Travel Insurance Won't Cover Newly Insured Trips Foiled By Icelandic Volcano Ash

Travel Insurance Won't Cover Newly Insured Trips Foiled By Icelandic Volcano Ash

That wacky Icelandic volcano ash is not only mucking up Europes skies and screwed up travel plans worldwide, it’s also clouding the morals of travel insurance policy issuers, which are refusing to cover new claims brought on by the disaster, the Wall Street Journal reports. [More]

Funerals Another Victim Of The Recession

Funerals Another Victim Of The Recession

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office reports that more bodies of deceased residents are going unclaimed than in the past, then cremated at taxpayer expense. Why the increase? Families claim that they simply can’t afford funeral expenses.