The Insurance Maze: How You Can Save Money on Insurance-and Still Get the Coverage You Need
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Product Description
Before You Buy Another Insurance Policy Read this Book!Without proper insurance—health, auto, homeowners, life, disability, or long-term care—an unexpected event can quickly derail your financial plans and put your life savings at risk.Insurance is an essential part of financial planning, but many people are paying hundreds – sometimes thousands — of dollars more than they need to, and often, they buy the wrong kinds of coverage. With your family’s financial future at stake, you can’t afford to make the wrong decisions when shopping for insurance.In The Insurance Maze: How You Can Save Money on Insurance—and Still Get the Coverage You Need, industry expert and writer Kimberly Lankford breaks through the clutter and jargon of the industry and helps you make the most of your coverage and avoid expensive mistakes that can jeopardize your financial future. Some of the topics addressed include:•Mistakes people make when choosing employer-provided health plans –and how to find a better deal on your own•Strategies for making the most of health savings accounts•Why it’s dangerous to make small homeowners insurance claims•How to benefit from plummeting life insurance prices•Major pricing changes in auto insurance that could save you hundreds of dollars•Steps you can take to avoid problems at claim time •Why long-term care insurance is essential to protect your retirement savings, and how to minimize rising premiumsAs a journalist writing about insurance for more than a decade, Kim Lankford has been investigating the business from the inside and out – writing about sales strategies for insurance company executives and agents at the beginning of her career, then revealing those strategies to consumers as the chief insurance writer for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine and author of the “Ask Kim” column. Lankford’s inside knowledge of the business has made her one of the best-known insurance writers in the country.
About the Author
Kimberly Lankford is a contributing editor for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine and featured columnist on Kiplinger.com, where she has been helping readers with their financial questions for more than a decade. She is frequently featured as a personal finance expert on radio and television, including NBC’s Today Show, the CBS Early Show, CNN, National Public Radio, and Fox News. Kim is also the author of Rescue Your Financial Life and The Insurance Maze.
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I hate Insurance. I hate the whole idea of an industry that is built upon fear. But my mortgage lender requires me to insure my house, the Department of Motor Vehicles makes me insure my car, my wife insists that I have a life insurance policy, and it would seem irresponsible not to provide my kids with health insurance as long as I can afford it. If you add it all up, we all spend a lot of money on insurance — and the question really isn’t if you should be buying insurance, but if you are buying the right insurance at the best price.
This book will help you answer those questions. Kim Lankford has an insiders perspective on the insurance industry (having begun her career there) and she knows how to write — she’s the authoeor of the a regular “Ask Kim” column in Kiplingers. Lankfrod gives you the inside scoop on your best options for coverage with real-life examples, resources, and tools to find your best deals. Reading this book taught me some valuable lessons about the hidden costs in health insurance plans, and how to make the most of a health savings account that is going to help me build a sizable stash of tax free money. The book is also full on unintuitive insights into life insurance prices, auto insurance pricing, and tricks to minimize potential problems when you make a claim. This book is well worth the money you will spend to buy it and the time you will invest in reading it.
The book is a great description of the subject, and it clearly defines insurance customers’ options. Very current and spans several types of insurance. After spending years caring for a chronic disease, I thought I knew everything about health insurance, but this actually taught me a few things that can cut my bills. Great glossary and list of internet resources will help keep the reader up-to-date on numbers and trends.
As newlyweds with a new home, new car, and plans to start a family, we realized that we had to re-examine our insurance needs. After browsing through a bunch of other books on insurance, we found that this really covered everything we needed to know in clear, simple language. We learned some things that really surprised us in every category of insurance and this book really helped us make the right choices for our situation. We anticipate saving quite a bit of money after following the advice in this book, rather than just blindly selecting the insurance policies that we either already had, or that friends/family recommended.
Highly recommended as a great overview guide to insurance.
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用語追加 CIF – CIFとは、Cost, Insurance and Freightという言葉の略称で、日本語に訳すると「運賃保険料込み条件」。シーアイエフと読むが、シフと読む場合もある.. →
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