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AIG to Merge Japanese Units Fuji Fire, AIU
American International Group Inc., the insurer that repaid a U.S. government bailout last year, announced plans to merge two insurance units in Japan. AIU Insurance Co. and Fuji Fire & Marine ...
MetLife Nears Systemic Financial Institution Risk Tag
MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. life insurer, was moved to the last stage of a regulatory review that may impose extra Federal Reserve oversight. The Financial Stability Oversight Council, a group of ...
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Apple Controversy Lays Bare Complex Irish Tax Web: Reuters Report
Occupying a single floor of a three-story building in a suburban Dublin office park, Western Union's offices are notably modest for the international headquarters of the world's largest money ...
Survivors Of Quebec Train Crash To File Class Action Suit
Two residents of the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic, where a runaway train derailed and exploded into a wall of fire that killed 50 people, have launched a class action lawsuit to win compensation for ...
Anadarko To Face Narrowed Gulf Spill Shareholder Lawsuit
A federal judge ordered Anadarko Petroleum Corp, which owned part of the blown out well at the center of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, to face a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding shareholders, ...
India’s Flood Missing At 5,748 In Worst Disaster Since Tsunami
Indian authorities said more than 5,000 people are missing following last month's flash floods in the north in what could be the country's worst natural disaster since the Indian Ocean tsunami almost ...
Google & Microsoft: Enemies In Court, Frenemies In Congress
Even as they battle in courts over smartphone and video technology, Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. have discovered a common foe: patent owners who try to sue their customers or go after an entire ...
NY Judge To Rule If WTC Developer Can Seek Damages Beyond Insurance Payments From Airlines
A federal judge is days away from deciding if New York developer Larry Silverstein can recover as much as $3.5 billion from airlines for damages to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, on top of ...