Category: Proper Insurance Coverage

The 2012-13 NFL season saw more than 160 players go down with head injuries, a high-profile wrongful death lawsuit, and even had President Obama commenting on the extreme violence in football. In response, the NFL donated $30 million in September to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for brain injury research. Given that this was […]

As mandated by federal law, hospital emergency rooms are required to evaluate and stabilize any patient that enters their waiting rooms, even if they have no way to pay for those procedures. However, the presidential healthcare overhaul known as the Affordable Care Act has stuck a blow to undocumented immigrants who once relied on the […]

For decades, a large portion of our nation’s total cost of healthcare is attributed to the cost of providing emergency care to patients who lack insurance or another means to pay. For 25 years, any hospital receiving Medicare funds has been required by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to provide at least a […]

As parents and high school graduates prepare for the end of summer and the start of college classes in the fall, thoughts turn to tuition, textbooks and upcoming school parties. As college students look forward to heading off to school, either in cars of their own or their parents’ vehicles, it is also important to […]

College students have more possessions of value than they or their parents may realize. The lives of college students are filled with laptops, smartphones, clothes and whether you believe it or not textbooks. Often insurance issues for college students are out of sight and out of mind until an accident or something worse occurs. But, […]