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 All the insurance acts that help to fight with international terrorism are going to be expired on December,31, 2014. Two representatives of the global law firm Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP insurance attorneys John P. Dearie, Jr. and Brian J. Green provided the source with the developments in this direction. 

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) tries to look for the new ways of its developing. The company is well-known for its high-end technology contracts. This time they want to make money on the market where customers don’t pay anything.

An "absurd" oil spill compensation payouts were launched by BP. For example, in a New Orleans court, BP gave an irrefutable evidences of businesses in industries far from the spill. The British oil and gas group had even to sold a substantial part of its business to pay reparations and fines for the disaster.

The new head of the National Weather Service wants the USA to achieve the European level of the weather forecasting as it can prevent a lot of losses for the insurance area. 

The European parliament is going to cooperate with the USA as the new way of negotiations is demanded. Europe and the U.S. can create a free market for 800 million people and in such a way counter the power of China thanks to a transatlantic trade deal. Now Brussels and Washington are on the track of negotiations as it can open new possibilities for both sides.

The following situation was tracked by the independent researchers at St. Louis hospital. They’ve been checking the hospital’s system for two years. And many interesting facts were found out. The number of hospitalizations among the employers and the members of their families increased.

The well-known Newtown school massacre provided the wave of measures all around the Connecticut state. To protect responders, educators and other workers that suffered in that terrible accident the Connecticut lawmakers decided to create a special charitable fund.

The Mississippi state suffered a lot in 2011 when the great flood occurred and provoked a lot of damages in the area. The total cost of the damages is about $2.8 billion.

This is the point of view stated by Dan Epstein, CEO of ReSourcePro.

The Insurance Australia Group reported about the insurance profit of $815 million for the half-year period. In comparisong with the first half of 2012 when the profit was only $276 million the last numbers are rather high. The Managing Director Mike Wilkins, for example, thinks that such positive changes were achieved thanks to reflecting of a strong business.

An idea of dividing California map into 6 regions for rating health insurance services as well as some other important questions is going to be discussed by heads of the state on Wednesday.

The frauds in insurance sphere are not a surprise nowadays. So Wisconsin insurance agency executive was condemned for five years in prison for a fraud schemes.

India want to ensure its refiners to have insurance for plants running crude from Iran, Though the government is still afraid to be halted with the Iran’s economy.

The repercussions after the greatest hurricane in USA history called Sandy are so astounding that it makes people feel fear only when they hear its name. The national economics still is on the way of renovation.

Modern insurance field needs reforming and improving as the last researches showed. Much attention is payed to the using of mobile devices in insurance. Most of insurance companies try to create such possibilities for the policyholders to keep their interest as well.

As the Insurancenewsnet.com reported: last year the state DFS (Division of Financial services) required local life insurance companies of New York to look for unclaimed beneficiaries. The result of this investigation was no less than $665.7 unclaimed benefits which have already been paid out. 

The school sports became very popular among American children. But still this sphere needs reforming and improving. Schools need new equipment, well-prepared trainers and coaches. A lot of youth organizations disagree with such treating from the officials.

As soon as news about decline in U.S. economy in the fourth quarter of 2012 appeared insurance market showed an increase of requests for life insurance quotes in the new year.

A new legislation was proposed by democratic lawmakers on Tuesday in California requiring all gun possessors to get
liability insurance to ensure coverage of any damage their weapon may cause.

As all we know not so long ago new changes in the healthcare system were introduced. President suppose that these reforms will help to improve the healthcare field and it’ll ease people’s lives . There are 50 states but only 11 of them are involved into the reforming.

The system of small businesses in the USA is really developed though it has some pros and cons. After analyzing the small business system it was found out that only some businessmen propose insurance profits to their workers. Maybe it was provoked by the economic crisis when a lot of little firms have to close. Those that appeared after tried to replace them and tried to take their position.

A lot of Americans suppose that they have some reasons to be afraid of new changes that would come with Obama’s Healthcare Law. The President found many deficiencies in the system of healthcare insurance and that was the main reason to reform this field of insurance. But what do people should wait for with new law providing? Would it ease citizen’s life or even provoke new wave of scandals?

It has been found that there will be certain changes in the insurance brokerage sector in 2013. The experts are sure that the number of merges and acquisitions will be different. The major causes of these changes are connected not only with market and economic factors, but also with demographic factors that have an enormous impact on deals.

