Insurance Blog Week in Review – Week of April 15-21, 2012

Every week, the Insurance Blog Week in Review gives you a quick and easy way to “ketchup” on everything that hit the blog in the past seven days. There can be anywhere between 12 and 14 blogs that will appear. What did you miss this week? My Quest to Find Affordable Health Insurance is Finished Finally! I have found a health insurance policy that I can actually afford! I review the steps from uninsured, (when I lost my job and my health insurance in 2009), to insured in 2012. The Insurance Podcast Roundup went up on April 16, 2012. This … Continue reading

The Claims Investigator Arrived

This all started with a puddle on the floor. I have been blogging my way through the process involved in making a claim with my homeowners insurance company, from start to whenever it gets finished. The insurance company connected us with a claims investigator. Here is how that went. As I said, it all started with a mysterious puddle on the floor. It seemed that the water leaked in during a hard rain. My husband made a claim with the company we have our homeowners insurance through. So far, we have had some repairmen come take a look at the … Continue reading

A Fourth Letter from the Homeowners Insurance Company

This all started with a puddle on the floor. My husband and I filed a claim with our homeowners insurance company about the water damage that was done to the wall. I have been blogging about each and every step in the claims process. Today, we got a fourth letter from the insurer. Here is what it said. As I said, it started with a puddle on the floor. Since then, I have been blogging my way through the whole process that started when my husband and I filed a claim with our homeowners insurance company. Since then, the insurance … Continue reading

The Second Letter from the Homeowners Insurance Company

This all started with a puddle on the floor. My husband and I made a claim with the company that we have a homeowners policy with. We got three letters in the mail from our insurance company. In a previous blog, I went over what one of the letters said. Here is what the second letter was all about. This blog is a continuation of the steps involved in making a claim to my homeowners insurance company. It all started with a puddle on the floor. Water had somehow seeped in through the wall during a hard rain. My husband … Continue reading

When Good Actors Go Bad

Actor Ben Chapman was the star of the 1954 cult classic Creature from the Black Lagoon. In fact, Chapman, who just passed away this February at the age of 79, didn’t star in many movies – five altogether. Nevertheless, his best acting may have been when talking to family and fans about his military career. For decades, Chapman claimed to have won the Silver Star (given for “gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States”), the Bronze Star (given for “heroic or meritorious achievement or service”), and two Purple Hearts (given for “Being wounded or killed in any … Continue reading