A top international insurance company has been accused of misleading New Zealanders.

The insurance company in question is accused of luring consumers by suggesting their main competitor was increasing its prices for health insurance. However once the customers signed up, the new company hiked its own prices by around 14%.

No fewer than 30,000 customers were affected by this alleged ruse, with the average increase for a family of four being about £239.

The insurance company has refuted the allegations claiming that the rise was forced upon them for two reasons. First, the New Zealand Government changed its own policies and second, there is medical inflation plus increases in hospital bed charges.

A spokesperson for the company also says that its own price increase is modest by comparison with other insurance firms, one in particular hiking their prices by a massive 25%.

Meanwhile it’s been reported that a pop star BRONX-Kool DJ Herc, generally accepted as the founder of Hip Hop is seriously ill, but does not have health insurance. Lack of health insurance in the US is a massive problem.

A DJ colleague of BRONX-Kool DJ Herc said on his own radio programme: “For those that know about Hip-Hop, who we call the father of Hip-Hop, Kool Herc, is not doing well. It’s funny how we have a father of a culture that still lives, where as in some cultures they are dead and gone even though they may still be worshiped or reflected on in some kind of way

Since he’s very sick and has no insurance … he needs to pay his bills so he can get out of hospital.”