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...Communists traditionally lay flowers at the site of the Soviet leader’s grave in the Kremlin walls US: Super Tuesday for the presidential primary elections, with voting taking place in Alabama, Arkansas...
...In 2017, diabetes in the US cost $327bn, according to The American Diabetes Association. Some $237bn of this was medical costs, it notes, while $90bn was due to lost productivity....
...Dethroning China’s insurance king The chair of China’s biggest insurer has an alleged history of dodgy dealings in Hong Kong....
...Other states, including Georgia and Alabama, have seen similar spikes in new bookings, according to Key Data Dashboard, a software provider of rental figures....
...Even in the midst of the longest bull market in history, it warned that its own Multiemployer Insurance Program was heading for insolvency by 2025, affecting 10m members....
...The school advises students to budget $97,850 to cover living expenses, books, student health insurance, activities and university fees....
...Last November, an Alabama woman named Jennifer Flynn Cataldo was found guilty of fraudulently soliciting more than $35,000 on GoFundMe by falsely claiming she had terminal cancer....
...I collect it and it’s mine,” says Hasnaa Chennaoui, secretary-general of the Association for the Protection of Moroccan Geological Heritage, who also teaches at Université Hassan II in Casablanca....
...According to industry data cited by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the industry-wide combined ratio ran at about 50 per cent between 1999 and 2006, before jumping to almost 250 per...
...Housing, insurance, books, supplies and other expenses are likely to push that closer to $90,000. Even the tuition fees at less prestigious — but good — schools can be around $40,000 a year....
...Walt Disney began holding gay pride days at its theme parks in the early-1990s and extended health insurance benefits to its employees’ same-sex partners in 1995....
...In Alabama, for instance, the local BCBS group has a market share of 84 per cent, according to the American Medical Association....
...Emergency manager Kevyn Orr, who has said he hopes to see the city exit bankruptcy by October 15, continues to face opposition from bond insurers Financial Guaranty Insurance Co and Syncora....
...AMR Corp, the bankrupt parent company of American Airlines, has offered to freeze, rather than terminate, the pension plans of many of its employees in a significant concession to the US pension insurance...
...United Guaranty, an AIG subsidiary that sells mortgage insurance to lenders, is taking a different stance from rivals by saying it will not give up its right to cancel insurance protection if mortgage lenders...
...Elsewhere in the financial sector, S&P said it lowered insurers Knights of Columbus, New York Life, Northwestern Mutual, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America and United Services Automobile...
...At the same time, Standard & Poor’s affirmed the ‘AA+’ ratings on the members of five other insurance groups–Assured Guaranty, Berkshire Hathaway, Guardian, Massachusetts Mutual, and Western & Southern–and...
...Alabama, California and Puerto Rico recorded the biggest jumps in claims....
...Mr Frederico blames US insurance regulators, which have failed to set clear capital rules and have split up companies such as Ambac and MBIA in an effort to protect holders of municipal insurance....
...Syncora Guarantee and Assured Guaranty, two bond insurers now on the hook for some of the debt, are suing JPMorgan, saying the bank and the county “fraudulently induced” them to provide insurance....
...Conrad Voldstad is CEO of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association...
...“The market is clearly smaller than it was,” said Mark Casale, chief executive of one of the new entrants, Essent Guaranty....
...Meanwhile, drawn-out sales – such as that of Guaranty Financial, with $16bn assets – risk hurting the underlying business....
...The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is helping to manage the attempted sale of Guaranty, which last month said it was likely to join the lengthening list of banks that have failed this year....
...BBVA, the Spanish bank, on Friday succeeded in its acquisition of Guaranty Financial, a struggling Texas bank with $13.5bn in assets, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said....
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