Survivors to get little help from insurers
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MUMBAI: For survivors who lost relatives and property in the tsunami, there may not even be the compensation of an insurance claim to ease their suffering.
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations, as just a small number of eligible patients
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You may not be able to stop disaster from striking, but you can keep it from devastating your finances.
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Nearly one in five children's hospitals are not providing round-the-clock, life-support cover.
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Residents and businesses devastated by November's ink factory explosion in Danvers may band together to try to hammer out a compensation deal without resorting to a potentially massive and prolonged lawsuit.
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A move by insurers to stop compensating people with a condition showing asbestos exposure fails.
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If Hurricane Charley blows your house down, how can you make your insurance company pay?
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As candidates drop out, survivors try to secure support, and money, from backers left in cold.
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Losses for the global insurance industry from the devastating earthquake and tsunami waves in Southeast Asia -- where the death toll is in the tens of thousands -- are likely to be sharply below claims from the hurricanes in Florida this year, as the regions hit over the weekend are generally underinsured, analysts said yesterday.
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U.S. companies are expected to  contribute hundreds of millions of dollars in relief aid to  tsunami-hit Asia, but some may be slower to help since the  sudden disaster struck during a holiday season, company  executives and charity experts said on Wednesday.
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A new program to help delinquent mortgage borrowers stave off foreclosure doesn't really help much, according to some experts.
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Insurers are braced to pay out at  least $5 billion in claims for devastation caused by Hurricane  Charley, making the storm the second most costly after  Hurricane Andrew, industry and government officials said on  Monday.
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A small but growing number of American families beset by major medical problems are learning the hard way that simply having health insurance is sometimes not enough.
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Send money, not supplies, if you want to help victims of the earthquake and tsunami near the Indian Ocean, relief organizations report.
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Description: The devastation of hurricane Andrew in 1992 put a number of insurance companies in the red. To prevent further financial wreckage, insurers have revamped the industry so that they pay less of
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Minimally trained financial advisers frequently provide counsel they are not qualified to offer, advocates for the elderly say.
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Business & money: Hit by the bad weather? Lisa Bachelor offers advice on dealing with your insurer.