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5 Basic Insurance Mistakes to Avoid

Having basic insurance coverage is essential. If you don't apply for insurance, know that it will be a big mistake. Therefore, you may want to have enough coverage to meet your needs. Also, it's important that you realize the importance of insurance. Given below are a few common mistakes that you may want to avoid when it comes to buying insurance. Ignoring the Importance of Basic Insurance You must have at least basic insurance. For instance, it can protect you in case of car theft and accidents. In addition, basic health insurance can help you save on your medical bills. If you can't go for a comprehensive policy, make sure you get a catastrophic or deductible plan. According to the Affordable Care Act, you must have health insurance. Otherwise, you may have to face fines at the time of filing your taxes. The health plan you opt for should meet your minimum requirements. A plan designed for disability protection, for instance, can protect you if you fall seriously ...

Social Security in the 21st Century

Social security is one of the successes gotten by the Americans. The program provides a foundation of economics security for more than 47 million Americans and their families. The reason for the built in protections, we have come close to eliminating poverty among seniors. It also helps in the provision of basic income to millions of families who have suffered the death or disability of a wage earner. The financial security of social security is very strong. In 2003, it took in the rate of $161 billion more than it paid out in benefits. These programs have the resources to provide benefits for the baby boomers and their children and grandchildren. The security trustees predict that it will pay ever -increasing benefits through at least many more years to come when a surviving baby boomer will be mostly in his/her 80s and 90s. If the US economy long-term growth rate falls to half the level of the past 50 years, the trust fund may be depleted after 2042, but social security payroll ta...

Feeling Insured

Frequently considerations of decentralized technology's future social implications present freshly differentiated images of somehow superior methodologies that may be radically different than the present day. Yet the decentralized recording of centrally controlled operations could instead be a marked degradation to both the technology's potential and developmental promise. Without an equivalent preceding structural change, the introduction of decentralized technologies into established industries wishing to bolster rather than improve service offerings should give us all great cause for concern. In a factually based, well-known business school anecdote a case of one of the first life insurance claims is often repeated. Shortly after this type of policy became available a life insurance policy holder did indeed pass away during the applicability of his high-payout protection. When the family of the deceased attempted to claim, the insurer wrote a new definition of how their c...

How Modern Insurance Policy Systems Are Reinforcing the Insurance Industry

time insurers threw off the shackles of their legacy systems, which add to the oppression of market pressures by hampering the effectiveness of their operations. But to do so, they need to recognize the improved functionality and additional value a successful PAS transformation could bring to their businesses first. Truth is, not all are willing to realize the value from a flexible policy administration system (PAS) with its different modules. There's no doubt that the modern PAS is transforming the insurance industry and making it possible for insurers to regain lost ground through impacting its people, process and technology; while offering unmatched levels of availability, reliability and security. Among other things, insurers staying loyal to their legacy system must face some hard truths: 1. Gap between the Haves and Have-Nots: Insurers depend heavily on their legacy systems to support their core applications. They support day-to-day tasks like the issuing and servic...

Get An Auto Insurance Protection To Protect Yourself From Financial Hardship

It is just like other insurances which is used to protect your financial losses which have occurred to your vehicle. It is, insurance that can pay for accidental/no accidental damage happened to your purchased vehicle. Well!!!!! Buying insurance is more about buying a promise of someone, who assures you to regain your whole again if something wrong happen to your purchase. The Automobile is one of the largest investments you make in your life. Just imagine a world without auto insurance. The at-fault driver would have to pay some amount to the accident victim for pain or damage out of their pocket. And the people who are injured at no fault are entitled to have their car repaired, medical bills from resulting injuries and other injury-related expenses paid by the insurance of the person who was at fault. But if the person at fault does not have insurance coverage, then he/she have to pay for those expenses out of their wages. It Offers Different Levels of Cover For A Driver: U...

Usability, Accessibility, and Configurability in a SaaS-Based Portal Package

Insurers who resist change and continue to depend on their aged Policy Administration Systems are missing out on the amazing advantages offered to them by the new age SaaS-based PAS which offer amazing advantages and enhanced usability, accessibility and configurability. This article addresses these aspects and lists the advantages offered by a PAS to enhance the competitive edge of an insurer. All PAS systems do not offer such advantages and some actually fail to replace the legacy system, wasting the time and resources of an insurer and setting them back. Hence, it is important for an insurer to be well-informed and aware of the capabilities of a PAS and the benefits offered by adopting it. Insurers who stay dedicated to their timeworn Policy Administration Systems fail to realize that their devotion is affecting their competitiveness in the market by slowing their services down and restricting their ability to introduce new products to the market. One way to reverse this sl...

Could Claims Challenge Current InsurTech Priorities?

The insurance industry is witnessing a lot of change, driven by current technological trends, like the Internet of Things, Big Data and Analytics, Blockchain which are dynamically and irrevocably changing the way it functions. Let's look at the top trends impacting the industry and discuss the various challenges which are driving the current InsurTech priorities and see if we can call out the most important of them all. Every industry has its leaders and its laggards and the insurance industry is not an exception to this. Deep pockets are helping some insurers to take advantage of digital technologies to change the way they function and to: Offer new models and personalized products to meet changing customer expectations, which are driven by online retail sales models, Partner with technology players to ensure that they keep up with the emerging trends in technology and to take advantage of the Internet of things to adopt connected sensors or devices to collect data for loss p...