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Michigan recently passed a law that prevents public entities from providing health insurance for the same-sex domestic partners of employees. The ACLU is fighting this law on behalf of school teachers and city and county workers whose domestic partners will lose their health insurance coverage as a result of this law.

It has become a controversial topic. Should employees of public institutions, (such as teachers, postal workers, and other city or county workers), be allowed to have their domestic partners covered under the employee’s health insurance?

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Group travel insurance is an economical and convenient way to purchase insurance coverage when you are travelling as a group overseas. Group travel insurance is useful for corporate groups, for school groups, groups of university students, organizations and missionary groups among others.

When you are organizing group travel abroad there are hundreds of things to think about and many different issues to sort out. Insurance is essential when you are travelling abroad as it covers unexpected sickness and injury, providing money to pay for medical care and emergency help.

Leaving each individual to sort out their own policy is problematic as you may end up with some people covered and others not.

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Haiti’s women entrepreneurs will be first in the world to receive rapid insurance payments for income lost by their micro-businesses due to cholera. This programme, along with a five-year, multi-million dollar initiative to help farmers in Senegal boost their food and income security, were announced at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting by Swiss Re and its CGI partners as their commitments for 2012.

Cholera first appeared in Haiti after the heavy rains in the fall of 2010, says Swiss Re. Fonkoze, the country’s largest microfinance organization, Mercy Corps and Swiss Re all partners in MiCRO (the Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organization) – then decided to take on the commitment of developing a new cholera insurance scheme which ensures “real-time” payout once a pre-defined set of criteria are met. These inclu Full Post…

If you have been doing your research, just like you should if you are looking for insurance, you might have come across the term PPS insurance. This short article aims to describe just what PPS insurance actually is and who’s eligible to apply.

PPS is short for The Professional Provident Society of South Africa. They mainly market their goods to the graduates of our nation. One of their products is insurance, hence PPS insurance.

Let us examine what PPS stands for – Professional Provident Society.

Firstly, we have professional. This means that in order to qualify, you must be a professional. Full Post…

Students who have been accepted for study abroad programs should prioritize getting an exchange student insurance policy. Imagine having to live abroad and encountering a medical emergency without anything backing you up. That would definitely be a tremendous hassle, if not a nightmare. Instead of focusing on your recovery, you can’t help but worry over who will take care of your financial responsibilities caused by the medical emergency. 

Thinking about this possible situation will make you appreciate the importance of being secured abroad. Yo

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