Headline News Archive

2010

September

16

• Your car is at 100,000 miles. Now what?. It was once a huge red flag: When a car's odometer would hit 100,000 miles, "it was almost a magic threshold that meant the car was

• Warren to head launch of financial protection bureau. President Obama, sidestepping a possibly heated confirmation battle, will appoint Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren as a special advisor to the Treasury Department to launch

14

• Consumers say they don't want letter grade fuel stickers. Consumers apparently want the EPA's proposed letter grading fuel economy sticker to take a seat in the dunce chair. The Environmental Protection Agency has given

07

• Healthcare reforms don't go far enough. Ruta Vaisnys just got the word from Blue Shield of California: Her monthly health insurance premium will rise by more than 28% to $243 beginning next month.

02

• California's safety-net health insurance premiums rise. As state leaders blast giant health insurers for raising rates, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration has quietly allowed hefty increases for thousands of sick or jobless

August

31

• Be skeptical of health-care credit cards. These days, you may leave your dentist's office with more than a toothbrush and dental floss in your bag. Thousands of dentists are offering patients

26

• Quest for the perfect credit score. A major league pitcher dreams of throwing a perfect game. High schoolers eyeing the Ivy League study furiously in hopes of earning 2400 on the SAT.

20

• A health insurance lesson for students. Unless your soon-to-be-roommate mentioned on Facebook that she has a mysterious and potentially contagious rash, you probably haven't given much thought to what you'll do

• Fatalies on the job fell in 2009. The total number of fatal workplace injuries fell by 17 percent last year, to 4,340, down from 5,214 in 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Thursday. The

• Health premiums shrink wages. Workers will pay more for their health care next year as U.S. companies prepare for provisions of the overhaul signed into law by President

18

• COBRA ends; insurance bill increases. Jennifer Richards of Park Ridge, Ill., is angry that her family's monthly health insurance bill tripled in August to $1,250 after her husband lost his job

16

• See the future of primary care. About 65 million Americans live in communities with a shortage of primary care doctors, physicians trained to meet the majority of patients' health care needs over

15

• New flood boundaries, higher premiums. One day your house is outside a hazardous flood plain - and the next day it's in, potentially costing you hundreds of dollars a year

13

• Insurance regulators face tough balancing act. A few months into a new job as a contract engineer, Jim Arey was stunned by an $8,000 bill he received for two doctor-administered infusions of

• Elizabeth Warren: poised to become borrower's best friend. Somewhere along the line, Elizabeth Warren became a symbol. She's either the plain-spoken, supremely smart crusader for middle-class families that her supporters adore, or she's

12

• Groups shed light on health care law. True or false: The new health care law will cut Medicare benefits for seniors. It will slash Medicare payments to doctors. It will ration health

11

• Travel surgeries: One way to cut health care costs. Tina Follett and her husband Patrick are in Panama on a two-week all-expenses paid trip. But Tina isn't on vacation. She's there to get surgery.

10

• NY AG probes health care credit cards. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo expanded his health-care credit card probe, which has included subpoenas to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Chase Health Advance, Citigroup

• Uninhabited or rented homes get different insurance coverage. n many neighborhoods around the country, "for sale" signs outnumber telephone poles, and some of those signs are looking awfully weather-beaten. Even owners of oceanfront

09

• Angry customers venting online. You've been cheated or mistreated by a business, and no one from the company seems to care. Now what? Thousands of jilted consumers have turned

07

• Demystifying emergency room bills. During a snowstorm last winter, my 6-year-old son fell and cut his chin — not outside on the ice, but inside on the tile bathroom floor.

05

• Regulators' top 10 investment scams. Investment scams always sprout during a recession, and con artists are reaping a big harvest in this economic downturn. "It's pretty bad out there," says

• Insecure about securities? Lawmakers hope studies will help. Within the massive financial reform package is a requirement for no fewer than seven studies intended to help protect individual investors. They fall under a

01

• Arbitration quietly closes doors of protest. Lease a car, enroll in a cell phone plan or finance the purchase of a major appliance, and you're likely signing away your rights. Most

July

30

• Health insurance rates: California plans crack down, but how hard?. As millions of Californians continue to cope with surging costs for health insurance, state lawmakers, consumer advocates and lobbyists in Sacramento are haggling over how