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...“The basic fact is that pandemic risk is not insurable,” said Jimi Grande, head of government affairs at the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies....
...Amazon has bought an online pharmacy and entered into a joint venture, Haven, with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway, which aims to create a new kind of health insurance for the companies’ 1m employees....
...The report issued by the Norwegian Shipowners’ Mutual War Risks Insurance Association, or DNK, said the attacks could have been intended as a message to the US and its allies that Iran did not need to block...
...At NYSE, Mr Chai was involved in the company’s global expansion, including its 2006 acquisition of Euronext and its investment in India’s national stock exchange....
...The disposal leaves The Hartford, whose history stretches back to 1810, focused on property casualty insurance and employee benefits....
...It will complete our exit from the run-off life and annuity businesses and strengthen our focus on growing our market-leading property and casualty, group benefits and mutual funds businesses....
...Several Japanese insurance companies including the National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural co-operatives, Nippon Life, Daido Life and Dai-ichi Life also hold substantial ETF investments....
...Guggenheim, whose clients range from the New York police pension fund and regional insurance companies to jet-setting billionaires like casino tycoon Frank Fertitta, has faced months of upheaval due to an...
...KBC, a bancassurer created through the 1998 merger of Kredietbank, ABB insurance and agricultural mutual Cera, took a €7bn bail out during the financial crisis from the Belgian federal government and the...
...The insurer, which is more than 200 years old, has overhauled its operations in recent years to focus on property-casualty cover, as well as group benefits and mutual funds....
...Already, campaigners representing the self-employed are lobbying against higher national insurance bills, which they dub the “strivers’ tax”....
...Other investors include Bain Capital Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, and investment manager Franklin Resources....
...Companies seeking access for a new drug to the NHS’s 64m patients must first convince England’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) and similar bodies in Scotland and Wales of its cost-effectiveness...
...The buyback plan is Northfield, Illinois-based Kraft Foods’ first since it became an independent company in October 2012. ” (Bloomberg) “AT&T, the biggest U.S. phone company, said on Tuesday that it would...
...“In New York, New Jersey, by all sorts of normal measures, it was a hurricane,” said Neil Alldredge, senior vice-president of state and policy affairs at the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies...
...still below the national average....
...Half-a-dozen intruders recently burst into the TD Bank branch in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania....
...As incredible as it may seem, there are yet more casualties. The mortgage insurers, for example, fared just a bit better than their credit insurance cousins....
...But the homogenising factor developed over the years was bond insurance....
...National City and Fifth Third, two Ohio-based lenders, and Pennsylvania-based Sovereign Bancorp used the rebound to reiterate to shareholders and customers that their businesses were sound....
...He joined Freddie in 2003 after serving as chairman of Thermo Electron, a company that makes industrial instruments....
...The chances of the average homeowner not getting an insurance claim paid if AIG’s holding company had been allowed to go under were slim, since its local property and casualty operations are sturdy and well-run...
...on behalf of insurance companies, large employers and other organisations....
...Insurance companies, mutual funds and pension funds alone are estimated to have $80bn of exposure and the banking sector’s exposure is in excess of $200bn....
...He has made an approach to Washington Mutual, one of the largest US regional banks, but had his offer dismissed as too low....
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