The new Cavalcade of Risk is up! The blog world's roundup of insurance and risk management is at Insurance Copywriter.
I like the InsureBlog story of a patient whose trips to a strip show cost her disability benefits.
Not in the cavalcade, but worth your while, is Lara [...]
A question in the comments of an old post:
I have been talking with an insurance professional, and she has told me that I can deduct my life insurance premiums through my S corp. She has mentioned doing this through owner distributions (draws). The life insurance is in my [...]
There's one segment of the healthcare industry that has avoided the soaring prices of the rest of the system -- cosmetic surgery. Congress can't stand an example of how health care can actually work when the government and insurance companies aren't involved, so they want to tax tummy tucks. [...]
The Financial Stability Act contains a number of provisions designed to address the problem of excessive compensation. Most are procedural. A huge exception is the prohibition on "excessive" compensation by financial institutions subject to FDIC insurance. We will discuss some of these requirements over the next several posts.
Subtitle E includes [...]
New reports show that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the institution responsible for bailing out troubled financial institutions so as to avoid nasty scenes like this one, may have overexerted itself during the latest financial crisis. According to the government corporation’s quarterly bank profile, a snapshot of the [...]
Remember this post about taxing plastic surgery? Well, it appears that the Senate, in its effort to tax everything possible to pay for health care reform (you’re right, I’m exaggerating, not everything… health insurance companies will make out okay) is forging ahead with its plan to [...]
The new Cavalcade of Risk is up at Healthcare Economist!
Among the many useful insurance and risk management posts there is the InsureBlog's explanation of the hidden link between heart attacks and double-decker buses. I would have suspected double-decker cheeseburgers, myself.
Speaking of risk management, [...]
Do you have a flexible savings account? Are you planning on claiming medical expenses as an itemized deduction? What about your workplace insurance plan; is it relatively expensive coverage?
Then you'll face some costs in the Senate's humongous health care reform bill.
I'm not kidding about the size, both [...]
A new proposal for financial regulatory reform was released today by Senator Christopher Dodd, who proposed creating a single U.S. bank regulator, stripping oversight authority from the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, would eliminate the Office [...]
I just received a notice last week from my health insurance provider that rates at my office would be increasing an average of more than 25%. It’s not unexpected. Apparently, health insurance is one of the few industries which can regularly raise their prices by double digits [...]
