An aerial view of repair vehicles at sunset passing near beachfront homes that burned in the Palisades Fire as wildfires cause damage and loss through the LA region on January 15, 2025 in Malibu, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Midway through December, tech entrepreneur Dan Preston debuted insurance startup Stand’s first product focused on […]
Since proactive climate initiatives are falling by the wayside within insurance companies, Nicole says there are ways for people to get involved to help those who live in high-risk areas: • “Keep an eye on state bills addressing climate adaptation, disaster resilience, or insurance reform, and support these efforts through public comments or by contacting […]
The Waystar team celebrates its IPO at the Nasdaq 2024 Nasdaq, Inc. / Vanja Savic Health-care payments company Waystar on Monday announced a new generative artificial intelligence tool that can help hospitals quickly tackle one of their most costly and tedious responsibilities: fighting insurance denials. Hospitals and health systems spend nearly $20 billion a year […]
Lloyd and his wife later bought another home in Hidden Valley Lake, a town that has taken ambitious steps to reduce flammable vegetation, but their insurance premium is still more than $4,500 a year, more than triple what it was on their last home in Kansas. Lloyd is worried that his insurance company will hike […]
Zillow shares climate risk data, provided by First Street, on property listings across the U.S. so … [+] buyers can understand flood, wildfire, wind, heat and air quality risks. Zillow While home buyers are facing home prices that are at historic highs in most markets along with mortgage rates that are higher than they have […]
Luigi Mangione, the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is led from the Blair County Courthouse after an extradition hearing Dec. 10, 2024 in Hollidaysburg, Pa. Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is a profoundly revealing moment in American politics. Not only has it opened the floodgates of public […]
Latinos in the United States are less likely to have adequate health insurance than Americans overall, according to a new survey from health research nonprofit The Commonwealth Fund. The nonprofit found that 46 percent of Latinos in the U.S. of working age have health insurance for the whole year and are not underinsured, according to…
In one particularly testy exchange on a conspiracy theories subreddit, two hair stylists clashed over Mangione’s eyebrows. “I was a hairstylist for 20 years back in the day, no one’s eyebrows grow that fast in three days,” one user wrote. “It was on the state board test. Hair on your head grows a quarter of […]
Mark Cuban Says, ‘I Don’t Know Cars Or Rockets,’ But Schools Elon Musk On How American Health Insurance Works When Elon Musk took to X to question why Americans aren’t “getting their money’s worth” despite the United States leading the world in health care administrative costs, Mark Cuban stepped in with some tough truths. Cuban, […]
A few years ago I was invited to a lavish dinner with dozens of the most powerful CEOs in America. I had been asked to moderate a panel on social media earlier in the evening, and then was offered a seat at a table, where I was joined by the leaders of tech giants, major […]