It is known that workers’ compensation insurance guarantees medical care and financial support to the workers injured in the workplace. Today worker's compensation insurance system in New York is not perfect and can be viewed as the most hostile in the USA.

Analyzing the situation in the insurance field some noticed great changes in this system. People even try to trick insurance organizations and provoke accidents themselves. Such strange situation happened in Florida.

Life insurance plays a significant role in our society. LIMRA is a highly recognized research and consulting organization that assists in professional development providing insurance companies and financial service organizations with the appropriate knowledge to achieve marketing and distribution success on the competetive market. As reported on the website insurancenewsnet.com, one of the recent LIMRA project was focused on providing a special life insurance IQ testing to more than 4,000 American citizens. The major purpose of this project was to learn more about their knowledge of the significance of life insurance. The results of the testing showed that less than 1/3 of the participants (or about 1200 persons) successfully passed testing that consisted of 10 questions about life insurance. It has been found that over 55 % of the participants answered less than 5 questions without mistakes. As reported on the website insurancenewsnet.com, the following factors indicated on the high IQ on life insurance: the existence of the individual’s life coverage, the use of effective sources of information (seminars, booklets and others), the individual’s age, education and confidence in life insurance companies.

Major figures of the insurance industry consider that Washington’s continuous dispute and fight around government budget will have negative influence on the U.S. economy. According to the report of Insurance Information Institute 95% executives in the property / casualty industry believe in it. Plus 74% of them suppose that federal government will increase its supervision of insurance industry in the near future. And only 23% of executives think the U.S. economy today is «on the right track».

As an Insurance Journal reported
2012 gave new possibilities for many fields. Insuring policy formed under the influence of the world economical crisis. So, many states improved the ways of giving policies to the individuals. As a result, the following situation appeared. In Louisiana many claims from individuals helped to recover the insurance situation.

In the beginning of 2013 some insurance companies of the USA made big mergers. As reported news.yahoo.com, US Insurance Source and Springtree Group have announced about the acquisition of two Houston insurance agencies. US Insurance Source is a big, strong, stable, reliable, proven in the insurance sector.

How is reporting Insuranceheadlines , US congress votes on %9.7 billion flood insurance package for victims of Superstorm Sandy. Many business and home owners, which were flooded by Superstorm Sandy could get insurance payouts. The FEMA(Federal Emergency Management Agency) warned the government about the chance of running out of money next week, if Congress won't give additional money to pay out claims. The lawmakers from the Northeast say, that they need the money very urgently for those victims which awaiting the claim checks from the terrible Sandy Storm. This storm brought the worst flooding, that was occured in New Jersey, Atlantic City, Long Island and New York city. It ravaged the coast along North Carolina and Maine. Rep.Frank Lobiondo from New Jersey said, that people are waiting to be paid, whose district and other coastal communities were hard damaged by the storm. He said, that they're sleeping on cots in rented rooms and they are not happy. They want their houses and property back. They don't see any prospect of relief. John Boehner, White House speaker has promised a House vote on friday, because of Northeast Republicans which provoked outrage, including Gov. Chris Christie from New Jersey, who said, that he has lost trust in GOP leaders after unimplemented promise of vote. About $2.3 billions has been sent on relief efforts by Federal Reserve for 11 states that were struck by the storm. Connecticut, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland, New Hampshire, Delaware, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsulvania, New York is already receiving FEMA aid.

Online Insurance Programs are widespread in the United States today. In this article I will tell you about two of them.
At first, I would like to consider Online Insurance Programs for Flower Shops and Bakeries. As reported news.yahoo.com, Online Insurance Programs for Flower shops and Bakeries were launched by USA Business Insurance to address the needs of these small businesses in December 2012. Businesses in these areas have specifics like any other. For this reason owners of flower shops and bakeries need insurance policy different from other.

url=http://finance.yahoo.com/news/united-insurance-holdings-corp-announces-133000224.html]This press release published finance.yahoo.com.[/url] Insurance Holdings Corp declared that puts on the market of 750 000 recently issued usual stocks at the price of $5.15. United Insurance Holdings Corp expects to get cumulative net profit about of $3.7 million from sale of additional actions. This sum turns out after subtraction of the estimated expenses, guarantee discounts and the commissions. Closing of sales of additional actions will happen, most likely, on January 8, 2013. All this will allow to bring consolidated net proceeds of the company to $27.6 million.
The statement according to this offer was declared effective by the Commission on securities and the exchanges on December 10, 2012.

