I have a BCBS of Illinois community health plan, and I've been looking to find a dermatologist that's in network and when I go on the website look under the "in network" tab, everyone I call says they do not accept my insurence. This isn't the first time I've dealt with this either... Even when I call and get a list from that it's the same story. Am I doing something wrong? By the sounds of it a lot of the offices I call make it seem like they asked to be removed from these lists and never were.

So the story goes: My friend in Texas totaled his car by hitting a mailbox. He has Gap insurance from the dealership, and auto insurance from progressive. Auto insurance agent told him they're going to pay the dealership instead of him. Can friend demand direct payment to himself, as the policyholder? Can his insurance just send the check somewhere else like that? The gap insurance should handle everything on the dealership side, so I don't know why his insurance company would be giving the dealership anything.

Renewal time is coming up soon and realized I never changed our address since we recently moved back to NY after living in RI. Well it’s going from $36 for my 5 year old cat to $60 a month. Overall she’s a very healthy kitty, the only health issue is she has asthma so I get that and I know as they get older it’s more costly cause of healthcare for them and providing services is expensive. Embrace has been great overall experience for us because we had to put one of our other cats down last year and they compensated us almost entirely but, I just wasn’t expecting because of the zip code to justify $60 every month now. Does anyone have any suggestions on our insurances if I’d be saving money elsewhere?

Last week I got my settlement value for my totaled car which was very very undervalued due to them not comparing the same vehicles. Their excuse was “we go off of the VIN, they did not have any ST models in the area for comparison so that was the closest model to your vehicle” that was word for word from an email I received. For context I have a ford focus st and they compared to the ford focus se, the two cars are VERY different in build and price. They are saying I can invoke my appraisal clause and get an independent appraiser at my expense. What should I do? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks everyone!

Hello all, I am desperately trying to find health insurance coverage for my pregnant wife. She graduated college in December and went from a CNA to an RN with a start date of March 10th. Her HR told her that she would have a new open enrollment and that she could let her coverage lapse and gain new coverage when she started as an RN. This was before we knew she was pregnant and we were going abroad for a while and so we did not renew the insurance for 2025 thinking that we would just start it again in March. We thought that because she was still employed, there wouldn't be a waiting period for when she got her coverage but we found out today that she won't be covered until June. She is due in August so we definitely need tests done before June. We got denied on Pennie for a qualifying event (PA marketplace), short-term policies don't cover pregnancy, and I am under my mom's coverage so I don't have a policy she could come to. Please, if anyone has any insight into this, PLEASE help!

I cancelled my Direct Auto policy before payment was due in June, I got a letter in the mail saying I owed direct auto $289.45... I called them and wanted to know why I owed money to them when I was caught up and decided to cancel it. I only had their insurance for 3 months before I decided to go to progressive and cancel their insurance. When I was canceling the insurance over the phone in June, he didn't tell me I would owe money or anything like that. He just said "Okay, I can cancel that for you. No problem." No warning about having to pay the remaining balance of the policy or anything...

Today our new 2025 rav4 got rear ended by a driver. It has 5000 miles on it and we just took it to get its first oil change and were given a coupon for free carwashes for a year. Decided to get a wash once we were done. The carwash place is one with a conveyor belt type of thing that brings the car forward. The signs said to go into neutral and let the belt do everything so we did. Suddenly we get banged from the car behind us. The worker at the carwash stopped everything and said multiple times it was the driver behind us at fault. She didn't go into neutral and instead stayed in drive and accelerated, causing her to "jump" the grooves on the belt and hit us. She kept saying she had no idea what happened. Our car isn't seriously damaged from what we can tell, the back bumper will need replacing and above that is dented. The other driver's car was fine, go figure. I did ask the witness/employee at the carwash for his name and if he had footage. He said the corporate office would have it. I do have a front dash cam that doesn't really show much but you can hear a loud boom from the impact. I'm hoping and praying my insurance company can see it wasn't our fault. I know we have to get everything repaired before worrying about a diminished value claim. I'm just wondering how this will all work. We exchanged insurance info and we both have geico. I submitted the claim but how will all this work with trying to get a diminished value claim? Will geico just say no since they're kind of "going against" their own company to try to recoup our loss? Sorry I just don't understand what to do.

I am trying to move my HSA out of Fidelity for a previous job, since they will start charging fees. When I tried to open a Lively HSA, I got this message. Has anyone else run into this before? Any theories why I might be getting this? \--- Thank you for reaching back out to us. After careful consideration by our accounts team, we have determined that we will be unable to open an account for you and have no further information we can provide. There is no further need to contact us about this as our decision is final. We consider this issue closed and will not be responding further. Thank you for considering Lively, we truly wish you the best at finding another HSA provider. EDIT: I just contacted Fidelity, there are actually no fees! I'll be keeping it as it is.

I have an 8month old puppy. He had some bile vomiting before our insurance kicked in. Long story short, he was sick recently and we thought he swallowed something. When I put the claim in Lemonade denied me. They said vomiting is a "pre-exisiting" condition. Which is nuts? Has anyone dealt with this? Am I crazy to want to switch insurances? Will this ever go away?

Was with another major isuance player, and was dissatisfied on their customer service. Will be nice and not mention the name. Erie Insurance was recommended to me by family member. Thhey have been with them for years and satisfied with their agent. I called Erie for a quote last month bu they were havig system issues. Agent advised they would call me back when resolved. It took almost 3 weeks (they called Thursday. So what do you think of Erie? Would you be timid about a company that was 'down' for almost 3 weeks (unable to service existing policies or quote new policies)?