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Showing posts with label insurance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insurance. Show all posts

What that auto insurance card in your wallet means...

Just about everyone with auto insurance has been through the drill: Do you want collision? Comprehensive? Personal injury protection? GAP coverage?

To help figure out what's what, we've prepared this guide. It includes a list of companies to check with to if you can't find coverage due to a poor driving record, for example. It also explains things like why car insurers are allowed to charge different rates based on age, say, or gender.

Perhaps most importantly, the guide includes a list of tips to reduce your cost.

Legislation wrap-up: new rules for flood insurance, organ transplants, annuities and discount health plans

Get your medical bills lowered.” A solution so simple, it’s brilliant.” “The savings do not stop there.”

As people struggle to find affordable health care, many are turning to discount health plans. And some buyers, who mistakenly think they’ve bought insurance coverage with full benefits, are discovering that the discounts are much more limited than they thought.

Several new laws, including one requiring more regulation and disclosure for such plans, took effect yesterday. The others include laws shortening the insurance waiting period for some people getting organ transplants, consumer-protection changes involving flood insurance, and new rules for annuities.

Click here for more information on the specifics.

Welcome

Welcome to the blog of the office of the Washington state Insurance Commissioner.

We'll be trying some tech things here over the next couple of weeks, so you'll see some test posts, etc.