Insurance Holdings Corp declared that puts on the market of 750 000 recently issued usual stocks at the price of $5.15. United Insurance Holdings Corp expects to get cumulative net profit about of $3.7 million from sale of additional actions. This sum turns out after subtraction of the estimated expenses, guarantee discounts and the commissions. Closing of sales of additional actions will happen, most likely, on January 8, 2013. All this will allow to bring consolidated net proceeds of the company to $27.6 million.
The statement according to this offer was declared effective by the Commission on securities and the exchanges on December 10, 2012.

The most popular theme in 2013 is strong frames of today markets. Today industry and service should fitting for becoming stronger law’s, moreover every product should access markets “natural selection”. Insurance services are not exception.
There is main regulation very actual for any product and service in 2013, it sounds “Flexible in the face of change”. Some of well-known life insurance policies are addicted to lose their positions, because of few important changes in insurance laws and their market positions. One of those insurance services is Guaranteed Universal Life, special coverage contracts with secondary paragraphs in case of death. GUL interest is falling down in society, because of expensive regular payments, and excessive requirements on the financial condition of client. National Association of Insurance Commissioners aggravates the situation around Universal Life insurance, approved Actuarial Guideline 38. Response on Actuarial Guideline 38 will be increasing of GUL payments.

How is reporting Insurance Journal, right after the Senate's approving a similar borrowing authority increase by $60 billion for Superstorm Sandy victims, quickly approved the $9.7 billion for the National Flood Insurance Program by unanimous consent. There are about 114.000 people, that are waiting for their claims in the Northeast from Sandy. Approximately in Jan 7, NFIP will run out of funds and they would not be able to pay Superstorm Sandy claims. Some experts say, that damage dealt by Superstorm Sandy, could generate about 139.000 claims, but if the government won't increase in the borrowing authority, only little number of this claims can be covered, it's about 12.000, said Charles Symington, the vice president of government affairs.
The government is planning to take up the supplemental aids for Sandy victims by $51 billion on Jan 15. Jimi Grande, senior vice president of federal for NAMIC said, that the country need to mitigate the damage from future storms like Sandy, by encouraging stronger state building codes, it will prevent the damage dealt by future storms like Sandy. The stronger building codes have reduced the wind damages by 80 percent. If the people will start to build more secure buildings, it will recoup just after the new storm appear. Using strong building codes, the government can reduce the disaster aid spending approximately by $11 billion, according to the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center.
Grande said, that as they help the victims of Superstorm recover, the Congress can start to help the victims of the future catastrophe by encouraging the building of more secure houses.

Despite the fact that no hurricane made any significant damage over the state of Florida for seven years, property insurance is getting more and more expensive.
According to FloridaToday.com, the average Florida businessman or homeowner is paying almost 100% more than six years ago and, in some districts, the growth is even more serious.
One of the most significant players of Florida insurance market is Citizens, well-known Florida property Insurance Corporation, founded in 2002. According to the information on its official website www.citizensfla.com, there are more than 1 million of customers – it is significant number for state’s market.
However, many of its customers are getting the idea of changing their insurer on private companies. The reason for this moving is Citizens’ statement to increase premium on all its products on 16.4 percent in 2013. According to Mr. John Rollins whose words are published on the FloridaToday.com:

Last year 2012 was fulfilled with challenges of all types that touched everyone on this planet in some way. The source www.insurancejournal.com, presented to audience a list of those remarkable events that lighted the headlines of insurance world in 2012. Some of the most unforgettable of them could be found bellow:
1) The final calculation of losses from the flooding in Thailand skyrocketed up to 15 billion, not counting the losses for business and various industries;
2) Natural disasters in Italy (Costa Concordia), GB (flooding) and Australia (flooding) once again pointed out on the damages and losses that can be brought by such events;
3) Pirate attacks nearby Somalia continued to disturb the situation in the region;
4) Global crisis continued to influence the insurance business throughout the whole world;
5) The Olympic Games in London heavily involved insurance industry. Fortunately, no major deals were noted;
6) Global warming causes the continuing shrinking of Arctic Ice cap, and that appears to become the huge problem not only for the insurance industry, but the whole world itself;
7) New risks appear along with fast developing of IT technologies and now the insurance companies have to deal with this type of events;
8) The storm named Sandy was, no doubt, the most devastating and deadly in 2012. The event which could be described only in movies came true. It covered huge territory and caused huge losses.
Described above is only a short list of global disasters and events that took place in 2012. Along with many others they made a great impact on insurance industry and showed how relevant it is nowadays. Facing all such devastating challenges, it has to undergo some critical changes that are to create the new model of global insurance system.

