In My Opinion: True cost of insurance, providing benefits to public employees & self-interests
When you look at the current political situation with an open attitude, it’s difficult to understand how insurance companies continue to go their merry way, totally ignoring the uproar over their policies. You’d think they’re openly inviting government intervention.
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Insult to injury: Waterlogged lack flood insurance
CLINTON – As homeowners along one section of Main Street wrung themselves out yesterday from the aftermath of tremendous flooding, their insurance agents gave them another wet blanket of bad news on top of ruined furniture and soggy carpets.
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Huge Dai-ichi I.P.O. Could Lift Japanese Market
If things go according to plan, the Japanese insurance group Dai-Ichi Mutual Life would on April 1 stage the world’s largest stock market debut since Visa’s listing two years ago, raising around $12 billion, The New York Times’s Bettina Wassener reports.
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HAVE YOUR SAY: ‘Fuel prices forcing us to sell our family car’
AS PETROL prices rocket to record levels, a Seaton couple this week revealed that they are being forced to sell one of their family cars.
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Claims pour in to insurance firms
Several days of high winds and heavy rains within a three-week period have produced record numbers of claims at local agencies. But while the 8 to 10 inches of rain that fell last weekend flooded basements and leaked through roofs across the region, insurance agencies say it was the windstorm that blew an unprecedented number of claims into their offices.
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