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...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for its federally underwritten National Flood Insurance Program — which is how most Americans get flood insurance — are outdated....
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...You can buy travel insurance from insurance companies, banks, travel agents, supermarkets, holiday companies and online comparison websites....
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...First: the insurance sector is continuing to pay large ransoms to hackers, on behalf of companies, even though the governments of countries such as the US and UK have urged them to stop, arguing that this...
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...“What we have here is the plot of the movie Footloose [about a ban on dancing in a small town] in real life in Seattle,” he says....
...A body representing global insurance regulators has called for “enhanced supervision” of private capital-owned life insurers, citing potential “conflicts of interest” and “increased risk-taking”....
...The Belgian company reinforced the idea that this is a cut-price, opportunistic bid, with a second cash-and-shares proposal of about 239p per share....
...Morgan thinks the US Federal Reserve will probably pave the way to a soft landing for America and the world economy, but adds that there are risks of a crash in the event of increasing geopolitical instability...
...The company is asking shareholders again to vote in favour of Elon Musk’s 2018 pay package — the same one nullified earlier this year by the Delaware Court of Chancery....
...But Stern has been prone to delays that sap investors’ returns and necessitate additional financing. He has also fallen out with partners....
...Based on the price of these options, strategists at Bank of America say markets are now pricing in a more than 10 per cent chance of such a scenario within the next six months....
...The National Basketball Association has banned a player for life for gambling on the sport, the first time the league has handed down the maximum penalty since legal sports wagering began in the US....
...But medtech remains one of the biggest growth segments within life sciences in the UK....
...By the mid-1800s, the US bracketed the landmass called North America....
...Rossi, who became chief executive in late 2022, highlighted the group’s investment performance across its funds and the contribution from the life insurance business as the reasons behind the company’s recent...
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...The company’s pool of investors for the bonds has dwindled, and much of the group’s longer dated paper remains firmly in distressed territory, below a widely recognised threshold of 70 cents on the dollar...
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