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...So the calculus that I had was “OK, if I move forward and file this lawsuit, I have no income because they’ve made clear they’re gonna fire me....
...“The fact of the matter is [that] this is far broader than just insurance brokerage,” Williams said, although he adds that insurance is likely to remain the company’s largest business line....
...If private platforms do not provide both of these protections, governments are likely to step in. What about the personal question?...
...Economic malaise and social tensions are engulfing western democracies, he warns....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...From 2018, they will also attract employer national insurance....
...IAC took a $66.6m writedown on its investment and by November, Aereo had filed for bankruptcy protection....
...(FT’s Global Markets Overview) Israel and the Palestinian factions, including Gaza’s ruling Islamist Hamas movement, have accepted an Egyptian proposal to cease fire from 0500 GMT on August 5 for at least...
...The Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act had “added some fuel to this fire” by making the whole system more cost-conscious, he added....
...Just 12 months after claiming that the chancellor was “playing with fire” with his deficit reduction programme, the IMF raised its forecast for UK growth to 2.9 per cent this year – the fastest of any country...
...The largest coal miner in Britain was rescued last year by the Pension Protection Fund, which preserves the pensions of employees whose companies go bust. But it is on the brink of insolvency again....
...A more rank-and-file example is Miguel Caballero, a maker of personal ballistic protection products....
..., which owns 7.5 per cent of the company....
...Group trading profit, which rose by 3.7 per cent to £1.8bn, would have been 4.5 percentage points higher without a £57m one-off provision for personal protection insurance mis-selling claims....
...Tesco also revealed that it had increased provisions for potential claims for the alleged mis-selling of payment protection insurance policies by £57m to £92m....
...Following a bidding war with another company, Validus acquired IPC for $1.7bn....
...In the pharmaceutical sector, the question is which company’s drugs are about to come out of patent protection. Any such information is grist to the quant mill of PanAgora’s stock selection process....
...“Insurance is not about speculation, but about the protection of the interests of policyholders,” he says, adding that unwinding a failed insurer is a simpler and much slower job than for a failed bank....
...The price of its credit default swaps – the cost of insurance against the company not being able to pay its debts – began to rise sharply....
...AIG at the weekend detailed the use of the bailout funds to counterparties and, as with many recipients of US rescue funds, the insurer is under fire for how it is managing the aid....
...BNP offered to pay about €1.60 per Fortis share – well below Friday’s €5.20 closing price – and demanded protection from up to €6bn of future losses....
...In the view of several present and former AIG executives, Mr Sullivan was a brilliant insurance man but the group had become much more than an insurance company and he lacked a deep understanding of the...
...First, there is deposit protection up to a certain level, either a legally underpinned co-operative model as in the UK, or a pre-funded system as run by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
...class action lawsuits and claims relating to Countrywide’s merger with Bank of America: …filed against the Company and other defendants in Los Angeles Superior Court, the U.S....
...down – insurance schemes....
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