Barbara Holder, 63, bought a long-term care insurance policy for herself last year after seeing how much it helped pay the bills when her mother moved into a nursing home three years ago.

The Federal Housing Administration, facing rising losses associated with its flagship mortgage insurance program, announced Friday an expansion of its efforts to help distressed homeowners…

A man with prostate cancer faced a choice: undergo an effective, standard therapy or try a newer treatment option with less chance of causing incontinence or impotence.

Symetra Financial Corp., owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., sold shares at the low end for its initial public offering as investors won concessions from three other companies in the first U.S. IPOs of 2010.

An initiative that would change the way auto insurance premiums can be calculated under California’s landmark Proposition 103 was certified Wednesday to appear on the June 8 ballot, just hours after the author of the existing law assailed it as a deceitful attempt to raise insurance rates for millions of drivers.

INSURANCE premiums for cars and houses are expected to rise sharply as insurers scramble to recover from a year of shrinking profits.

President Obama was correct to conclude that boosting economic activity required a fiscal stimulus.

Four Cambridgeshire households could be preparing to make a home insurance claim after suffering at the hands of burglars.

Officials say auto theft rates dropped Valley-wide nearly 40 percent in the first six months of 2009.

Home insurance claims are set to soar this week, as thousands of students across the UK return to their university accommodation.