What is the most pressing problem facing the U.S. economy? A good case can be made for the developing health care crisis. Soaring costs, growing ranks of uninsured and a steady erosion of corporate health benefits add up to a ... [full story]

To the mantra of life’s certainties, add higher home-insurance rates to death and taxes. Increasingly, buying a vacation home means allotting more dollars to cover insurance premiums, as rates in coastal towns soar and insurance companies move to stop writing policies ... [full story]

Massachusetts' top securities regulator is investigating whether leased office space and other services that investment banks provide to hedge fund traders have created a conflict of interest that could hurt investors. Secretary of State William Galvin said in an interview yesterday ... [full story]

As the re-capitalisation exercise in the nation's Insurance sector approaches the terminal phase, organised Labour in the nation's financial industry, under the umbrella of Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance, and other Financial Institutions (ASSIBIFI), has tasked the regulator ... [full story]

Allstate Life Insurance Co. of New York admitted to violating a state rule by failing to tell customers shopping for replacement life insurance and annuity contracts about the risks and will pay an $18.25 million, the state Insurance Department said. The ... [full story]

Free medical care can help children get out of poverty, official says For years, Al Rohling watched parents quit their jobs when their kids got sick, deliberately making their incomes drop to a point where they could get U.S. government medical ... [full story]

Insurance rivals rev up advertising budgets and creative campaigns For three days last fall, Chicagoans were stunned as a frantic car chase careened around city streets, with a policeman in a 1971 Chevy Malibu tailing a 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass. The cars ... [full story]

Sun New Media Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SNMD.OB - News), a Chinese Internet based marketing, information and transactional services company linking businesses with businesses, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Shanghai Card Info Co. Ltd ... [full story]