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title: "Plexus Points: Insurance stories we're checking out"
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# [Plexus Points: Insurance stories we're checking out](https://blog.plexusgroupe.com/plexus-blog/news/plexus-points-insurance-stories-checking-5)

 Written by [Mike Wilkening](https://blog.plexusgroupe.com/author/mike-wilkening) | Mar 21, 2017 5:20:35 PM

At Plexus, we enjoy reading about insurance. Here are a half-dozen stories we're sharing, bookmarking and passing around:  
 -- If the 2018 federal budget cuts funding for the updating of flood maps, [could flood insurance rise](http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-budget-idUSL2N1GY1RG)? The Consumer Federation of America says yes, per Reuters.

-- A sentence without an Oxford comma could cost a Maine dairy [millions of dollars in overtime](http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2017/03/21/445180.htm).

-- Apple has reportedly extended the window to purchase AppleCare+ insurance to one year after [purchase of a new phone](http://fortune.com/2017/03/20/applecare-iphone-insurance/).

-- Florida is considering the [elimination of a tax credit on premiums for insurers](http://www.news4jax.com/news/politics/florida-legislature/senate-moves-to-end-insurance-industry-tax-break).

-- A Massachusetts town could soon be paying more for [property & casualty insurance](http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/city-expects-insurance-rate-bump-after-pittsfield-high-fire-burst-pipe-damages,501817) after an electrical fire and a broken water line caused damage to a local high school.

-- Insurance is certainly an issue [ride-sharing drivers](https://www.cars.com/articles/what-insurance-does-an-uber-or-lyft-driver-need-1420694381477/)must consider.

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