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As one of the many outgrowths of the sweeping federal health care law, health insurers and employers must now pay the cost of screening children for obesity and providing them with appropriate counseling.

With about one in three children in the United States obese or overweight, according to government statistics, the need for such programs is clear. But, experts say, creating them will be challenging. Other than intensive hospital-based programs, few proven models exist for helping children and adolescents achieve and maintain a healthier weight, and researchers do not even fully understand the factors that contributed to the rapid rise in childhood obesity in recent years. “If this were easy, if there were clear outcomes for success, we would be investing in these,” said Dr. Samuel R. Nus Read more…

After declaring that it would be looking into rising car premiums this September, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has now launched a full scale investigation into car insurance costs as a response to an overwhelming public outcry in the nation.

The areas of concern include insurers selling their policy holders’ details to solicitors and stoking up claims against themselves. Other areas include the cost of replacement cars and accident repairs.

An executive in the OFT, Sonya Branch, was quoted as saying: “Our concerns relate to the provision of third party vehicle repairs and credit hire replacement vehicles to claimants, where we suspect companies may be competing to extract money from each other rather than keeping premiums as low as possible and providing car owners with value for money.”

She continued, “By carrying out a market study, we aim to clarify whether a market investigation reference to the Competition Commission is appropriate.”

However, the new findings revealed by OFT suggest that car insurance premiums have not been rising as rapidly as has been previously claimed.

OFT’s investigation have shed some light over some of the practices leading up to rising car insurance rates.

Car hire firms offer replacement cars to non-faulty drivers for the time being while their cars are being repaired. At the same

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You’ve been injured in a car accident, and for the moment you cannot return to work.  Panic sets in.  How do you pay the bills?  The mortgage?

Being injured in a car accident is bad enough. But being disabled from earning a living because of injuries suffered in a crash may be  the thing that pushes a victim and her family into financial ruin.  Michigan No-Fault wage loss was created nearly 40 years ago to stop that from happening.

No-Fault wage loss benefits  pay injured car accident victims 85 percent of the wages they would have earned had they not been injured. That is

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There is a fairly unique system in place regarding auto insurance rates in North Carolina.  The Daily Reflector published an article by Gary D.

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