Insurance experiment a costly lesson for town Gardena near ...
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A little over a decade ago, the small working-class city of Gardena was having trouble getting liability insurance, like a lot of other California towns, and it decided to take the kind of entrepreneurial leap municipalities were being encouraged to
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By Bruce Gerstman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.
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Dying of lung cancer, Carolyn Hobbs tried a new biotechnology drug that produced an unanticipated side effect: acute sticker shock. She was waiting for her second treatment in a hospital near Denver less than two years ago, when someone from the business office marched in to warn that her share would cost more than $18,000, since the drug wasn't insured for her type of cancer.
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For the price of a postage stamp, Valley residents can buy a lottery ticket for a chance to get a flu shot if they&#39;re at risk for complications from the virus.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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Joseph Glazier has seen the cost of his phone service double this year and his utility bills could do the same. He cannot ride the bus for free anymore. Subsidized prescriptions for his ailing eyes and ears have long since stopped.
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By Glenn Garvin, The Miami Herald  Sep.
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DURANGO, Colo. - Two teenage girls who surprised their neighbors with homemade cookies late one night were ordered to pay nearly $900 in medical bills for a woman who says she was so startled that she had to go to the hospital.
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You wouldn't ask your banker to  choose stocks for you, or your dentist to check out your bum  knee, even though their fields are related. So don't expect  your life insurance agent to answer all of your questions about  long-term care insurance.
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CHELSEA -- On a stretch of Everett Avenue between a lone flower shop and a garage advertising "Good Running $500 Cars," the only biotechnology plant in Chelsea is about to double down on its unusual bet in this old industrial city.
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The price of paradise is becoming too steep for some residents of A Garden Walk mobile home park, a community ravaged three times in about a year by tornadoes and hurricanes.
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The price of home insurance on Cape Cod and the tony islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket is soaring, but thousands of homeowners are being insulated from the price shocks by a state regulatory system originally set up to protect low-income residents of inner-city neighborhoods.
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New York and Connecticut officials say they are investigating whether improper behavior by insurance firms has been a factor in the rapidly rising cost of malpractice insurance for lawyers and doctors.
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By Amanda C. Tinnin, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.  May 28--GLEN CARBON -- Village residents may be paying more for their water and sewer service. But it's hard to tell how much more that will be.
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Keep your eyes peeled, and you might end up getting your new car covered, for free.
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Investing the wrong way can cost you dearly.
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Investors are wary of insurance guarantees for some bonds issued by cities to fund capital projects.