Couple of questions if I may... I recently used Goosehead to get home and car insurance. They said that AMWINS would be best for homeowners insurance. Has anyone heard of AMWINS? Are they any good? Anyone had any claims with them? Also, I just received a notice of a rescind of cancel notification from both of them. I never received notice of cancellation and that is concerning to me. They stated that the original reason was "underwriting". It does state that there was no laps in coverage. I will call them later today but I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on this as to what happened. I live in DFW and the house is paid off if that means anything.

Had anyone else had a sudden very large increase on their auto insurance premium? I've had allstate for 1.5 years now, and it suddenly jumped up by over $100 a month with no changes. This seems to big a hike to just be rising insurance costs. Has anyone had a big increase as well? Or suggestions for what to do? I can never seem to get an answer from Allstate. One customer service person told me that Florida was having storms and this impacts insurance prices (I don't live in Florida). I'm thinking about just changing insurance companies :(

Evacore under the auspices of Highmark ( aka Gravemark) has denied my cardiac cath for the second time. Next step —- letter +\~ phone call to Evacore ????

I recently had a claim denied. For context, I lived in VA and had State Farm insurance for several years. Shortly before I moved out of state, my wife lost her engagement ring. I assumed that was just a total loss and didn't think anything else of it until I was setting up insurance in my new state, and they recommended that I talk to my old agent to see if it was covered. I then called my old agent's office in VA, and they told me that I should file a claim because that loss should be covered. Less than 24 hours later I get a call from the claims department saying that my policy does not cover lost jewelry unless it was stolen. To my understanding, having a denied claim can hurt me by causing future premiums to go up or making it more likely for me to be rejected for coverage outright. Is there anything that I can do to fix this given that the only reason that I even filed a claim to begin with was that they told me to do it?

State is Michigan. I want to keep this as private as possible. Basically I had a double mastectomy back in the beginning of January. It was supposed to include liposuction on my sides to prevent 'dog ears'. I traveled 9 hours for this surgery. The swelling was so bad under my armpits I couldn't really see the open wounds. When I would do my cleaning and dressing changes every day I noticed a lot of discharge and blood. I had both of my sisters look at the wounds since I couldn't see them. I ended up going to the ER. The did cultures of both side wounds and started me on an IV antibiotic and an oral one. I contacted my surgeons office and got scheduled with a PA. They tried saying there was no infection and just to put Vaseline on it. They then extended my LOA at work. The ER contacted me and said that I had E. Coli and a staph infection. They changed the antibiotics because the one they prescribed wouldn't treat the infection. I relayed this info to my surgeons team. At this point I still haven't met with my surgeon after two months. I googled how to treat the wounds and took the care into my own hands. No doctor in my area will touch the surgical sights since they didn't perform the surgery. Two months later and I still have an open wound with discharge. Fast forward to this past Friday my health insurance sends me a subrogation claim letter to fill out. I have never heard of this before. It wanted me to file a police report and a LARA report. It also asked if I've hired an attorney. I called the state police post and they said to call the attorney general for any medical malpractice suits. So my question is how do I find the proper attorney and what are my steps now? I live in a small town and don't even think there are any attorneys that deal with medical malpractice. I have very detailed documentation of my infection and medical reports. Any advice is welcome.

Hi, my parked car was scratched up on the side by a charter bus a couple months ago. A witness left a note with their number stating that they can send me the license plate photo. They seemed very willing to help and agreeable to making a statement if needed. I had opened a claim with the bus’ insurance company and sent the agent text screenshots of the correspondence with the witness. Weeks later the agent informed me they couldn’t get in touch with the witness and issued a denial because of that. I texted the witness and asked if they could follow up with the agent and was met with no answer twice a couple weeks apart. Is there any other form of proof that I could present to strengthen my case? Thanks in advance!

I have my cars and house bundled with Erie. I traded in my old car and bought a new car. When adding the new car they had to re-rate the policy and it jumped my homeowner policy up by 37%. No homeowner claims ever. Not sure how a new car justifies even looking at the home policy in the first place.

**THE PROBLEM** Our dog is a 7 year old English Bulldog. We had been with Nationwide pet insurance since he was a puppy and LOVED them! They were absolutely outstanding but then in 2024 their premiums went up like 3x-4x out of nowhere. I looked for some new providers and SPOT came in with a decent price (although still much more expensive than we were paying before). Our policy with SPOT started in August 2024 and Nationwide was cancelled the following month so there would be no lapse in coverage. **THE BACKGROUND** In November, he started having difficultly walking. I took him to the new vet he's been going to for the last few years and said it's hip dysplasia and is recommended stem cell treatment (we have stem cells stored with Ardent from when he was a puppy). I submitted the claim for his doctor visit and associated blood work and they denied it saying pre-existing condition. Apparently, in his medical records, back in early 2021 I had taken him into our previous vet because he was vomiting. They were concerned of a blockage (maybe ate something) and took xrays. They had made an incidental mention that bi-lateral his dysplasia was noticed while checking for blockage but that was it. I didn't even know about it. He never had any trouble walking, he was never seen for it, never received any treatment for it, and was never talked about or mentioned again by his previous or current vet. **THE QUESTION** Do I have any grounds or avenues for appealing this denial of coverage? On paper, they are saying pre-existing condition which I understand but he never was seen for it, never had signs or symptoms, never treated for it, and I didn't even know about it. It was an incidental comment 4 years ago while checking for something else. Since English Bulldogs are prone to hip dysplasia, I don't think it would be uncommon to observe some level of it - He was only 3 years old at that time. I live in CA if that matters.

I'm on my mom's blue cross blue shield medicaid IL insurance and for some reason I was kicked off last month and now it says I'll be back on next month. My mom isn't sure why that happened. When I tried to make an appointment yesterday my bcbs insurance ID wasn't working when it always has. But I NEED to go to a hospital some time soon. Will my medicaid ID work or are they together? If it doesn't work does that mean I'll have to pay out of pocket if I go before next month.

My husband and I are working through paying off our debt. I have a personal loan through OneMain we are wanting to pay off ASAP I got a payoff last week good through tomorrow, but then on Monday I called in and canceled the optional product of Credit Insurance and Disability Insurance. The issue is, the cancelation of those products applied to the overall balance that includes pre-calculated interest, but it did not come off of the payoff amount. I called customer service and they said the payoff amount is basically already assuming the cancelation of those optional products. Does that sound right?