Extreme weather catastrophes linked to climate change have made 2021 the second-most costly year on record for global insurance firms.
A 70-year-old coronavirus patient, Michael Flor, hospitalised for over two months and doctors did not believe he would survive. Flor beat the virus and received a million-dollar of hospital bill for it.
Wearing a black face mask and straw hat and sitting by the roadside, Martial Leotard, managing director of Les Ducs de Richelieu company, said his insurer, La Mutuelle de Poitiers Assurance, declined to compensate him.
The US healthcare system is clearly broken and the pandemic shows us why.
California Senator Kamala Harris took full advantage of the first debates between the nominees, changing the course of the presidential conversation within the Democratic fold.
The claims, so far, fall short of the record $12 billion in wildfire-related insured losses sustained in California in 2017.
Named after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the launch of 'Modicare' aims to provide free insurance to 500 million people in India.
As fire safety tests continue across England of some 600 buildings in the wake of the Grenfell blaze, at least 60 have already failed. The insurance industry says it warned the government of fire dangers a month before the London inferno.
The US Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) report says the number of people without health insurance will hit 24 million in 2026.
The Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," protects people with pre-existing conditions. But insurance companies don't want those people on their books, and likely won't have them if US President Donald Trump get his way.
As inauguration day approaches, people who live on the streets of the nation's capital wait, watch and worry about the risk of social and healthcare cuts.
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