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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....
...Indeed, France has already done trial runs, delivering surprises for insurance companies and banks. Van Steenis might be over-optimistic with his timetable, since he is a fan of these green tests....
...Tim Cook, Apple chief executive, said on Twitter that the company would donate to restore Notre-Dame’s “precious heritage for future generations”....
...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....
...This will remove over £1bn from the cost of providing motor insurance. We expect the industry to pass on this saving, so motorists see an average saving of £40-50 per year off their insurance bills....
...(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....
...“We are creating a brand that reflects the company’s heritage.”...
..., 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....
...Shapiro puts it characteristically vividly when he argues: “America is what it is because of our immigration heritage. Without it we will lose our creative fire.”...
...In June of 1978, an M 7.7 earthquake 35 km to the southwest caused 22 fatalities and over 400 injuries.” 1935 – Matthew Kennard, one of the FT’s Washington correspondents, is just off of the White House...
...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....
...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...
...down – insurance schemes....
...Having said that there is a question over whether some of the insurers, which include the monoline insurers as well as other large insurance companies such as AIG, will be able to honour their insurance....
...Tokio Marine and Nichido Fire, Japan’s largest non-life insurer, has agreed to pay £442m for Kiln, the Lloyds insurance group, in the largest overseas acquisition by a Japanese insurance group....
...Holliday Jr., Chairman and CEO, DuPont, USA Kunio Ishihara, Member of the Board, President, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co....
...They offered to show videos of the Twin Towers coming down and the fires at the Pentagon, but I declined....
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