Wednesday, March 28, 2012

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Disasters Hit Lloyd's of London
Wall Street Journal
The UK's 324-year-old insurance and reinsurance market also said 2012 remains challenging for insurers with tough economic conditions globally. And despite the losses, insurance rates may rise only slowly because insurers have bulked up on capital, ...
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Asbestos: court ruling opens way for insurance claims
BBC News
The UK Supreme Court has made a ruling which could allow thousands of insurance claims by families of people who died after exposure to asbestos. The court placed insurance liability at the time an employee was exposed to asbestos, not when symptoms ...
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CT Auto Insurance Experts at Paradiso Insurance Issue Tips on how to Combat ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
While the insurance experts may not be able to lower their clients' gas prices, they do know of some ways to balance the financial burden by helping people save money on their CT auto insurance. Stafford Springs, Connecticut (PRWEB) March 28, ...
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Insurance mandate gets grilling by justices
Columbus Dispatch
Kennedy's skepticism could pose mortal danger to the new law, which mandates that Americans buy health insurance or face a government fine. Although Kennedy was appointed to the bench in 1988 by Republican President Ronald Reagan, he has emerged as the ...
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BH Gold Insurance Agency Highlights Five Things Business Owners Should Do Now ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
While many companies have California business liability insurance, they must remember that these policies do have limits when it comes to covering the cost of claims related to injuries and faulty products. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) March 28, 2012 The team ...
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National Critical Illness Insurance Buyer Study Released
MarketWatch (press release)
As a result, critical illness insurance protection is increasingly being purchased by individuals between ages 25 and 45, to provide immediate cash payment upon diagnosis of serious health conditions. Roughly half (49%) of men and 46 percent of women ...
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Insurance, pensions remain issues for county council
Muncie Star Press
Chief among them, purely in terms of dollars, was the health insurance expense for 400-plus county employees. Council Republican Rick Spangler, who has been raising concerns about health insurance costs for several months, again noted the county spent ...
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$370 Billion Econ. Losses for 2011; $116 Billion Insured, Says Swiss Re
Insurance Journal
2011 also holds the record for the highest insured earthquake losses – from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami – at $49 billion. Just for good measure the series of floods that hit Thailand set a new record for insured flood losses at $12 billion.
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Disasters in other states boost Florida insurance premiums
Palm Beach Post
By Eliot Kleinberg ORLANDO — For decades, people nationwide paid higher insurance rates for catastrophic and costly hurricanes in places such as Florida. Lately, it has been the other way around. In recent years, thunderstorms and tornadoes are ...
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Getahn Ward: TN studies health exchange despite legal distraction
The Tennessean
As the guy leading work on Tennessee's health insurance exchange, Brian Haile is watching intently as US Supreme Court legal arguments wrap up today to determine whether the federal health reform law is constitutional. Haile says he's fascinated by the ...
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COLUMN: What's at stake if healthcare law is overturned
Reuters
While two-thirds of Americans oppose the individual insurance mandate that is at the heart of the Obama Administration's healthcare reform law, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, the polls also reveal more nuanced attitudes.
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Halifax rebuked over pet insurance
The Press Association
The Financial Ombudsman Service has rebuked Halifax after it made a potentially "misleading" claim promising life-long insurance to pet owners. Halifax, which is part of Lloyds Banking Group, previously advertised "life-long" pet insurance cover, ...
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AXE Insurance Document Generation Project Using Windward Software Nets ...
PR Web (press release)
This award winning insurance company switched to a new document generation tool and it really paid off. "Windward saved us a fortune. We never would have met the time constraints - and we would have blown the budgets - had we used tools we previously ...
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PR Web (press release)
Not everybody hates health reform
CNN
By Jose Pagliery @CNNMoney March 28, 2012: 5:32 AM ET Employees at the Portland, Ore., store Paloma Clothing are all offered health insurance. The shop's co-owner hopes it'll get cheaper if insurance exchanges go online in 2014.
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The Court and the Mandate: Let the 'Left' Be Left Again
Huffington Post
The world's been turned upside down by the Supreme Court hearings on the individual insurance mandate. Left is right, right is wrong, and the future is uncertain. There are only two approaches to health care that we know are constitutional: a ...
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US supreme court to consider final arguments on Obama's health reforms
The Guardian
The third day of hearings will consider whether the entire 450 provisions of the healthcare legislation will fall, including requirements barring discrimination in insurance rates and forbidding insurance companies from refusing coverage to people with ...
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Illinois officials offer insurance help to Harrisburg
The State Journal-Register
By Anonymous The Associated Press The Illinois Department of Insurance will offer a free counseling session to Harrisburg residents affected by last month's tornado. The session will be Thursday from noon to 5 pm at Old National Bank No.
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Hooper Holmes Selected by Highland Capital Brokerage to Provide Efficient Data ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BASKING RIDGE, NJ, Mar 28, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Hooper Holmes (ASE:HH) today announced an agreement with Highland Capital Brokerage, Inc., a national insurance brokerage firm, to provide efficient data acquisition and processing solutions.
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Home Value Protection Insurance Comes to Indiana
Insurance Journal
With a Home Value Protection policy, homeowners can insure the market value of their home—the largest financial asset of most families—from volatile market cycles. "Housing prices have been, and will continue to be, notoriously difficult to predict," ...
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Health Care Reform in the Balance As Insurance Company and Hospital Chain ...
Huffington Post
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is a $9 billion-a-year company that owns 19 hospitals, employs 3240 doctors, and has its own insurance business, the Journal reports. Highmark covers 60 percent of the people with insurance in Allegheny ...
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Title insurance will protect homebuyer
The Province
"I called my lawyer, and it turned out that she had purchased title insurance for me, and it covered this," says Brewis, a single mother in her 50s. "Thank goodness that she did or I would have had to take out a second mortgage on my home.
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Missouri senator seeks insurance for inspection shops
Kansas City Star
JEFFERSON CITY -- Vehicle inspection stations in Missouri would have to carry insurance to cover vehicle damage done by employees, under legislation moving through the state Senate. Missouri requires inspections every two years for older vehicles.
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Genworth Bets on Long-Term Care as Insurers Flee Market
Bloomberg
Genworth, ranked by trade group Limra among the top five long-term care insurance providers since at least 2007, stayed focused on the market as the US population ages and a hedging strategy guards against declines in bond yields.
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'Insurance sector not able to catch up'
Business Today
Amarnath Ananthanarayanan, MD & CEO, Bharti AXA, talks to Chandralekha Mukerji about the most recent changes in the insurance sector and their impact. Q. Irda has finally decided to dismantle the commercial third-party motor pool and replace it with a ...
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