Headline News Archive

2010

October

24

• Comparing the price of medical procedures. In bygone days, when more workers had comprehensive healthcare insurance, the price of medical procedures was not much of an issue. But now, with many

21

• Battle lines form in clash over foreclosures. About a month after Washington Mutual Bank made a multimillion-dollar mortgage loan on a mountain home near Santa Barbara, Calif., a crucial piece of paperwork

• A Republican plan to cut Social Security benefits hits high earners. A Republican plan to rein in the rising cost of Social Security would dramatically reduce retirement benefits for middle- and upper-income Americans, especially those now

20

• U.S. probes if banks broke federal laws during foreclosures. Federal investigators are exploring whether banks and other financial firms broke U.S. law when using fraudulent court documents to foreclose on people's homes, according

19

• Health care law fact check. The debate that preceded passage of the health-care overhaul has returned as a heated issue in the midterm elections. Politicians and advocacy groups seeking repeal

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• Living together? Time to legally protect your interests. Living together outside of marriage, once associated primarily with Hollywood celebrities and libertines, has become so common that if you tell your parents you're moving

• Avoid foreclosure market until dust settles. Are you out of your mind to even consider buying a foreclosed property right now? Todd Phelps and Paul Whitehead didn’t think they were

14

• Insurance giant accused of misrepresenting cancellation practices. Los Angeles city prosecutors Wednesday accused the parent company of insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross of California of falsely stating that it had changed its

11

• Five unnecessary bank and credit card fees. Avoiding overdraft and over limit fees by refusing to opt-in to the new "protection" plans banks are hawking is just the tip of the iceberg

10

• What to expect this open-enrollment season. Many workers during open enrollment usually stick with whatever medical plan they had the year before, but health care reform may change that. About two-thirds

09

• After foreclosure, a focus on title insurance. When home buyers and people refinancing their mortgages first see the itemized estimate for all the closing costs and fees, the largest number is often

07

• Foreclosure fraud? Ohio vs. GMAC may have ripple effect. Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray Wednesday filed a civil lawsuit against GMAC Mortgage and its parent, Ally Financial, alleging they used fraudulent affidavits and documents

• Waivers address talk of dropping health coverage. As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance —

• Foreclosure controversy: problems deeper than flawed paperwork. Millions of U.S. mortgages have been shuttled around the global financial system - sold and resold by firms - without the documents that traditionally

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• Phone insurance doesn't pay for most users. If you've bought a cellphone recently, your head is probably still swimming. There is a seemingly endless array of new phones with an equally endless

• Revisiting foreclosures aids homeowners but clogs market. On Florida's west coast, where the housing bust has flooded courts with foreclosure filings, the chief judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit has little sympathy

04

• Title insurer stops writing policies for some foreclosures. Old Republic National Title Insurance, among the nation's largest title insurance companies, will no longer write new policies for homes foreclosed upon by J.P.

03

• Be wary of help with minimum payments. Some credit card issuers offer payment protection programs that promise to cover or suspend monthly minimum payments if you fall on hard times. Such offers

September

30

• Chase to freeze foreclosures over flawed paperwork. J.P.Morgan Chase, one of the nation's leading banks, announced Wednesday that it will freeze foreclosures in about half the country because of flawed

28

• Health care reform starting to help consumers. If you've lost your job or decided to go into business for yourself, you're probably well aware of the difference between group and individual insurance

26

• New healthcare law: know your options. New healthcare rules that went into effect last week offer both opportunities and risks for consumers. With open-enrollment season looming, it may be time to

23

• Big changes to your health insurance. September 23 marks the six-month anniversary of health reform. It's also the date when several key insurance changes come into effect. Here's what you need to

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• FHA modifies loan standards. Recent changes on FHA loans and how they will affect borrowers and sellers: Upfront insurance premium What is it? A fee the Federal Housing Administration

• Health insurers to stop offering child-only policies. Some of the country's most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new

• Medicare 'doughnut hole' relief may be offset by higher drug prices. f you've ever seen a sale advertising 50 percent off, you might have wondered if the retail price was ratcheted up to make the discount possible.