate race

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is running in a tight re-election race in which her leading Republican challenger, Rep. Bill Cassidy, is competing with her to take credit for a new flood insurance law.(Photo: Evan Vucci, AP) WASHINGTON — It's been months since Congress acted to protect thousands of homeowners from dramatic premium increases under the National Flood Insurance Program. But for Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and the leading Republican...

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Galfand Berger Lawyers Selected to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Awards

Year after year, Galfand Berger attorneys demonstrate their commitment to our clients and our community with success in and out of the courtroom. This year we are proud to announce that five of our attorneys—Arthur Bugay, Debra Jensen, Rick Jurewicz, Peter Patton and Norman Weinstein—have been named to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list. Galfand Berger attorneys Michael Malvey and Henry Yampolsky were named to the 2014 Pennsylvania Rising Stars...

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Insurance Coverage for Fertility Treatments Varies Widely

Photo Sarah Patterson, 27, a nurse, has had four miscarriages in four years, but her health insurance doesn't pay for treating infertility. Credit J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times Sarah Patterson, a 27-year-old nurse, suffered four miscarriages over the last four years because of several...

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Struggling Life-Insurance Companies Look to Middle-Class for Revival

July 24, 2014 10:30 p.m. ET ROSWELL, Ga.— Ray Burton isn't your typical insurance man. From a spot in the pharmacy section of a Wal-Mart Supercenter in this Atlanta suburb, the 44-year-old MetLife Inc. ...

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