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...Fitch downgraded Allstate’s holding-company credit to BBB+ from A- earlier this year, citing “sharp underwriting result deterioration”....
...Key economic and company reports Here is a more complete list of what to expect in terms of company reports and economic data this week....
...Big insurers such as State Farm and Allstate said recently they had suspended offering home insurance to new customers in California....
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Alistair Watson, partner at law firm Taylor Wessing, welcomed the reforms and said the government was showing “a serious amount of planning swagger”....
...Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, yesterday published details of plans to find £10m of savings, partly cutting some curators’ jobs....
...These inspectors can only operate with professional indemnity and public liability insurance....
...“He’s v bright, tough and politically savvy with a small p,” tweeted Rupert Harrison, the former Tory chancellor’s one-time chief adviser....
...Trump v the Squad The latest on Donald Trump (sorry)....
...An England v Bulgaria match brought racism in football to the fore. Star England player Raheem Sterling has long highlighted the problem, and what he perceives as the media’s role in fuelling it....
...Huissoud’s designs for pollinating insects will be installed at Thurloe Square Garden, in front of the V&A, from September 14-22, and will address an ongoing ecological crisis — falling numbers of insects...
...“We were like a car company trying to build a Formula One racer,” says Kopp....
...According to data from CB Insights and Willis Towers Watson, between 2012 and the first quarter of 2019, there were 627 deals involving investment in property and casualty insurtech companies....
...When King George V stayed here in 1912, 40,000 people packed the gardens to watch him arrive. He was a guest of its former owner, the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam....
...Which company developed the modern pin-tumbler lock?...
...Synth company Teenage Engineering will transform the space into a 1970s discotheque, while sound artist Yuri Suzuki cuts records....
...One thing to start: Aon is considering an all-stock merger with rival Willis Towers Watson....
...The Normal Training School of Art was reinvented as the National Art Training School in 1863 and located in what is now the V&A museum....
...But it is not the only insurance company with a financial interest in sport....
...All have professional indemnity insurance to cover this. The Financial Reporting Council investigates the audits undertaken on firms that subsequently fail....
...(Newsweek) Cancer claims IBM pitched its Watson supercomputer as a real breakthrough in cancer care but a report suggests the company failed to fully assess the challenges of deploying it in hospitals....
...In The Circle, the heroine Mae Holland (played by Emma Watson in the film) goes to work at a West Coast internet company, whose vast and rambling campus is described in the novel’s opening sentence as “heaven...
...To me the manic, flashing, multi-coloured eyes give off a creepy air of over-enthusiasm, the voice (a bit like E.V.A from Wall-E) is sterile, almost sinister....
...(The Guardian) Video of the day Japan’s economy v company reform Abenomics has one bright point: Japanese corporate governance is improving fast....
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