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Agent Spotlight Shines on Michael Chandler

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Michael Chandler is President of Dogwood Capital Management. He attended East Carolina University and has been a Life and Health Agent since 1989 as well as an Investment Advisor/Financial Planner. To contact Dogwood Capital Management, please call (910) 487-8755. Q) What originally got you interested in the insurance industry? A) I started in the industry as a financial advisor back …

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Changes to Military Retirement Benefits in the Works

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By Bridget Naso, January 28th, 2015 For the first time in a quarter century, the military is likely changing retirement benefits, and new recommendations are going to Congress. Congress tasked the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission to take a look at military benefits two years ago because they felt the government couldn’t sustain the costs. Since then, the group …

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Feds to Taxpayers: Did You Get Health Insurance?

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By Maggie Fox, January 28th, 2015 Two to 4 percent of taxpayers will end up paying a fine because they didn’t have health insurance last year, federal health officials predicted Wednesday. This is the first year that Americans will have to worry about health insurance at tax time. The 2010 Affordable Care Act requires that just about everyone have health …

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Eligible Americans Turn Down Obamacare Tax Credits

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By Kimberly Leonard, January 12, 2015 Grace Brewer says she never thought she would be without health insurance at this stage of her life. “I’m a casualty of Obamacare,” says Brewer, 60, a self-employed chiropractor in the Kansas City, Kansas, area. She wanted to keep the catastrophic health insurance plan she once had, which she says fit her needs. But under the Affordable Care Act, the government’s health …

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Google Wants to Sell You Auto Insurance

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By Rolfe Winkler, January 8, 2015 Google is plotting a move into auto insurance in the U.S., including a comparison-shopping site from which users would also be able to buy policies, an industry analyst says. Forrester Research FORR +0.14% analyst Ellen Carney wrote in a blog post Wednesday that an entity called Google Compare Auto Insurance Services is licensed to …

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The breakdown: 7 types of insurance you should know about

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By Jeff Wuorio, January 6, 2015 Some types of insurance are must-haves, not just to cover the expenses of unforeseen circumstances but also to comply with the law. Most states require motorists to have liability coverage, and Americans have been alerted the past two years via the Affordable Care Act to obtain health care insurance or face consequences. But other …

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No health insurance? Penalties rise in 2015

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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar /Associated Press, December 30, 2014 The cost of being uninsured in America is going up significantly next year for millions of people. It’s the first year all taxpayers have to report to the Internal Revenue Service whether they had health insurance for the previous year, as required under President Barack Obama’s law. Those who were uninsured face …

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