Disability Insurance: Why You Need It and How to Get It
Your most valuable asset isn’t your house, car or retirement account. It’s the ability to make a living. Disability insurance pays a portion of your income if you can’t work…
Barbara Marquand
Barb writes about insurance at NerdWallet. She relishes the challenge of making a complicated topic interesting and easy to understand for consumers. Her work has appeared online at Forbes, The New York Times, USA Today and others. Outside of work, she teaches yoga, makes pottery and runs (slowly) on local trails.
Posts by Barbara Marquand:
New-Car Replacement Insurance Explained
An accident that totals your new car will be costly even if you have collision insurance. The insurance check will be less than what you paid for the car and, if you took…
What Drivers Need to Know About Non-Owner Car Insurance
Don’t own a car? You still might need your own auto insurance coverage. Non-owner car insurance is a special policy designed for people who don’t have a car. It provides liability…
How to Get Adequate Driver Info After an Accident
If all goes the way it should after a car accident, you and the other driver calmly exchange information before parting ways. And later you file a police report or…
How to Join a Deluge of Insurance Claims for Flooded Cars
The one-two punch of Harvey and Irma will make this one of the most destructive hurricane seasons ever for cars. Together, the two storms rendered more than 500,000 vehicles a…
How a Public Adjuster Can Help With Hurricane Insurance Claims
Anyone who suffers damage from a hurricane will be thankful if they have homeowners or windstorm coverage and flood insurance. But much work lies ahead. Filing claims for major damage can…
How to Get Money If You Don’t Have Flood Insurance
If a flood wrecks your house and belongings, and you don’t have flood insurance, what can you do? Home insurance does not pay to repair the house or replace…
Insurers Get Innovative in Hurricane Response
See your house before returning to the neighborhood. Cuddle with a therapy dog. Open an insurance claim by text. These are some of the things you can do with new technology…
Don’t Let These Flood Insurance Limits Surprise You
Flood insurance is a big financial plus after a disaster such as a hurricane because home insurance doesn’t cover flood damage. Still, most flood insurance may not be as generous as…
The Impending Death of the Life Insurance Medical Exam
Peeing in a cup, giving blood samples, getting blood pressure checked and stepping on the scale were once unavoidable (and often dreaded) parts of applying for life insurance. But data…
