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...Last year’s national championship game between Iowa and Louisiana State University drew more viewers than baseball’s World Series....
...It features Iowa Hawkeyes women’s college basketball icon Caitlin Clark alongside NBA Championships finalist Jimmy Butler, selling car insurance for State Farm....
...Municipal debt has long been a haven asset class, popular with long-term investors including pension funds and insurance companies....
...Even in the midst of the longest bull market in history, it warned that its own Multiemployer Insurance Program was heading for insolvency by 2025, affecting 10m members....
...“There are friends of mine who say they are the only people who actually live on their block; everything around them is short-term rentals,” says John Guarnieri, president of the Bywater District Association...
...Those are all held by members of the Libra Association Council, who can buy a share of votes in $10m increments....
...A powerful lobby group for US banks is circling the wagons against SoFi, the biggest of a new breed of online lenders, urging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to reject its application to launch...
...According to industry data cited by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the industry-wide combined ratio ran at about 50 per cent between 1999 and 2006, before jumping to almost 250 per...
...Preston Kennedy, president and chief executive of Bank of Zachary, a three-branch bank based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, says he is encouraged by the Republicans’ pledge to undo an “oppressive” regime for...
...Five southeastern states alone — Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina and Texas — would shoulder $4.6bn in lost healthcare spending — nearly half of the total nationwide impact In the Republican...
...Emergency manager Kevyn Orr, who has said he hopes to see the city exit bankruptcy by October 15, continues to face opposition from bond insurers Financial Guaranty Insurance Co and Syncora....
...Another has likened strong regulation of it to requiring flood insurance for Madrid based on what happens in New Orleans....
...The Sweetener Users Association, backed by sweet and food companies such as Mars and Mondelez, was founded in the early 1980s....
...Mr Thiam, appointed chairman of the Association of British Insurers last year, says he finds the UK generally very welcoming....
...The Texas Hospital Association, which says hospitals in the state paid for $4.6bn in uncompensated care in 2010, said it wanted to see the state adopt its own health insurance exchange and use subsidies...
...But Mr Frank has left the stage, along with Sheila Bair, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Tim Geithner, Treasury secretary....
...Some US states – particularly those run by Republican governors such as Louisiana and Nebraska – are weighing getting rid of or shrinking their income tax, possibly boosting consumption taxes....
...AMR Corp, the bankrupt parent company of American Airlines, has offered to freeze, rather than terminate, the pension plans of many of its employees in a significant concession to the US pension insurance...
...United Guaranty, an AIG subsidiary that sells mortgage insurance to lenders, is taking a different stance from rivals by saying it will not give up its right to cancel insurance protection if mortgage lenders...
...It commented: “Crop insurance claims are expected to be the major source of income for the 2011 crop year.” Yet insurance is not expected to carry businesses for years....
...Elsewhere in the financial sector, S&P said it lowered insurers Knights of Columbus, New York Life, Northwestern Mutual, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America and United Services Automobile...
...At the same time, Standard & Poor’s affirmed the ‘AA+’ ratings on the members of five other insurance groups–Assured Guaranty, Berkshire Hathaway, Guardian, Massachusetts Mutual, and Western & Southern–and...
...Mr Frederico blames US insurance regulators, which have failed to set clear capital rules and have split up companies such as Ambac and MBIA in an effort to protect holders of municipal insurance....
...Conrad Voldstad is CEO of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association...
...Pat Felder, who runs a car parts distributor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, says her employee insurance premiums went up by 17 per cent last year, and she has been warned to expect a 20 per cent-plus rise this...
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