Tag: premiums

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POLL: Have you renewed your liability insurance in the last few months?
If you have, did premiums go up, down, or stay about the same? Weigh in here.
May 19, 2020
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Electronic Logging Devices
A gold rush for ELD data
As the trucking industry reckons with the value of information spewing from millions of trucks, issues of privacy, disclosure and ownership rights, including fair compensation, remain to be resolved.
June 4, 2019
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Voices
Assessing the ‘hard market’ for liability insurance
Premium increases in the past year have followed increasingly difficult conditions for insurers, watchers note, for a variety of factors. 10 percent might be a good rough average for independents and small fleets. At once, it’s not hard to find contrary examples on either side of that 10 percent among readers.
January 29, 2019
Insurance That Fits
Business
Health-insurance exchanges open through Jan. for ‘Obamacare, round 4’
Affordable Care Act open enrollment is to purchase and change plans is open through January 31, 2017. The biggest issue this year include premium price increases and the need for many current policyholders to shop their plans due to the mass exodus of insurers from the exchanges.
November 7, 2016
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Overdrive Radio
Mailbag: ‘Don’t help the lawyers. Help us.’ –Readers on insurance
In this podcast, readers weigh in on rising insurance costs, urging regulators and congress not to hike minimums, which might well serve only to line the pockets of attorneys and deleteriously affect the trucking business.
March 17, 2015
More costs piled on by regulators in the form of an insurance hike, readers argue in the podcast below, would only serve to idle more trucks and boost crash settlements unnecessarily, with them attorney’s fees.
Business
A couple’s experience with health-insurance premiums
“Once tax season hits, people are going to freak out.” –insurance agent Holly McCombs on Obamacare reaction. She and her husband, car hauler David McCombs, remain insured off the ACA exchanges.
March 6, 2015
Owner-operator David McCombs and his car-hauling Peterbilt
Business
Division on liability insurance hike in the spotlight at regulatory meeting
An FMCSA advisory committee discussion offered insight into how the agency will proceed with its rulemaking to increase liability insurance minimums and the potential consequences facing small business truckers if and when an increase occurs.
October 28, 2014
Could you survive a hike in liability insurance to $2 million? $4 million? Do you already carry well above the minimum required for property carriers. If you’re using a mobile device, tap the image to call and weigh in. If you’re on a desktop, call 530-408-6423. Make sure to tell us your name and state of residence, and we’ll put a podcast together rounding up the responses.
Channel 19
+25 percent: What double the liability insurance coverage will likely cost
One insurance rep cites a likely 25 percent increase in premiums for independent owner-operators boosting $1 million liability coverage to $2M. More on FMCSA’s expected insurance-hike proposal here.
September 30, 2014
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Channel 19
Obamacare case analysis: Stick with the wife’s insurance
Owner-operator Michael Wright, of Michigan, runs through health-insurance numbers as he contemplates potential moves in 2014 as the Affordable Care Act gets closer to implementation.
October 14, 2013
This image greets visitors to the HealthCare.gov central portal for applications for insurance purchased through the public exchanges mandated by the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare.” Best estimates of the cost of coverage for your particular situation, without going most of the way through the application process, can be found via the Kaiser Family Foundation’s costs/subsidy calculator, though only Silver-level plans are estimated there.
Voices
Is Obamacare impacting your 2014 insurance preps?
Owner-operators, are you seeing insurances rates on the new exchanges higher or lower than what you pay now for coverage, or are new requirements causing your current insurer to adjust rates? Weigh in via this poll.
October 3, 2013
Channel 19
Obamacare upside for independent contractor model?
Only if insurance rates get reasonable, as it were, on the long-term basis.
October 2, 2013
Download Transport Capital Partners’ most recent business expectations survey of large and small fleets by clicking here.
Business
Some ACA health-insurance exchange premium detail made available
The Department of Health and Human Services’ first limited release of premium data in federally run health insurance exchanges under Obamacare has finally come down. Find it here.
September 25, 2013
Uncertainty on moves in health insurance come 2014 and opposition to the ACA in general were among the biggest trends in Overdrive‘s summer 2013 polling of owner-operators and drivers.
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