New iPhone app targeted at life insurance

July 26th, 2010

Thanks to Omnium, a software company located in Sydney, Australia, getting life insurance has just become a little easier for those with an iPhone.

Consumers with the Apple device can now get life insurance quotes through their phones by downloading the Omnium application. Instantly, users can receive quotes from 12 different insurers on the go.

“iPhone apps or mobile phone apps in general are beginning to shape the way people consume, so we thought it was necessary to leverage the online solutions we have already developed for the industry into a quick and easy-to-use iPhone app,” Omnium founder David King told Insurance Rate. Read more…

Today’s News: Employers Urged to Expand Health Plans, Medicare Doughnut Hole Checks Coming and the Nation’s Dumbest Drivers May Live Near You

July 26th, 2010

The secretary of Health and Human Services is urging employers to hurry and expand their health insurance benefits plans to employees with older children, while the government announces that Medicare checks may be mailed soon to beneficiaries into the “doughnut hole.” And in auto insurance news, GMAC has taken time to tell you where you can find the nation’s dumbest drivers.

Employers Urged to Offer Coverage to Children Up to Age 26 ASAP

Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, urged employers to begin immediately offering or continue to offer health insurance coverage to employees’ children up to the age of 26 — and they need to do it at little or no additional cost. While the

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The Way To Obtain Young Driver Insurance Quotes

July 23rd, 2010

You can get scientific evidence that undoubtedly confirm that good judgement is displayed more from skill and by no means is it totally developed in teenage children till their late adolescence. Which means in-spite of the very fact they begin driving cars when they are seventeen, their brains are nonetheless not absolutely prepared for the actual act of driving till they’re older by in the region of three or four years later. Furthermore that is exactly the explanation why insurance businesses charge such high rates for their car insurance.

There are several ways in which you can try and get hold of low cost car insurance for your teenagers. Read more…

Today’s News: Two-thirds of Arkansas Kids Uninsured, Age Influences Auto Policy Purchases and Achy Joints May Require Disability Insurance

July 22nd, 2010

Health care reform may need to kick in soon to help the two-thirds of Arkansas kids who are currently living without health insurance. In other news, it seems that decisions made with auto insurance policy purchases are determined by age and those who have the normal achy joints may need disability life insurance.

Two-thirds of Arkansas Kids Go without Health Insurance

As lawmakers try to work out the kinks of health care reform to try to offer health insurance to millions of Americans, nearly 70 percent of children in Arkansas suffer without coverage. A children’s advocacy group says the state needs to do a better job of making sure they’re insured. A re

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Airport Delay – What Will You Do? Count on International Travel Insurance

July 22nd, 2010

Recently, a security breach caused a shutdown at the Providence Rhode Island airport. The breach occurred when a passenger made it past security without being checked out, and the incident goes to show that delays can occur even at the smallest airports.With that in mind, how can you avoid, or recover from, time-consuming delays at the airport? International travel insurance offers the best solution to this problem.

Even a short delay on an international flight can cause you to miss a connection, costing you time and money. Read more…

Benmosche says AIA change puts ‘best team on field’

July 19th, 2010

NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—Robert Benmosche, the American International Group Inc. CEO who replaced the head of the insurer’s main Asia unit, said the change was needed to prepare for the division’s initial public offering.

Mark Tucker was named head of AIA Group Ltd. Monday, replacing Mark Wilson, 43. Mr. Tucker has 15 years of experience building the Asia operations of competitor Prudential P.L.C., Mr. Benmosche told employees Monday in a letter obtained by Bloomberg. AIG is proceeding with an IPO of the Hong Kong-based business after a $35.5 billion agreement to sell AIA to Prudential collapsed in May.

“It is critical that we put the best team on the field to ensure the success of AIA’s IPO,” Mr. Benmo Read more…