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Patent Claims Cause Firms to Drop Business Lines: Study
Patent demands are taking a big toll on technology companies, with results that range from forcing companies to tweak their products to exiting their business altogether, according to a study from ...
NAIC CEO Nelson Explains Affordable Care Vote, Warns Feds ‘Stay In Your Lane’
Spending roughly a dozen years in the U.S. Senate taught the new CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) how to play defense, he revealed during an industry meeting last ...
Florida Lawmakers Approve Medical Malpractice Reform
In a victory for medical malpractice insurers and physicians, Florida lawmakers have approved a series of tort reforms that among other things will require expert witnesses testifying against ...
Lessons of Reinhart-Rogoff: Lawrence Summers
The economics commentariat and no small part of the political debate in recent weeks has been consumed with the controversy surrounding the work of my Harvard colleagues (and friends) Carmen Reinhart ...
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 ...