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Invoice Discounting With Credit Insurance: A Practical Route To Working Capital
Amit Singhania | Cofounder and Director, Krystal Financial Consultants LLC. Businesses that sell on credit terms often face a familiar problem. Goods are shipped, invoices are raised, and the money owed sits on the books for 30, 60 or 90 days…
Health insurance isn't built to help you | Opinion
Health insurance is a system designed to make money. The system, they'll tell us, is full of moving parts and competing interests, and confusion is just the natural residue of a system that size. They're not entirely wrong. But the underlying…
A new name for a better way to buy health insurance
That puts employees, rather than employers, in control of their health insurance. Most workers don't have anything approaching that level of choice today. According to KFF, 66% of employers offering health benefits in 2025 offered only one type of…
Disaster insurance, datacenters, right to repair: meet the midterm candidates running on green policies
When Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a law erasing the words “climate change” from state statutes in May 2024 – colloquially known as the “don't say climate change” law – Democrats were outraged. Just…
What happens if your dog bites someone? Insurance experts explain
Dog bite insurance claims have soared, rising more than 25 percent from 2024 to 2025, a recent study found. The injuries cost the insurance industry $1.86 billion last year, with an average claim of $65,450, according to a new study from the…
Illinois said it was fixing access. It just blew up your insurance bill
No credible estimate appears to be publicly available for the additional annual insurer claims spending. NASW-IL reports that a DuPage County Health Department executive estimates that the law will help generate “hundreds of millions of…
Amundi Buys Two-Year Treasuries To Insure Against Growth Slowdown
Amundi SA, Europe's largest asset manager, is looking for opportunities in global bond markets after the recent selloff, and is buying two-year US Treasuries to protect against the risk of economic growth slowing due to elevated oil prices. The US…
Baldwin Insurance going private for $7.7 billion
Sequence Holdings and DFO Management (Michael Dell's family office) on Monday announced an agreement to acquire Baldwin Insurance Group for $7.7 billion. Why it matters: This is an AI spin on insurance industry consolidation, which is moving fast…
Here's How You Can Make Your Insurance Cover Root-Cause Care
If you've ever wondered why health care is filled with prices nobody can explain, why doctors only spend five minutes with you before sending you out the door with the most billable “treatment,” or why you can find a specialist…
Samsung's insurance policy against Google is costing me hours every week
Hold the side button on a new Samsung Galaxy and Google's Gemini answers you. Ask Samsung's browser to summarize a page, and you get Browsing Assist, which runs on Perplexity. Say 'Bixby' and a different conversational agent wakes up, one that also…
Farmers Insurance Urges Preparedness as NOAA Forecasts Potentially Historic El Niño for Fall and Winter
'National Preparedness Month — and the possibility of a historically strong El Niño — are important reminders that preparation should happen before severe weather enters the forecast,' said Bobby Massey, Head of Catastrophe…
The Meltdown in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Note: “An Arm and a Leg” uses speech-recognition software to generate transcripts, which may contain errors. Please use the transcript as a tool but check the corresponding audio before quoting the podcast. Dan: Hey there. Rachel…
Steve Mcbee Sr. Is Home from Prison After Serving Less Than a Year for Federal Crop Insurance Fraud
Steve McBee Sr. returned to his family's farm in Gallatin, Missouri, on Saturday and met his newest granddaughter, Tate, who was born while he was incarcerated. His sons Steven McBee Jr. and Cole McBee celebrated the reunion online, and Steve…
13 Cross-Industry Partnerships That Could Redefine Customer Value
Some of the best ideas for improving customer value may already exist—they're just being used in a different industry. An unconventional partnership can bring those ideas together in ways neither industry could achieve alone. By looking…
Cyber insurance gains ground in Singapore as coverage widens, premiums fall
SINGAPORE – In November 2025, two sales and operations staff from Singapore-based freight forwarding company UEI Logistics received an e-mail that looked entirely routine. It appeared to be from a Chinese shipping agency it had worked with…
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