Highlights of Senate jobless aid bill The Boston Globe | Highlights of Senate legislation extending unemployment insurance and expired tax breaks: | --Tax relief: Extends through 2010 a variety of popular tax breaks that expired at the end of 2009, including an individual income tax deduction for sales and property taxes, and a business tax credit for r...
Eurotunnel Ekes Out Profit for 2009 Despite Disasters The New York Times | PARIS — Eurotunnel Group said Tuesday that it managed to make a profit in 2009, despite lingering repercussions from a 2008 fire and the disastrous breakdown of Eurostar trains at the height of the year-end travel season. | Net profit fell 96 percent from a year earlier to €1.4 million,...
Health and Life Insurers Grapple With Climate Effects The New York Times | Biting bugs are buzzing northward and asthma has spread like a dust cloud, but there are deep divisions about how concerned health and life insurers should be about disease and death caused by climate change. | So far, this corner of the massive in...
Health Insurance Industry Defends Massive Profits... Complains It Is Being 'Vilified' Newsvine | Insurers have responded to the administration's campaign against recent rate hikes by blaming increasing health care costs, provider cost increases and adverse selection (healthier Americans are dropping coverage) for their premium increases. To he...
Swiss Re Puts Chile Quake Insurance Cost at $4-7BN The New York Times | Filed at 8:00 a.m. ET | GENEVA (AP) -- Swiss Reinsurance Co. said Wednesday that the strong earthquake in Chile last month will cost the insurance industry $4-7 billion, an estimate shared by its Germany-based rival Munich Re AG. | Swiss Re said it...
Highlights of Senate jobless aid bill The Boston Globe | Highlights of Senate legislation extending unemployment insurance and expired tax breaks: | --Tax relief: Extends through 2010 a variety of popular tax breaks that expired at the end of 2009, including an individual income tax deduction for sales a...
Settlements over dropped insurance lanquish San Fransisco Chronicle | A state committee is questioning why so few California consumers are taking advantage of settlements reached between state regulators and health insurers over the controversial industry practice of dropping coverage of members after they got sick. ...
Gov. Deval Patrick’s call to cap costs called unfair to insurers Boston Herald | Gov. will go to bat today for his controversial plan to impose price caps on health-care costs amid concerns he’s cracking down too hard on insurers and not enough on medical providers. | Patrick will appear before a joint meeting of two legi...
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Obama trains his guns on health insurance companies Samachaar Washington: Facing a tough legislative battle to push healthcare reforms, his key domestic priority, an aggressive President Barack Obama has trained his guns on private health ins...
Obama targets insurers, sells reform plan The Star | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama launched a sharp attack on health insurers on Monday and called on his fellow Democrats to rise above politics and pass a healthcare...
AIG sells Alico for US$15.5b Hong Kong Standard American International Group is selling its foreign life insurance unit to MetLife for about US$15.5 billion (HK$120.9 billion), its second major asset sale in a week as it raises ...
Senate rejects health insurance changes The Daily Telegraph Australia | THE Federal Government has attacked the Opposition for rejecting its private health insurance changes, saying it will now be tougher to return the Budget to surplus. | The Senate has knocked back the Government's plan to means test the 30 per cent ...
Eurotunnel Ekes Out Profit for 2009 Despite Disasters The New York Times | PARIS — Eurotunnel Group said Tuesday that it managed to make a profit in 2009, despite lingering repercussions from a 2008 fire and the disastrous breakdown of Eurostar trains at the height of the year-end travel season. | Net profit fell 96...
Union, Other Healthcare Bill Supporters 'Arrest' Health Insurance Leaders KDVR In a reverse twist on the old protestors' tactic of getting arrested to make a point, union leaders and other backers of President Obama's healthcare plan issued "citizen's arrest" warrants for health insurance executives Tuesday – accusing the...
Benitez leaps to Gerrard defence IC Newcastle 11:45, Mar 10 2010 | | Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has defended Steven Gerrard following allegations the midfielder made a V sign towards referee Andre Marriner during the defeat by Wigan. | Benitez said after the game he had not seen the incident and after reviewing it on video believes there is no case to answer. | "Sometimes you move...
China's Exports Rise 46% The New York Times | BEIJING —China announced Wednesday that its exports climbed 46 percent in February from a year earlier. Economists said the data signaled a rebound in consumer demand from the United States and other Western markets after the financial crisis last year. | It was the third consecutive month of increases in Chinese exports and the fastest gro...
