Winning the Insurance Game The Complete Consumer's Guide to Saving Money
by NADAR, RALPHEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-02-01
Publisher(s): Main Street Books
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Summary
A comprehensive consumer's guide to playing and winning the insurance game includes advice on how to reduce automobile insurance, choose a good HMO or PPO health plan, and buy life insurance. Original. National ad/promo. Tour.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| Insurance Consumer's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities | p. xx |
| The Nature of the Beast | p. 1 |
| A Brief History | p. 5 |
| The Insurance Umbrella | p. 8 |
| How to Buy Insurance | p. 21 |
| The Insurance Contract | p. 34 |
| How to Read an Insurance Policy | p. 41 |
| What Price Security? | p. 52 |
| Consumers' Agenda | p. 58 |
| Automobile Insurance | p. 61 |
| The Question of Fault | p. 65 |
| The No-Fault Alternative | p. 76 |
| The Typical Auto Insurance Policy | p. 83 |
| Saving Money on Auto Insurance | p. 98 |
| Avoiding Insurance Roadblocks | p. 108 |
| Consumers' Agenda | p. 119 |
| Health Insurance | p. 131 |
| To Your Health ... Insurance | p. 135 |
| Traditional Health Insurance | p. 150 |
| HMOs and PPOs | p. 164 |
| Filling the Gap When You Lose Group Coverage | p. 175 |
| Disability Insurance | p. 184 |
| Consumers' Agenda | p. 192 |
| Residential Insurance | p. 205 |
| How to Buy Homeowner's Insurance | p. 209 |
| Protecting Hearth and Home | p. 216 |
| Insurance for Condominiums, Rentals, and Mobil Homes | p. 236 |
| "Add-On" Protection | p. 246 |
| Consumers' Agenda | p. 256 |
| Life Insurance | p. 259 |
| You Bet Your Life | p. 263 |
| Understanding the Life Insurance Contract | p. 271 |
| Shopping Tips | p. 278 |
| Term Life Insurance | p. 290 |
| Cash Value Life Insurance | p. 302 |
| Vive la Difference: Cash Value Policies | p. 314 |
| Life Insurance Riders | p. 326 |
| Government Insurance Benefits | p. 333 |
| Social Security | p. 337 |
| Medicare | p. 350 |
| Other Government Insurance Benefits | p. 363 |
| Consumers' Agenda | p. 375 |
| Insurance to Fill That Special Need | p. 379 |
| Senior Citizens Insurance | p. 383 |
| Workers Compensation | p. 402 |
| Prepaid Legal Insurance | p. 417 |
| Standing Tall | p. 423 |
| Regulation: Fact or Fiction? | p. 427 |
| Creating a "Paper Trail" | p. 433 |
| Filing Your Claim | p. 443 |
| We Have Not Yet Begun to Fight | p. 455 |
| Consumers' Agenda | p. 470 |
| Epilogue: Toward Greater Expectations | p. 473 |
| Appendices | p. 479 |
| Glossary | p. 481 |
| Insurance Coverages Not to Buy | p. 488 |
| Insurance Departments: United States and Canada | p. 493 |
| Bibliography | p. 500 |
| Consumer Insurance Resources | p. 502 |
| Excerpts, Sample (Homeowner's) Insurance Policy | p. 505 |
| Index | p. 516 |
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