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Exxon Mobil lobbies on climate change
in Sox First, on August 2, 2009
...ve Politics points out in its blog , only the pharmaceutical and health care product companies and insurers spent more on lobbying in the second quarter than the oil and gas industry. We can expect l...
Save On Car Insurance by Raising Your Deductible
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 6, 2009
...insurance is by reducing your deductible amount. Typically, unless you ask for a different amount, insurers assume people want to have a low deductible - which is usually about $250.
According to Bo...
Credit Scores and Car Insurance
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 29, 2009
... car insurance rates and save money is to keep your credit score in good shape. For some time now, insurers have been looking at credit scores in order to determine rates, according to an article by ...
Banks fight to keep accounting tricks
in Sox First, on June 6, 2009
...lled in the Chamber of Commerce, the Mortgage Bankers Association, and the American Council of Life Insurers to write to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner trying shelve the accounting rule change. T...
Will COBRA Bite Your Business?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 18, 2009
... opt for COBRA coverage when they're laid off, but they tend to have the worst health problems. Insurers or businesses that pay for their own workers' claims generally pay more than $1.50 in c...
Lessons from Siemens
in Sox First, on January 20, 2009
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Siemens is upbeat about its chances of getting its insurers to pay a big chunk of the $1.3 billion it paid to settle corruption probes in the United States and Germany. And that's a worr...
Competing for bailouts
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
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The name of the game now is competing for a slice of the bailout. Insurers, automakers, securities dealers and banking types are all lining up for a slice of the action with the Financial Services...
Subprime crisis drives litigation
in Sox First, on April 10, 2008
...nts by the company are now being hit. And Fitch Ratings warns this is going to be a nightmare for insurers providing cover for directors and officers. The big question is whether the litigation wil...
Carbon world of 2028
in Sox First, on March 19, 2008
...hat Google and Microsoft have done. Litigation over damage from climate change will be common. And insurers might not want to write certain types of business. We should also get ready for a market in...
Governance and performance
in Sox First, on February 28, 2008
...returns to investors than those without, according to a new survey from the Association of British Insurers . According to the survey, investing £100 ($US199) in the portfolio of well-governed compan...
Insurers: the latest subprime victims
in Sox First, on February 24, 2008
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The subprime disaster is hitting insurers hard with Fitch Ratings saying US life insurers have an estimated $7 billion to $8 billion in unrealized losses on subprime, reports The Wall Street Journ...
Interview with Brett Curran from Axentis
in Sox First, on February 22, 2008
... But let's take it further. It seems to me that the companies that should know better, like the insurers who are supposed to be the experts in risk management, are now losing billions of dollars f...
Subprime explained - crunch time glossary
in Sox First, on February 14, 2008
...g of one of their debt issues or to ensure that the debt issue doesn't get downgraded. Monoline insurers are supposed to make their money by using their good credit rating to justify the charging ...
Warren Buffet's offer is good for Buffett
in Sox First, on February 13, 2008
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Warren Buffett triggered a Wall Street rally when he offered to bail out troubled bond insurers in the US. But when you look at the deal closer, it's actually better for Buffett and Be...
The market talks to the Fed
in Sox First, on January 31, 2008
The Fed's one-two punch, cutting rates by half a percentage point , will not do the trick. The aim of the Fed is make it easier for business with better credit and cheaper money. But shortly after, Standard & Poor's spoiled the party by signalling it might lower its ratings on $53...
Individual Health Coverage is Great; Just Don't Get Sick
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on January 24, 2008
... be looked upon like bad drivers, who have to pay more for auto insurance . He expects health insurers, possibly with the help of government or employers, ultimately will develop coverage for hi...
Least Expensive and Most Expensive Cars to Insure
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on January 21, 2008
...n the nation, Insure.com calculated average car insurance premiums across three states and multiple insurers to put together the 2008 report." So this is a ranking of the insurance costs associat...
Buffett bonding
in Sox First, on January 3, 2008
...jects. Strategically, it's important because he's doing it at a time when when the big bond insurers are at risk of seeing their credit ratings downgraded amid the turmoil in the financial mar...
Charles Prince resigns - the domino theory of market meltdowns
in Sox First, on November 5, 2007
...Analysts estimate that $60 billion in such super-senior tranches are sitting on the books of banks, insurers and investment funds ." So if the problem is widespread, the question is who is next....
Fear and loathing on Wall Street
in Sox First, on November 2, 2007
...tal because of their exposures. About twice as much capital. Add to that the problems confronting insurers who insure mainstream debt instruments, such as subprime mortgages and their associated cre...
Should You Buy Travel Insurance?
in Hidden Travel Gems, on October 29, 2007
...fine print before signing to make sure what is and isn't covered. The US Association of Travel Insurers offers is a good place to get some info.
The same CNN story points to examples of travel...
Insurers Allowed into Venture Capital World Soon?
in China Venture News, on September 14, 2007
...n the near future.
