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Study Finds Higher Death Rate When Doctor Says Yes, but Insurer Says No
University of North Carolina researchers found patients who were denied or delayed insurance approval for bariatric surgery, despite being cleared by their medical team, had a mortality rate three ...
Supreme Court to Hear Halliburton Securities Class Action
The U.S. Supreme Court, which in recent years has ruled for business in a string of high-profile cases, agreed on Friday to hear a case that could herald a dramatic decline in securities class action ...
European Insurers Relieved By Less Burdensome Solvency II
European insurers breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday that a deal on new capital requirements was less burdensome than initially feared, ending an uncertainty which has been hanging over the sector ...
Lenders Miss Out on Supreme Court Showdown; New Jersey ‘Disparate Impact’ Case Settles
The settlement of a New Jersey housing-bias lawsuit scuttles a U.S. Supreme Court showdown that might have shielded lenders from discrimination suits pressed by the Obama administration. The Supreme ...
House Passes Bill Requiring Reporting by Asbestos Victims’ Trusts
Honeywell International Inc., whose political action committee donates more money than any other corporate PAC, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which spends more to lobby Congress than anyone else, ...EQECAT Puts Insured Typhoon Losses Below $100M
Insured losses from Typhoon Haiyan won't surpass $100 million, catastrophe modeling firm EQECAT predicted Tuesday. Noting that storm surge and the strong winds sustained by Haiyan as it moved across ...
Thus Far, 2013 Is Seventh Hottest Year, More Warming Expected: WMO
This year is the seventh warmest since records began in 1850 with a trend to weather extremes and the impact of storms such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines aggravated by rising sea levels, the ...
Judge Rakoff Hits Failure of U.S. to Prosecute Wall Street Executives for Fraud
The federal judge who oversaw the recent civil fraud trial against Bank of America Corp. criticized the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday for failing to prosecute high-level executives over the ...