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CHICAGO—Balloting is open for the 2010 Business Insurance Readers Choice Awards. Read more: |
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YICHUN CITY, China—Amlin P.L.C. led insurance coverage of an airliner that crashed Tuesday in northeast China with 91 passengers aboard, a market source said. Read more: |
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Large employers that have adopted cash balance pension plans since 2006 include: Read more: |
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CHICAGO—Business Insurance has promoted an editorial staffer in Chicago. Read more: |
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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission litigation alleging discrimination against or harassment of males, including selected settled and active cases. Read more: |
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A Labrador retriever that consumed a pesticide-soaked beehive containing thousands of dead bees—and lived—has something else to gnaw on: this year's Veterinary Pet Insurance Co.'s Hambone Award. Read more: |
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WASHINGTON—Increased demand for independent review organization services by self-funded health benefit plans likely will stimulate growth in the industry, sources familiar with the IRO market say. Read more: |
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First it was lasers, and now it's a computer application that has Lucasfilm Ltd. heading to court over alleged violations of its “Star Wars” trademarks. Read more: |
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CHICAGO—Just a single incident of sexual harassment, if severe enough, can violate federal civil rights law, says a federal appellate court in a decision Monday. Read more: |
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The Internet Age meets the World War II era in guidance from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel interpreting a law about permissible political involvement by federal employees. Read more: |
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Catastrophe modelers have capitalized on one of the few positive things to come from Hurricane Katrina—a wealth of claims data and other information they are using to improve their products and help insurers and risk managers mitigate windstorm... Read more: |
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Facebook Inc. CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg is throwing the “book” at an upstart online teacher community. Read more: |
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Five years ago in rural Alabama, I woke up and watched a nightmare take shape. Read more: |
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WASHINGTON—The recall of 500 million eggs has put some pending legislation on food safety in the spotlight. Read more: |
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WASHINGTON—The Obama administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision that permitted a “public nuisance” suit to proceed over greenhouse gas emitters' contributions to global warming. Read more: |
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SAN FRANCISCO—A United Parcel Service of America Inc. unit may have unlawfully discriminated against a deaf worker by failing to provide American Sign Language interpreters, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Read more: |
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FORT WAYNE, Ind.—K&K Insurance Group Inc., a division of Aon Underwriting Managers, said Friday that Todd Bixler will be the company's president and CEO. Read more: |
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(Bloomberg)—Insurance takeovers are headed for the biggest year since the peak of the last merger boom as financial-services firms from Bank of America Corp. to Aegon N.V. of the Netherlands jettison assets. Read more: |
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PFÄFFIKON, Switzerland—Glacier Reinsurance A.G. said Friday its existing portfolio will be placed immediately into an orderly runoff, and the company will no longer write or accept new business. Read more: |
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SAN FRANCISCO—California workers compensation insurers’ combined ratios climbed during 2009 to the highest level since 2001, while average claims costs continued increasing, according to a quarterly report on insurer experience released... Read more: |