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Buffett Highlights from Berkshire Annual Meeting
More than 35,000 people descended on Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday for the annual shareholder meeting of Warren Buffett's ice cream-to-insurance conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Following are ...
Excess Testing, Not Medical Malpractice Payouts, Driving Up Health Costs: Study
Efforts to lower health care costs in the United States have focused at times on demands to reform the medical malpractice system, with some researchers asserting that large, headline-grabbing and ...
Florida OKs Cap on Physician-Dispensed Drugs for Workers’ Comp
After years of struggling to rein in the cost of physician-dispensed drugs, Florida workers' compensation insurers finally have a compromise with physicians and drug companies that is projected to ...
End of Hard Copy? Three States Now Permit Posting Policies Online
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill that allows a property/casualty insurer to post policies and endorsements online and send a link via email to policyholders in lieu of providing a hard copy. ...Obama to Name Froman as U.S. Trade Representative
President Barack Obama on Thursday will name top international economic affairs adviser Mike Froman as his choice to be U.S. trade representative, a White House official said, handing the job to a ...
Crop Insurance Subsidies Should Be Reduced: Economist
U.S. farmers have collected a record $17 billion in crop insurance payments on drought-hit 2012 crops but the system could have spent half as much and still saved growers from ruinous losses, an ...
European Central Bank Cuts Main Interest Rate
The European Central Bank cut interest rates for the first time in 10 months on Thursday, driven to act by an economy wallowing in recession and freed to do so by sharply falling inflation. The ECB ...
EU Weighs Trade Action to Improve Safety After Bangladesh Factory Tragedy
The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, in order to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after a ...