Category Archives: Insurance
Hit A Deer
Last Friday night, while driving my daughter home from gymnastics practice, I hit a deer with my car. (Technically, the deer hit my car, too.) My car suffered some damage to the right front fender, and both passenger doors. The car’s passenger-side mirror was destroyed. Thankfully, my daughter and I are find. I’m not able [...]
The $208.34 Thirty Minute Phone Call
I’ve just gotten off the phone, after thirty minutes, wih our health insurance company. It seems that they, for some strange reason, have been filing all of our most recent claims as “out-of-network” instead of “in-network”. So, instead of charging us 10% for each visit to the doctor, they have been charging us 40%! Spending [...]
Medical Data And Social Security Numbers Exposed By Insurance Company
According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Georgia’s largest health insurer (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia) sent an estimated 202,000 benefits letters containing personal and health information to the wrong addresses last week, in a privacy breach that also raised concerns about potential identity theft. Please click the link above to read the entire article, [...]
How My Will Is Structured
We’ve just returned from our attorney’s office and we are the proud owners of two, shiny new wills! I thought I’d share a little about how my will is structured – If I were to die, my wife becomes the executor of my will and all of my assets would go to her. If both [...]
