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1 hr ago | MySanAntonio.com

Insuring young key to health care overhaul

The young invincibles. That's what the insurance industry calls them. They're the 13.7 million Americans under 30 who don't have health insurance because, they firmly believe, they just don't need it.

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, District Heights, MD

5 hrs ago | The Toronto Star

Dubai debt delay rattles global investors

The Toronto stock market closed sharply lower Thursday amid news from Dubai that the government's flagship investment company is in deep financial trouble.

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Related Topix: Canada, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Manulife Financial, Fairfax Financial Holdings, Sun Life Financial

9 hrs ago | Business Insurance

Swiss Re places $75M bond to cover extreme mortality risk

Swiss Reinsurance Co. has transferred $75 million of extreme mortality risk in the United States and United Kingdom to the capital markets in a securitized transaction through a Cayman Islands company.

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Related Topix: Cayman Islands, Central America, World News

Thu Nov 26, 2009

South Florida Business Journal

QBE target of another lawsuit

After winning a case in Miami federal court, attorney Daniel S. Rosenbaum has filed a another lawsuit against QBE Insurance Corp.

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Related Topix: Miami, FL, Miami Metro, Brown and Brown Insurance, Miami Dade County, FL, West Palm Beach Metro

KXAM-TV Austin

Auto insurance may parallel healthcare

Thousands of drivers on the nation's roads don't carry auto insurance, despite laws in all but two states requiring it.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, University of Pennsylvania, Healthcare Law, Law, W.

KTLA-TV Los Angeles

Capmark Financial gets approval to complete sale of North American units

Capmark Financial Group Inc. said it has received approval to complete the $515 million sale of its North American servicing and mortgage banking units to a joint venture owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Construction, Berkshire Hathaway, Investment Services, Economics News, Bankruptcy

Chillicothe Gazette

Police: Party Hoax in Ohio Draws Unruly Crowd

FAIRFIELD -- Police in the Cincinnati area said they fired a spray of pepper balls to break up a crowd of hundreds of teens drawn to a night club by rumors of a free party.

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Related Topix: Ohio, Cincinnati Financial

Chicago Business

Ex-Aon exec. to get $4M to run non-profit

Former Aon Corp. executive Ted Devine, who resigned abruptly last week to start an Aon-financed project promoting sports for kids around the world, will receive nearly $4 million from Aon over the next two years if he continues to run the non-profit. Until last week, Mr.

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Related Topix: AON, Non-Profit, Business News

PittsburghLIVE.com

Insurance, pharmaceutical honchos got White House treatment

The heads of health insurance and pharmaceutical trade groups were among those visiting the White House as President Barack Obama pushed Congress to overhaul health care, White House records show.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Wellpoint Health Networks, George Bush

Wed Nov 25, 2009

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HCL Technologies signs $200-million deal with Equitable Life

Indian IT major HCL today said that it has been awarded a major service contract by Equitable Life Assurance Society with a total contract value of $200 million, through its affiliate HCL IBS.

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Related Topix: Computers, IT Services

WDAF

AIG settles legal disputes with former chairman Hank Greenberg

American International Group Inc. has agreed to settle all legal disputes with its former chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the company said late Wednesday.

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Related Topix: American International Group, Personal Finance, Retirement

Insurance Journal West

Missouri to Distribute $75M to General American Policyholders

More than 300,000 current and former policyholders of General American Life Insurance Co.

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The Winnipeg Free Press

Sun Life touts multi-employer DC plan as solution to many pension woes

An easily accessible defined contribution plan available to all employers, including the self-employed, was touted by a senior Sun Life Financial executive Tuesday as a means for greatly increasing pension coverage among Canadians.

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Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance, Sun Life Financial, Travel

Business Journal of Charlotte

Illinois firm buys Shuford Insurance Agency

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Shuford Insurance Agency Inc. of Concord.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Arthur JGallagher

Tue Nov 24, 2009

KTXL-TV Sacramento

Obama's financial overhaul plan doesn't concern bank regulator facing elimination

A top bank regulator is throwing cold water on a financial overhaul plan the Obama administration wants to see passed quickly.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, American International Group

The Plain Dealer

AIG approves $7 million pay package for CEO Benmosche

Updated at 6:26 p.m. NEW YORK -- American International Group Inc. on Tuesday that it would go ahead with a previously announced pay package for its new CEO Robert Benmosche of $7 million in cash and stock.

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Related Topix: American International Group, MetLife

MarketWatch

Ambac CFO resigns

Ambac Financial said Tuesday that Chief Financial Officer Sean Leonard resigned effective immediately, a possible sign of continuing trouble at the bond insurer.

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Related Topix: Ambac Financial Group

NY Daily News

Officials take AIG's side, press pay czar to easy pay limits

Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's pay czar, is being pressed by federal officials to relax executive compensation restrictions at American International Group Inc for 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Related Topix: American International Group

Kansas City Business Journal

OTS bans Orr brothers from banking

Robert and Leland Orr, founders of bankrupt Brooke Corp. , have been banned for life from the banking industry.

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Related Topix: Phillipsburg, KS

The Chronicle-Journal

Kingsway Financial to sell majority interest in Jevco Insurance Co.

Kingsway Financial Services Inc. said Monday it plans to sell its majority interest in Jevco Insurance Co.

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Related Topix: Kingsway Financial Services

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