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As President Barack Obama’s historic health care reform inches toward its final exam before the Supreme Court next month, a second front led by leaders of the Catholic Church has been growing against the Affordable Care Act.
Unlike the legal challenge by 26 states to the act’s “individual mandate” that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance

The poor pay more for auto insurance and that ain’t fair. That’s the executive summary of a new study by the Consumer Federation of America funded by the Ford Foundation that calls for an end to de facto price discrimination based on questionable rating factors.
CFA executive director Stephen Brobeck and director of insurance J. Robert

My recent blog concerning Allstate’s decision to drop 45,000 North Carolina customers who refused to “bundle” their homeowners and auto insurance policies with the company unleashed a firestorm of reader anger directed at the “Good Hands” people.
Here’s a sampling:
Evan: To HECK with ALLSTATE….3 yrs ago I owned a home in suffolk county,NY… In 2008 ALLSTATE contacted

Before you swallow that new drug prescribed by your doctor, wouldn’t you like to know whether the drug’s manufacturer recently treated your physician to an all-expenses-paid golf junket to Pebble Beach or Hilton Head to extol its miracle properties?
The pills-for-perks dance is commonplace in modern medicine, where based on appearances alone, one might easily conclude

Way back in the pre-now days, it could take years for consumer complaints to catch up with a company. But today, thanks to the now-ness of social media, corporations can lose millions overnight if they’re called out on Facebook or Twitter for an egregious policy or practice. Just ask Bank of America.
What’s a poor corporation

This March, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, which for the first time will require all Americans to obtain health insurance two years from now under a provision called the individual mandate.
If the nine justices rule that the individual mandate is unconstitutional, those 26 states challenging health care

Smack in the middle of most debates over the fate of that three-legged dog known as the National Flood Insurance Program has been the assumption that private flood insurance from the Allstates and State Farms of the world would prove far more expensive than government-issue.
Well, Houston, turns out we may have a problem with that

Despite a recent, strongly worded recommendation by the National Transportation Safety Board that calls for a nationwide ban on cellphone use, email and texting while driving, our current political paralysis makes the likelihood of that happening pretty remote.
Even if you remove politics from the equation, our track record of enforcing highway safety nationally isn’t encouraging. After all,

If shedding the holiday poundage tops your New Year’s resolution list and you happen to live in Colorado, one health insurance company will make it worth your while to be the biggest loser.
Taking its cue from the popular fat-burning TV series, Kaiser Permanente Colorado’s new “Weigh and Win” program offers cash to all adult Coloradans

What would happen if a major earthquake hit the Midwest? It turns out one did – three, actually – exactly 200 years ago this month, with their epicenter in New Madrid, a frontier trading post in southeastern Missouri about 150 miles downriver from St. Louis.
A new report from AIR Worldwide risk modeling used the bicentennial