https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed One in ten Swedes now has private health insurance, often through their employers, with some recipients stating it makes business sense to be seen quickly rather than languish in national health care queues. https://www.thelocal.se/20140117/hospital-queues-tied-to-insurance-trend Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:53:00 +0100 hospital-queues-tied-to-insurance-trend Rising underemployment and curtailed access to job insurance is hitting Sweden's younger workers with a double whammy as they attempt to shore up their income security, unions have warned. https://www.thelocal.se/20130325/46926 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:55:00 +0100 46926 Swedes are more chummy and tolerant toward their neighbours than Britons according to a new study that pokes holes in the stereotype that aloof Swedes go to great lengths to avoid small talk. https://www.thelocal.se/20130212/46140 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:24:00 +0100 46140 A five-year-old girl from Orust, an island off the west coast of Sweden, has been refused insurance from giant Folksam, on the grounds of her weight putting her into a “high risk” category, according to a report in daily Aftonbladet. https://www.thelocal.se/20110625/34564 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:35:00 +0200 34564 The number of Swedish women who fall victim to work-related injuries is growing, according to a new study from Swedish insurance company AFA. https://www.thelocal.se/20110609/34256 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:06:00 +0200 34256 The government is expected to face a new defeat in the Riksdag on Thursday after the far-right Sweden Democrats said they will side with the centre-left opposition's proposed reforms to Sweden's public health insurance system. https://www.thelocal.se/20110609/34250 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:02:00 +0200 34250 The Swedish government has proposed a number of changes to its reforms of the country's health insurance system, admitting its current efforts have left some people in a jam. https://www.thelocal.se/20110411/33134 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:19:00 +0200 33134 Sweden's social insurance minister has announced that the government has appointed a new committee to investigate whether the country should consider raising the retirement age from the current 65. https://www.thelocal.se/20110208/31922 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:48:00 +0100 31922 Sweden's consumer watchdog has criticised 15 small house builders for unfair contract terms, the agency announced on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20101228/31124 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:36:00 +0100 31124 The Swedish parliament on Wednesday passed controversial new limits on sickness benefits designed to get more people back into the workforce. https://www.thelocal.se/20091210/23778 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:39:00 +0100 23778 More and more Swedes are purchasing private insurance for income protection as a result of the economic crisis. https://www.thelocal.se/20090706/20482 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:33:00 +0200 20482 A 26-year-old new mother from Stockholm has been refused a new policy from an insurance company who told her she was still too fat for coverage. https://www.thelocal.se/20090514/19440 Thu, 14 May 2009 08:17:00 +0200 19440 A car collision with a wild boar is 27 percent costlier than running into an elk, a new Swedish study has revealed. https://www.thelocal.se/20090126/17166 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:33:00 +0100 17166 The number of Swedes enrolled in unemployment insurance programmes (a-kassa) jumped by 3,000 in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to new statistics. https://www.thelocal.se/20090123/17122 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:25:00 +0100 17122 Skandia AB, the Swedish subsidiary of Anglo-South African Old Mutual Plc, announced on Friday that it has come to a favourable settlement in its six-year dispute over the sale of its asset management business. https://www.thelocal.se/20081003/14730 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:28:00 +0200 14730 An estimated half million Swedes have left unemployment insurance funds (a-kassa) in the last two years, leading some to worry about the effects of potential job losses that may result from Sweden’s slowing economy. https://www.thelocal.se/20080804/13486 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:03:00 +0200 13486 Making a wrong turn on the way home from work cost a Swedish woman her right to social insurance annuity payments for injuries sustained in a car accident. https://www.thelocal.se/20080409/10994 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:18:00 +0200 10994 The Green Party has said it wants to transform Sweden’s current system of unemployment insurance (a-kassa) into a state-run program and combine it with social insurance (Försäkringskassan). https://www.thelocal.se/20080225/10094 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:33:00 +0100 10094 Reacting to strong criticism, the government is now stepping back from plans to limit sick benefits. https://www.thelocal.se/20080211/9947 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:19:00 +0100 9947 A series of fierce storms in the past few years have cost Swedish insurance companies 5.2 billion kronor, leading to higher premiums and warnings of worse to come. https://www.thelocal.se/20080128/9803 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:51:00 +0100 9803