If you don not have money for own flat or house it is not a surprise that you will go to the bank or to another lender in purpose to get a loan for such expansive purchasing. You must give many documents to get it and very often the lender ask to pay mortgage insurance because it minimized creditor's risk. Undoubtedly you should know what questions you may face with after you will have signed mortgage insurance agreement. Goerie.com stated five main things about private mortgage insurance and you should draw attention on them.
First at all you should know that lender usually requires PMI on the first stage of crediting when it gives you loan because the amount of loan is very big and it is huge risk for creditor.
Goerie.com stated

Insurance Journal reported
As reported Insurance Journal, all the Gulf Coast was impregnated with huge thunderstorms that brought heavy, sleet rains, fast and damaging winds, which made the weather on Gulf shore very terrible. A lot of roads were covered with the ice, creating the problems for drivers.
In Mississippi, Gov. Phil Bryant persuaded citizens to have a life saving plan if the weather would be severe.

Investors.com reported that eHealth, Inc. ( NASDAQ : EHTH ) will introduce their private terms at this year J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

The year of 2012 was full of different occasions concerning insurance. Mostly, they were not very pleasant. So, there is a question: what will bring to us the next year and should we prepare for something worse? As it is reported on news.investors.com:

Every day we hear on the news about the various natural disasters. Nowadays, it became extremely hard to predict such natural phenomenon as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, hard snowfall, avalanche, flood, drought, landslides, or global warming in general. Weather threatening is very widespread through over the North America. In the United States of America, the ones that lead to the great damage even called names of persons (Sandy, Katrina etc). Have you thought about who is going to pay the bills? For example, only famous hurricane Sandy alone did more then eighty billion dollars worth of damage to New York and New Jersey. The insurance industry also sustain a loss of millions dollars. That forces almost all of lead insurance companies extend their examination of reaction to climate changes. In order to better quantify, estimate and diversify their risks, a lot of companies use climate science. So they can more accurately estimate their loss-prevention efforts, price, communicate risk and target adaptation. Some of insurers try to analyze their extensive databases of different historical weather-related or climate-related losses for undesirable events. However insurance modeling is something different. Insurers modeling extrapolate historical data, whereas climate models simulate the system. So we can say that insurers’ models are more appropriate to short-time and finer scales frames. This initiative will serve as a basis for determining (at the level of individual countries and regions) investment priorities in such areas.

Fiscal Cliff – it is a modern saying, which means code of laws, which automatically will take effect in the United States of America since the 1st January 2013 on condition that government will not find any other solutions. According to these laws, taxes will extend for most taxpayers in order to decrease the deficit in the budget of the country.
In order to solve this problem House Speaker Boehner and President Obama met last Friday (23.12.12) in the White House. It was long negotiations but at least they did agree to do something. What exactly they agreed, nobody knows.
As it is written on insurancenewsnet.com:

The growth in health care costs started to slow by 2012, as managed care plans began to dominate the market. Throughout the remainder of the 2000’s, costs generally kept pace with domestic economic growth, resulting in a comparatively stable health-spending share of the national income. This slowdown in the inflation of health care costs, however, was relatively short-lived. Even as early as 2012, the U.S. federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, formerly the Health Care Financing Administration) forecasted that health care costs would rise again, anticipating that they would average 1.8% more than the growth in the GDP through 2013-2015. These forecasts will likely have been too conservative. According to health.usnews.com:

Buying something we rarely think about how our purchase is insured against fraud. Especially important and at the same time dangerous it looks like from the point of view of the online shopping. As practice shows upcoming holidays are the perfect moments for activation of different kind of cyber crooks. As it is written on forbes.com: