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...Shipping insurance was needed to underwrite the buyers who, under the US-led sanctions regime, were legally allowed to buy some threshold of oil from Iran....
...The company also bought a $13mn stake in investment bank Jefferies and purchased $300mn worth of building materials maker Louisiana-Pacific....
...Other sectors such as insurance have also been stung as they soak up the pain of rising raw material costs to repaint cars involved in crashes....
...“If you don’t have insurance, you’re more likely to delay seeking care until you get very sick,” says Ms Wilson, the EPI economist....
...This co-operative system became known as the poldermodel. It’s often seen as the basis for today’s Dutch politics of eternal coalition....
...It is expected to produce an additional 15-30 cm of rain as it moves into south-western Louisiana....
...The Insurance Information Institute said flood damage could match that caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when the National Flood Insurance Program paid out more than $15bn, Reuters reported....
...In co-ordinated TV appearances, White House officials attempted to poke holes in the CBO’s report, alleging that the watchdog did not fully understand the legislation....
...Barney Frank, the former Democratic congressman who co-authored the Dodd-Frank bill, says the president-elect has already created contradictions that he will struggle to manage....
...Dr LaCorte had previously won a share of a $250m US settlement with Merck & Co in 2008 involving similar allegations relating to a heartburn drug called Pepcid....
...Car plants as far afield as Louisiana and Ohio had to halt production for a lack of parts, from microcontrollers to paint. Yet Tohoku is on the periphery....
...Ms Merkel’s justice minister warned that the attackers identified as migrants were members of an organised crime network who co-ordinated using smartphones and social networks....
...Louisiana would have to spend more than its entire transportation budget if everyone who was eligible was treated with Sovaldi, says Express Scripts....
...Zurich Insurance will investigate whether undue pressure was placed on its chief financial officer before his suicide....
...The overnight temperature at the Moorhead, Minnesota, headquarters of the American Crystal Sugar beet co-operative plunged to minus 14C on Monday night....
...The Co-op is close to selling its life insurance business and plans to make several other divestments to cover the gap, which is the first to emerge after a regulatory review of banks’ balance sheets....
...Bill Dudley, Federal Reserve Bank of New York president, recently quizzed prominent investors, including Alan Howard, co-founder of Brevan Howard, and David Tepper, co-founder of Appaloosa Management, about...
...“It was the leading, if not the only, reason hospitals made the deal with the administration to exchange cuts for coverage,”says Sheryl Skolnick, co-head of research at the CRT Capital Group....
...Asbestos and pollution-related insurance claims nearly cost Lloyd’s of London its life more than two decades ago, but the insurance market now seems to have learnt its lesson....
...what is considered a good franchise in the world’s fastest-growing insurance market....
...uncertainty facing Cameron in the litigation associated with the Deepwater Horizon event,” said Jack Moore, Cameron chief executive, adding that at least $170m of the settlement with BP would be funded by insurance...
...It was fitting, then, that the first Live Read in New York (co-sponsored by Film Independent and the New York Times) should be Billy Wilder’s romantic comedy The Apartment (1960) set in a Manhattan in which...
...The letter was co-signed by 37 congressmen....
...General Motors was the first company to admit to a direct impact from shortages of Japanese parts, saying it was halting production at a Louisiana plant....
..., more co-payments by patients may all be needed.”...
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