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Safeguard your marriage - invest in divorce insurance today
The Examiner
| Ten years ago, when I was first starting to work with divorcing people, I had an idea that I thought would make divorce just a little bit devastating - at least on a couple's bank account. The idea was part of my "divorce preparedness plan" and it was to have what I called, "marital insurance." | ...
A man walks over a damaged road in Paiapoi, 20 kilometers (13 miles) south of Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 after the city was hit by an earthquake Saturday, Sept. 4. Christchurch  was struck by a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines and also ripped a new 11-foot (3.5 meter) wide fault line in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. At least 500 buildings, including 90 downtown properties, have been designated as destroyed in the quake near the South Island city of 400,000 people. But most other buildings sustained only minor damage.
(photo: AP / Rob Griffith)
After the earthquake... wind and rainstorms
NZ Herald
Updated 7:32 AM Monday Sep 6, 2010 Share Email Print | Are you in Canterbury? | Nature was wreaking more havoc on shattered Cantabrians early today as savage winds battered a province only just beginning to pick itself up after Saturday's devastating earthquake. | And with costs from the magnitude 7...
Health insurance law at stake in R.I. governor's race
The Providence Journal
| -->-->-->--> | Are you wondering how the federal health-care overhaul will affect you here in Rhode Island? To a large degree, the answer depends on who becomes the next governor. | The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act gives states consid...
Steep rate hikes on way for individual health insurance
Seattle Times
| Whopping rate increases are coming soon for many people with individual health-insurance policies. | Most insurers offering individual policies in the state have asked for and been granted rate increases, effective Oct. 1, according to the state's ...
Texas insurers defend role of pharmacy benefit managers
The Business Review
Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | | | reCAPTCHA™ | The Texas Association of Health Plans, which ...
Insurance report submitted
The Himalayan
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Reform to cloud hospital, insurer relations: Seehausen
The Business Review
Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | | | reCAPTCHA™ | found itself in a very public battle in recen...
Insurance analysts say man is too fat to work, government disagrees
Newsvine
| A morbidly obese father has been diagnosed as too fat to work by doctors who fear his weight may cause him to fall over and crush his colleagues. | Barry Fowers, 51, who weighs a life-threatening 30 stone [420 pounds], worked until October last yea...
Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, July 15, 2009 in New York
AP / Yanina Manolova
Briefing.com: Stock Market Update - 14:30 ET
Insurance Newsnet
| Sep 03, 2010 (Briefing.com via COMTEX) -- Stock Market Update | Updated: 03-Sep-10 | The market at 14:30 ET | Dow: +110.31... | Nasdaq: +29.90... S&P: +13.03... | NYSE Vol: 5...
President Barack Obama picks up four-year-old Barack Anthony Stroud after he spoke about health care reform at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Thursday, March 25, 2010.
AP / Charles Dharapak
Children Eligible For Medicaid And CHIP Still Uninsured
redOrbit
| According to a new report, about five million uninsured children in the U.S. were eligible for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but were not enrolled in...
A high school student passes by a stock indicator in Tokyo Friday, Jan. 12, 2007. Japanese stocks rose Friday, helped by another record close on Wall Street and the dollar's rise above 120 yen, a boon to the nation's key export sector. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 218.84 pints, or 1.30 percent, to finish the day's trading at 17,057.01 points on the Tokyo Stock Exc
AP / Koji Sasahara
Briefing.com: Stock Market Update - 09:02 ET
Insurance Newsnet
| Sep 03, 2010 (Briefing.com via COMTEX) -- Stock Market Update | Updated: 03-Sep-10 | The market at 09:02 ET | Dow: ... | Nasdaq: ... S&P: ... | NYSE Vol: .. Adv: .. Dec: | Na...
The Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee delivering the inaugural address at the International Seminar on Transfer Pricing, in New Delhi on February 17, 2010.
PIB of India
Pranab: broadbase insurance cover
The Hindu
| Special Correspondent | - PHOTO: PAUL NORONHA | FINANCIAL INCLUSION:Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee cutting the cake on the 54th anniversary of LIC in Mumbai on Wednesday...
Insurance weakens in workplace [The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.]
Insurance Newsnet
| Sept. 06--Employer-based health insurance remains "the leading source of health insurance" in the U.S., covering about 159 million nonelderly people, according to a 2009 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educationa...
Area woman enjoys having two jobs [American News, Aberdeen, S.D.]
Insurance Newsnet
| Sept. 06--College scholarships left Laura Marsh without a stack of loans to pay back after she graduated in December from Northern State University, but the Aberdeen woman still works two jobs to pay the bills. | Marsh, 23, majored in art and now w...
BRIEF: The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky., column [The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky.]
Insurance Newsnet
| Sept. 05--Summit -- An accident in front of the Kyova Mall on U.S. 60 Sunday night sent two to the hospital by Health Net helicopter. | Disptachers said the accident happened around 6:45 p.m. when one car rear-ended the other. Names or conditions o...
Workers' comp progress gets a thorough review [Charleston Daily Mail, W.Va.]
Insurance Newsnet
| Sept. 06--CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When a 2.9 percent decrease in workers' compensation insurance rates takes effect Nov. 1, overall rates will have declined 43.7 percent since the state system was privatized in 2006, state Insurance Commissioner Jane ...
Sports
This is a May 31, 2008, file photo showing Russia's Maria Sharapova returning the ball to Italy's Karin Knapp during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros stadium in Paris
(photo: AP / David Vincent, File)
Sharapova faulty at service line again at U.S. Open
The Guardian
By Larry Fine NEW YORK, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Maria Sharapova said it was a grand slam year of missed opportunities after service woes haunted the former world number one at the U.S. Open Monday. Sharapova committed 36 unforced errors, including nine double faults in falling 6-3 6-4 in the fourth round to top seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, last y...
Business
In 2009, Canary Wharf is surrounded by towers. Canary Wharf tenants include major banks, such as Barclays,
(photo: Creative Commons / WiNG)
Diamond to be new head of Barclays
London Evening Standard
Multi-millionaire banker Bob Diamond will be named as the next chief executive of banking group Barclays. | Mr Diamond, who is estimated to be worth £95 million, will take over from John Varley after the incumbent steps down next year, the Press Association understands. | The 59-year-old American's appointment is expected to be made on Tuesday as p...



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