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...Last week, two more shiny new regulatory appliances started to roll off the EU’s legislative assembly line: a due diligence law making companies liable for environmental and human rights abuses in their...
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...Refining and expanding this technology seems a sensible insurance policy in uncertain times....
...As prices rocket higher, many are faced with soaring calls for more margin, a form of insurance they must deposit at an exchange to maintain their bets....
...The latter two are considered “core services”, because rent costs can be sticky and Americans don’t necessarily pay increases in owners’ equivalent rent in real time....
...Over the next 16 years, he spearheaded a string of deals, buying brokerage EF Hutton, investment bank Lehman Brothers, insurance firm Fireman’s Fund and other businesses that turned the charge-card company...
...The flood maps that Fema uses to set premiums for its federally underwritten National Flood Insurance Program — which is how most Americans get flood insurance — are outdated....
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...“The biggest barrier is insurance companies,” said Lawrence Honig, a neurologist at New York’s Columbia University Irving Medical Center....
...“There are still many companies that do not insure the cargo for war risk until their ships cross into Ukrainian waters and take the risk due to the current high costs of insurance.”...
...But the listing has proved complicated for American banks because ChemChina was placed on a US government watchlist of companies with ties to the Chinese military....
...Many customers are buying weight-loss drugs outside insurance schemes as obesity is not a widely covered condition in the US....
...And despite the threat of tougher enforcement, the policies have never been cheaper, thanks to an increasing number of insurance companies entering the market....
...Big private equity-cum-asset managers buy insurance companies (see also: Apollo/Athene, Brookfield/American Equity) not to cross-sell, but to gain a source of stable capital....
...The pledge comes three years after the insurance market apologised for its role in the trade, which included extending crucial insurance to voyages and even insuring slaves as cargo....
...I’m paying for that when I pay my insurance. Consequently, I think the American public is getting it, understanding it....
...significant opportunities for food and agricultural businesses”....
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