Hints and tips:
...The Big Read Millions of homeowners worldwide are on the front line of an insurance affordability crisis....
...(Some platforms offer protection via insurance, for example, and barriers to entry for big-ticket rentals, such as a required number of positive user reviews.)...
...Not so, says Professor Ben Goldacre, director of Oxford University’s Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science....
...Dame Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, was praised for her services to fashion and publishing, and the author Sir Ian McEwan for his services to literature....
...Public expenditure minister Paschal Donohoe recently told an Irish Times podcast that “not spending every cent is the best insurance policy you can have”....
...In agony, she insisted on being taken to a hospital that was covered by her health insurance, even though it was further away. “But my surgeon was out of network,” Porter added....
...In Germany, older people can take tax-free part-time “mini-jobs”, where employers pay lower national insurance. Work shouldn’t feel like an eternal grind but it too often does....
...“A lot of the language [about decentralisation] is an almost exact replica of what we talked about in the 1990s,” says Martha Bennett, who at the time was head of advanced technology at UK insurance group...
...Last resort Sam Bankman-Fried’s $1bn bet to bail out the cryptosphere is also an insurance policy against his expanding empire....
...Surrounded by those people, those families enjoying that moment of specialness, I realised that by swallowing his ego, banishing pretension and building a menu around dishes that people love, with service...
...Using its pristine balance sheet, GE lost billions in everything from subprime mortgages to offering long-term care insurance to the elderly....
...We lack the social insurance of large gas stocks. Uncertainty about the wisdom of policymakers will persist after the [Liz] Truss experiment....
...Jodi Daniel, partner, Crowell & Moring Since leaving the US Department of Health and Human Services in 2015, where she helped draft the rules on protecting patient privacy in the Health Insurance Portability...
...At the same time, high energy costs and the increase in National Insurance contributions will hit those on lower incomes hardest....
...suggested a conditional date for reopening, a set of clear safety measures that theatres can put in place (perhaps a kite mark system), financial support for smaller venues to achieve this and help with insurance...
...Bill Foley, an insurance executive, has launched three and is aiming to raise $1.2bn in a fourth unveiled this month....
...So far, with help from Rest Less, the online community for the over-50s, he has applied to supermarkets Tesco, Asda and Morrisons, to work as an NHS porter and a Christmas postman, as well as for consulting...
...”, according to Porter Erisman, author of the 2015 book Alibaba’s World....
...“The threat actors realised they can amplify their impact by targeting specific companies such as managed service providers,” said Mr Bennett....
...Companies may rethink the need for buffers as economic insurance . Inventories could rise, increasing business costs. Suppliers closer to home could be found, again at higher cost....
...But, as befits the first hotel to offer room service, all residents will have access to the services of the hotel (“at an ultra-luxury level”), mediated through “concierge closets”, spaces between the staff...
...No vaguely affordable US public healthcare coverage could work without compulsory insurance....
...And as both the Yoox Net-a-Porter and BA examples show, there are urgent questions for businesses, too. The writer is Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge...
...Composer Cole Porter used to live here, as did former US president Herbert Hoover and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Frank Sinatra sang in the glittering ballroom....
...The BBC also shot a remake of Alan Bennett’s classic Talking Heads in April, but needless to say there are limits to the market for monologue drama....
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