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News Articles: Insurance

Men repair the brakes on a truck in the parking lot of an auto parts store in Middletown, Ohio, in 2024. Prices of car parts, car repairs and car insurance are expected to rise if tariffs remain in place.

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  • Your Money

Tariffs threaten to push auto insurance rates even higher

Between the slate of tariffs currently in effect and proposed tariffs on car parts, the cost of car ownership is rising. And that's true even if you're not in the market for a vehicle.

April 18, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske

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  • News

Georgia Today: Senate passes gun-tax holiday bill; Atlanta nightlife report; Insurance clawbacks

On the Thursday, Feb. 13 edition of Georgia Today: The Georgia Senate creates a tax holiday for guns, ammo and gun storage devices; Atlanta releases a new report on the economic impact of the city's night life industry; and a look at the impact of so-called insurance clawbacks.

February 13, 2025
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
A flooded home in Bainbridge, Georgia.

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  • Environment

Georgia ranks among most expensive states for future flood damage costs, new study finds

Homebuyers in Georgia can expect to rack up roughly $140,000 in flood damages over a 30-year mortgage.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
In the 2002 medical thriller <em>John Q, </em>Denzel Washington and Kimberly Elise play parents who learn that their 9-year-old son's heart transplant won't be covered by insurance.

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  • Movies

In the movies, villainous health insurers have been a chronic condition

For better or — mostly — worse, Hollywood has helped shape the public's image of the health insurance industry in films ranging from John Grisham's The Rainmaker to the Oscar-winning As Good as It Gets.

December 13, 2024
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
Costly hail storms and other disasters have contributed to a sharp rise in home and auto insurance premiums. A growing number of frustrated insurance customers are now shopping around in search of more affordable policies.

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  • Business

Soaring insurance rates send more people shopping for deals

Home and auto insurance premiums have been rising at double-digit rates. That's prompting even the most loyal insurance customers to shop around for better deals.

June 17, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Horsley

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  • Economy

Hazard maps: The curse of knowledge

What happens when small town politics collide with the climate crisis? And how do hazard maps—maps that show which homes in your neighborhood are at risk of getting destroyed or damaged by a natural disaster—come into play? On today's episode, how some people—from Indiana to Oregon to Alaska—are facing some very real concerns about insurance and the ability to sell their houses.

May 07, 2024
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By:
  • Nate Hegyi,
  • Wailin Wong,
  • and 2 more
Insurers say they need higher premiums from FL homeowners to offset mounting losses from hurricane claims, severe weather events and resulting increases in the cost of reinsurance.

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  • Business

Profiting off greater risk: the reinsurance game

When an insurance company can't cover all of its claims, it actually has its own insurance. This is called "reinsurance." How does that work and why do reinsurers look at their risk pool differently than say home or auto insurers?

Related episodes:
Why is insurance so expensive right now? And more listener questions (Apple / Spotify)
When insurers can't get insurance (Apple / Spotify)

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April 17, 2024
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By:
  • Paddy Hirsch,
  • Adrian Ma,
  • and 2 more
Last year, Elyse Greenblatt of New York City scheduled a telehealth appointment through her usual health system to see if her nagging congestion was COVID-19. The appointment turned out to be nearly $700.

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  • Health

When a quick telehealth visit yields multiple surprises beyond a big bill

For the patient, it was a quick and inexpensive virtual appointment. Why it cost 10 times more than she expected became a mystery.

December 19, 2023
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By:
  • Darius Tahir and
  • Emily Siner
In this Oct. 7, 2016 photo, a nurse provides assistance to the surgical staff at the Dr. Isaac Gonzalez Mart

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  • Health

Public insurance claim database will give a better look at health care access in Georgia

Georgia will join about half of all states that already have an all-payer claims database, or an APCD, by January. The database and visualizations to come were developed with support from the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

December 14, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Georgia State Capitol

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  • News

Former state workers charged with unemployment insurance fraud

Eight former state employees have been indicted on charges of unemployment insurance fraud allegedly committed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

August 05, 2023
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Georgia Human Services Commissioner Candice Broce, right, testifies in favor of a bill that would slow the flow of children into foster care on Feb. 16, 2023, at the Capitol in Atlanta. Broce has said that the insurer managing care for Georgia's foster children is denying too many requests for mental health care.

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  • News

Georgia Medicaid insurer denied psychotherapy for thousands

A newspaper finds that the insurance company that manages medical care for many Georgia children has denied or partially denied more than 6,500 requests for psychotherapy between 2019 and mid-2022.

April 11, 2023
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By:
  • Associated Press
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  • Health Care

Georgians with marketplace insurance aren’t guaranteed good access to care

Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid show almost 19% network inadequacy among a study group of over 600,000 people in Georgia enrolled in marketplace insurance.

February 08, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas

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  • Mental Health

Paying for mental health care leaves families in debt and isolated

A youth mental health crisis and a shortage of therapists and other care providers who take insurance are pushing many U.S. families into financial ruin. But it's rarely acknowledged as medical debt.

October 19, 2022
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
My 1999 Toyota Tacoma was stolen, crashed, and stripped for parts.

Tagged as: 

  • Economy

Someone stole my truck. I got a crash course on the wild black market for stolen cars

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, automakers began adopting an anti-theft technology that dramatically reduced car thefts. But why did it take so long?

August 23, 2022
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky

Tagged as: 

  • News

Wildfires disproportionately affect the poor, a UGA study says

A University of Georgia study finds that lower-income homeowners are at higher risk of wildfire losses and canceled homeowners insurance.

August 04, 2022
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
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