What Are The Benefits Of Health Savings Plans?

You can protect yourself against catastrophic medical expenses, and keep you ahead of any future medical events with medical savings plans. It can also help to lower health care costs. There are many medical savings plans available today, including the HSA. The HSA, which is a health savings account, is intended to lower the cost of health care […]

The Hidden Cost of Insurance Fraud

According to the insurance association, about one-fifth of all cases of health care fraud involve consumers. Only a small fraction of all cases involve providers. Greg Anderson, director for corporate finance investigations at Blue Cross-Blue Shield Michigan, says that consumer fraud is something Greg does not take lightly. “We have 4.5million customers, and if each one of them […]

The Next Generation of Multi-Discipline Practice Fraud

Multi-discipline fraud is evident in the rise of practices that were created by practice building consultants to avoid or eliminate limited chiropractic insurance coverage. They are often associated with an MD. This type of practice is now less popular due to increased scrutiny and investigative interest on the part third party payers as well as state […]

Insurance Issues For the “Subject To” Deal

This is a common misunderstood problem: how to correctly insure “subject to” property. It is obvious that the “Due on Sale (DOS)” clause will be invoked, and the mortgage company will call the note. Despite being complex, there are some common sense rules of thumb that usually apply. Be the “first named insurance” if you or your company […]

Insurance the “American” Way

The definition of “American way” will determine whether or not a particular type of carrier does business in the American manner. There is no one accepted definition of the term. Some definitions would exclude state funds. Others would exclude mutuals and reciprocals. Other definitions would also exclude Lloyd’s of London. However, other definitions would include all carriers that do business […]

The Introduction of the Prudential of London

It is known that President Dryden of Prudential and President Knapp of Metropolitan were both close friends of Prudential of London. Both were able to see the operation of the business firsthand when they went to London. They were treated with every kindness by Stewart L. Woodford (the Metropolitan’s Attorney), and Mr. Knapp. They returned with a clear […]