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Bird Flu Worries Rise with Budget Cuts
The World Health Organization's ability to police the new strain of bird flu that has killed 27 people in China is being jeopardized by budget cuts, according to a top U.S. official. "One of the ...
Berkshire Profit Rises 51%, Shares Hit Record High
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Friday said quarterly profit rose nearly 51 percent on a solid performance in insurance and by many of its other businesses, as well as gains from ...
How Imports Support U.S. Jobs Including Insurance
A new report credits imports with supporting 16 million U.S. jobs in a bid by business groups to improve the image of the ugly brother of trade. While politicians from President Barack Obama on down ...
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 ...AIG Restructuring Successful, P/C Subs Now A-Plus: S&P
The restructuring that reshaped American International Group over the past two years has been successful in the opinion of analysts for Standard & Poor's, who boosted the rating for AIG's the ...
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 ...