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...Recently disclosed annual results showed the resulting cost to several New York-listed groups, which were required to implement the bookkeeping change under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles last...
...Assurant declined to comment. The developments highlight the risks that insurers run as they experiment with different distribution methods....
...Instead it acts as a broker, passing on the risk to traditional players such as Allianz and Assurant....
...Protect Your Bubble, which is owned by New-York listed Assurant, said it used The Fone Clinic among several other repair companies. “We will monitor the situation closely,” it added....
...Consumer group Which? says that while consumers are receiving refunds, the regulator “must come down hard on any who continue to put the squeeze on their policyholders by hikingpremiums.”...
...Donovan favours US technology, healthcare and certain consumer goods groups....
...The Belgian financial services group said on Thursday that interim net profits rose 18 per cent to €2.54bn ($3.1bn)....
...Excluding the sale of Spanish insurer Seguros Bilbao and the divestment of its share in US company Assurant, profits increased 26 per cent....
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