A St. Louis-based plan administrator disclosed that a delivery service has lost a box of microfilm containing plan enrollment information from the 1960s and 1970s.

On Aug. 23, Concordia Plan Services (CPS), formerly known as the plan administrator Worker Benefit Plans, was notified of the loss. On Feb. 3, CPS had hand-delivered the records to a vendor hired to convert the microfilm to an electronic format.

The loss occurred when the records were being transferred between the company assisting the vendor with the conversion process and the vendor. In May 2011, the delivery service had notified the vendor that the microfilm was lost, according to CPS.

The records contained some participants personal information, including names, addresses from the 1960s and 1970s, and dates of birth. I

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Most of us live our lives around our gadgets these days and whether its our 3g mobile, laptop or ipad it is at risk!

Whats more, in many cases our lifestyles are also at risk as our gadgets carry so much personal and company information and are in effect, our the portals to our social and business lives.

Insurance Blog and if the claims figures are to be believed, half the country, know only too well the pain involved in lifestyle interruption caused by losing a gadget!

The cost of replacing the item can be covered by traditional gadget insurance polices, but insurance as yet does not compensate for lifestyle interruption.

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Ford Kas are the least likely cars to be stolen because they “have no street cred among thieves”, an ex-burglar turned security expert has claimed.

The insurance comparison website Confused.com analysed its insurance data and found that not one of its customers had claimed for the theft of a Ford Ka between 2004 and 2011.

The Toyota Yaris is the number one most stolen car, with approximately one in every 244 models lost to thieves, followed by the the Volkswagen Touareg, with 1 in every 256 stolen.

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Thousands of foreign students go to the U.S. to participate in a student exchange program. Part of the requirements to becoming a foreign exchange student is having international student insurance.

For foreign students, for instance Asian ones, there has been some difficulty in totally understanding what their insurance plans offer. A major part of this difficulty is the fact that the country from which they come from has a very different way of running things than in the U.S.

Misconceptions about things like their insurance policies can lead to them not being able to take full advantage of the benefits that they should be getting.

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Thank you, Chairman Kohl, Ranking Member Corker, and members of the Committee for the opportunity to discuss Medicare reforms that can responsibly slow the growth of program spending and help set this country on a sustainable fiscal path.

I am Joseph Antos, the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a non-profit, non-partisan public policy research organization based in Washington, D.C. I am also a member of the panel of health advisers for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and I was formerly the Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources at CBO. My

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