insurance

The company reported a 17% increase in quarterly earnings after a pickup in its insurance business, while operating profit from insurance underwriting more than doubled from a year earlier.

That increase, coupled with the loss of the subsidies beginning at the start of next year, means a 114% jump in costs for the folks dependent on this insurance.

Both mortgage rates and home prices rose significantly over the past several years—as have insurance costs and property taxes for many homeowners.

A deal to end the government shutdown moved forward without extending health-insurance subsidies, causing insurance and hospital stocks to fall.

These include the car insurance story, the insecure jobs item, the Scarlett Blake case, the ICJ order, and the reporting of casualty figures in Gaza.