Hints and tips:
...After a quiet start to the week for earnings, the results calls will pick up during the coming few days with insurance a strong theme in the UK as Aviva, Legal & General, Hiscox and Royal London report figures...
...Organisations such as Resolve: The National Infertility Association have lobbied to create more surrogacy-friendly laws....
...In February 1973, the American Medical Association published a landmark paper that reshaped the way the profession saw itself....
...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....
...Claire McAndrew, director of campaigns and partnerships at Families USA, an association representing consumers, said patients have “no real way of understanding the financial trap” which they have walked...
...The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon, includes two key proposals....
...There is no government-backed harvest insurance for hemp as there is for traditional crops....
...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...
...He cites a 2013 move by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to tighten rules on banks offering small-dollar loans known as deposit advances....
...Much of the initial push for state savings initiatives came from the American Association of Retired People, a non-profit organisation that, along with its advocacy for transfer programmes, also offers insurance...
...Founded in 1918, TIAA-CREF started out offering pension services as the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America....
...In the 12 months through March, Chinese buyers purchased $28.6bn of US residential property, up from $22bn in 2009, according to the National Association of Realtors....
...(Alcor advocates that clients pay through life insurance.) Russia also has the advantage of a clean slate, unlike the US with its history of scandals....
...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....
...The company, based in Portland, Oregon, had $673m in AUM the previous year....
...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...
...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....
...Job cuts declined in states such as Oregon, Iowa and Michigan, thanks to improvements in the car and manufacturing sectors....
...Conrad Voldstad is CEO of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association...
...“The market is clearly smaller than it was,” said Mark Casale, chief executive of one of the new entrants, Essent Guaranty....
...“Being good corporate citizens is important,” says Ed Tonkin, Nada’s current chairman, whose family owns more than a dozen dealerships in Portland, Oregon....
...Banks, supported by the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, warn it will destabilise markets....
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