by Blog Editor | Sep 12, 2013 | Personal Insurance and Financial Events - Life Stories
Summer, 22, was going to be a first-time mom. Each month she would go into her insurance agent’s office to pay the premium on her car insurance, and during one of those visits her agent, Christie Trahan, asked her about getting life insurance coverage as well. Summer...
by Blog Editor | Sep 12, 2013 | Personal Insurance and Financial Events - Life Stories
Imagine this scenario: Two teenagers and a 7-year-old are suddenly in a single-parent household when their mother dies from cancer. Their father is doing the best he can, but a three-hour round-trip commute to work makes it challenging to be there as much as he wants...
by Blog Editor | Sep 3, 2013 | Personal Insurance and Financial Events - Life Stories
Fifty percent of the US population accounts for just 2.7% of all health-care expenditures, while 5% accounts for 49.5% of all health-care expenditures, according to Kaiser Family Foundation. The life expectancy at birth of an average American was 62.9 years in 1940,...
by Blog Editor | Aug 26, 2013 | Personal Insurance and Financial Events - Life Stories
Hard as it is to believe, there are only a few more months until the December holidays. And then we are back to January—and those pesky New Year’s resolutions. You know: lose weight, exercise more, get a handle on our finances. And we mean to follow through. We really...
by Blog Editor | Aug 19, 2013 | Personal Insurance and Financial Events - Life Stories
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that in order to live comfortably in retirement, you will need anywhere from 70% to 100% of your preretirement income. To help you calculate this, the Journal referred to the Cori Index. This index will help those...