According to a recent report in the paper, "China is drafting rules to let insurers start venture capital business..." The new regs would also encourage local governments...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 25
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 22, 2007
... the insurance industry (Berkshire's bread and butter), as well as the consequences to us all:
Insurers have always found it costly to ignore new exposures. Doing that in the case of terrorism, h...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 24
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 25, 2007
... launched in 1922, by a 45-year-old, semi-retired Illinois farmer, to compete with long-established insurers, haughty institutions in New York, Philadelphia and Hartford, that possessed overwhelming a...
A Golden Age for Insider Trading
in Sox First, on June 21, 2007
...s between two parties and only traded by the most sophisticated players like hedge funds, banks and insurers, is the key. But the problem is that it isn't clear that the Securities and Exchange Co...
Climate change liability risks
in Sox First, on June 7, 2007
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Climate change is shaping up as a nightmare liability issue for companies, insurers and directors. Consider these scenarios: a utility has a power outage caused by a climate change-related extrem...
Sustainability and insurance risks
in Sox First, on May 30, 2007
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Climate change might be the most serious environmental risk facing society and insurers but there are many other big ones ahead, according to a new report. The report, Insuring for Sustainabilit...
Insurance industry stands to benefit from Sun Distribution Channel Portal solution
in Java Entrepreneur, on May 22, 2007
...tribution channels. There are a range of software, servers, storage and services which can help the insurers in reaching new customers in a cost efficient manner through various non traditional channe...
Lack of worker safety data hindering nanotech development
in Nanotechbuzz, on December 7, 2006
...ured a wide range of participants from industry, academia, and government, as well as attorneys and insurers.
By far the most emphatic theme of the forum was the call for more data on worker safety i...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 13
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on November 13, 2006
...and takes the lucrative business.
An example from 1989 shows this. After Hurricane Hugo hit, many insurers and reinsurers were on bad shape. Berkshire stepped in and began writing a lot of policies ...
Updating accountants
in Sox First, on November 12, 2006
...audit leaders suggest relaxing the rule of liability. "Our firms are not and can never be the insurers of last resort for the capital markets, where capital flows each day are orders of magnitud...
Book Review: Health Care on Less Than You Think
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on November 1, 2006
...ductbile. (The proposal was $2,000 in 1972, which Brock equates to between $8,000 and $10,000 now.) Insurers could then sell individual policies for those who wanted lower deductibles.
The big upsid...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 12
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 25, 2006
...(which is why companies like Kellogg and General Mills sell at five times book value and most large insurers sell close to book). The cereal companies regularly impose price increases, few of them rel...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 11
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 16, 2006
...at it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright and recognize their need to buy promises only from insurers that have enduring financial strength. It is then that we have a major competitive advantag...
Diabetes Increases While Numbers Of Doctors Decrease
in Daily Diabetic, on August 31, 2006
...ist.
Complications from diabetes are now among the leading causes of death in this country. Health insurers spend billions of dollars a year treating the kidney failure, heart disease, blindness and ...
Nanotechnology: the new asbestos or the new plastic?
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 17, 2006
...oducts are expected to evolve in three stages:
1. An early study period, currently underway, where insurers and reinsurers study the issue.
2. The fear phase, frequently accentuated by unfounded but...
UN looks to boost socially responsible investing
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on July 19, 2006
...ment industry. UNEP FI is a unique public-private partnership between UNEP and more than 160 banks, insurers and asset managers.
"There is a growing worldwide understanding of the pivotal role t...
Gentiva® Cardiopulmonary Demonstrated Ability to Increase Patient Functionality, and Reduce Hospitalizations and Emergency Room Visits in a National Study
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 28, 2006
...s and their physicians in managing those diseases, and control expenditures for health insurers by limiting or eliminating the need for more costly institutional care.
Read the full report .
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Business and climate change
in Sox First, on June 13, 2006
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How well prepared are businesses for climate change? How well prepared are insurers? It's going have a massive impact on the bottom line of insurers warns Lloyds of London in a new repo...
Insurance for Your Home Business
in Bizinformer, on February 15, 2006
...al writes in this little vignette from the e-insure Journal, "[o]ne day, in a perfect world, insurers will write their policies in language so clear and concise that all their clients will read...
Outpatient angioplasty
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 14, 2005
...er, a Delaware cardiologist who heads the meeting committee but had no role in the research.
"Insurers are getting cranky" about hospital costs and will be enthused about ways to cut them, ...
An extra year of life
in Straightfromthedoc, on September 26, 2005
... Medicare program.
For instance, the study found that new pacemakers could cost Medicare and other insurers $1.4 million for every extra year of life they add. In comparison, healthcare economists of...
the insurance broker model
in TJ's Weblog, on October 25, 2004
...ally brokers are classic middlemen. They stand between companies that want to buy insurance and the insurers that sell it, taking a commission for services rendered. But the broker's job is...
economic reform in georgia
in TJ's Weblog, on August 5, 2004
... from 20% to 18%, and abolish 12 kinds of tax altogether. He wants to let leading foreign banks and insurers open branches freely. He wants to abolish laws on legal tender, so that investors can use w...