Q: When checking out today at their store I was asked if I wanted to fill out a Pottery Barn credit card application. I don’t like feeling pressured, so I took the pamphlet home with me. It looks like it has good rewards! Would you recommend this credit card?
A: Pottery Barn is an excellent store to pick up home furnishings. While they make great stuff, unfortunately it’s rather pricey… so any sort of rewards program would definitely be nice!
In a nutshell here is the Pottery Barn credit card rewards program:
AIG reported a $2.66 billion loss in the second quarter, Missouri voters shot down one aspect of the federal health care reform law and a new report has found that questionable auto insurance claims have increased.
Life insurer AIG has reported a second quarter net loss of $2.66 billion, which is a considerable drop from its $1.82 billion loss posted in the first quarter. However, the loss is not from a drop in earnings.
It’s the last bank holiday of the summer and thousands of people will be hitting the roads or heading overseas to take advantage of the long weekend. But is your travel insurance up to scratch? Travel insurance is a must if you’re going abroad. It protects you against everything from thieves nicking your camera to the cost of being repatriated back to the UK if you have a serious accident.
The key thing to remember when buying cover is that not all policies cover all events. This means that you shouldn’t automatically go for the cheapest policy you find – you need to find the right level of cover to suit your needs for the best price possible. For example, do you want airline failure cover included?
OLDWICK, N.J. — Certain life insurance agents and broker-dealer firms could face increased legal liability depending on how the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission rules on the fiduciary standard pertaining to the sale of investment products.
Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, signed into law on July 21, the SEC is directed to study the obligations and legal standards of care of broker-dealers and investment advisers when providing investment advice about securities to individual investors. Read more…
The New York State Attorney General has subpoenaed more life insurance companies, a new report shows that young drivers have significantly higher auto accident rates and one in five California residents are go without health insurance.
Recently, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that he would be opening a fraud investigation that looked into how life insurance companies were paying out their benefits. At the time, he had already subpoenaed Prudential Financial and MetLife on suspicion that the companies may had been retaining beneficiary funds in company-controlled accounts instead of paying out lump sums as agreed.
Now, more companies have been subpoenaed for the investigation, including Genworth Financial Inc., Unum Group, Guardian Life Insurance, New York Life Insurance Co. and