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Two Vermont Towns to Decide on Abandoned Asbestos Mine
Voters in Lowell and Eden are going to vote on whether to request that an abandoned asbestos mine be declared a federal Superfund hazardous waste site so it can be cleaned up and eventually redeveloped as a biomass power plant. … View full post on Insurance Journal » News
U.S. Advisers Explain Call to Censor Bird Flu Research
TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) — Concerns that research about a genetically mutated form of bird flu could escape from labs or fall into the hands of bioterrorists led U.S. scientific advisers to ask two prominent journals to withhold key deta… View full post on Yahoo! Health News
Measures Taken To Earthquake-Proof Alaskan Hospital
For decades, the people who oversaw Fairbanks Memorial Hospital shared a comforting thought about the building—even if a powerful earthquake struck, they were confident it would remain standing. But in the past few years, the Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation’s … View full post on Insurance Journal » News
EU experts to assess health risk of new animal disease
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union's food safety watchdog said on Tuesday it has been asked to assess the health risks posed by a new virus that has infected animals in Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. The Schmallenb… View full post on Yahoo! Health News
Bad Credit Can Cost You a Job.
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Brazilian Blowout Maker Agrees To Labeling Changes
The maker of a popular line of hair-straightening products has agreed to alert consumers that two of its formulations emit formaldehyde gas, a possible carcinogen, California’s attorney general announced Monday. The labeling changes are designed to settle a lawsuit the … View full post on Insurance Journal » News
U.S. panel defends call to censor bird flu studies
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A potentially deadlier form of the bird flu virus poses one of the gravest known threats to humans and justifies an unprecedented call to censor the research that produced it, a top U.S. biosecurity official said on Tuesday. Th… View full post on Yahoo! Health News
In January, a Calm Fell on the Markets
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Storm Cost Seattle $1.35 Million
The Seattle Transportation Department says the mid-January storm cost the city of Seattle $1.35 million—more than half of its annual snow budget of $2.2 million. KOMO reported transportation officials briefed the city council last week on expenses that included more … View full post on Insurance Journal » News
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- Trucker’s Widow Settles Mississippi Wrongful Death Claim with Insurer
- The Hartford’s AARP Program Looking for Agents
- Midwest Farmers Urged to Buy Crop Insurance Due to Dry Weather
- Wisconsin Business Owner Accused of Arson, Murder-for-Hire
- West Virginia Seeks Input on Proposed Business Court
- U.S. Drops Major Anti-Bribery Prosecution
- U.S. Firms Seek Clarity on Anti-Bribery Law
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- Insurance Agents Charged In $100 Million Fraud SchemeThe Manhattan United States Attorney and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have charged three insurance agents with a $100 million fraud scheme involving stranger-owned life insurance or STOLI. Typically, people buying a life insurance policy have some relationship to the person being insured. In contrast, with STOLI arrangements, a ... […]
- Home Insurers Avoid Catastrophe Risk, Stockpile CashThe Consumer Federation of America is attacking home insurers for holding too much capital and avoiding business in risk-prone regions, charging that property-casualty companies have "hollowed out" catastrophe coverage. In response, the head of the major industry trade group charged that CFA is dead wrong and is ignorant of ... […]
- Insurance Coverage Might Steer Women To Costlier — But More Effective — Birth ControlIn the heated debate over to what extent religiously affiliated employers should be required to provide free contraception for workers, no one has talked much about what methods are available to women who want to prevent pregnancy and how their choices might change if cost were removed from the equation. ... […]
- Rising costs, health care reform law create more interest in self-fundingAs health care costs continue to climb, many midsize employers are turning to self-funding as a cost-effective way to provide health benefits to their employees. Fifty-eight percent of employers with 200 to 999 employees self-funded their health care programs in 2010, up from 44% in 1999, according to the ... […]
- States strike at ‘Obamacare,’ seek to exempt insurers, employers from birth-control coverageBOISE, Idaho — Republican lawmakers in a handful of states are opening another front in the war against President Obama’s health care overhaul, seizing on the hot-button issue of birth control with bills that would allow insurance companies to ignore new federal rules requiring them to cover contraception. Measures ... […]
- Insurance Agents Charged In $100 Million Fraud Scheme
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- Insurance Agents Charged In $100 Million Fraud Scheme
- Home Insurers Avoid Catastrophe Risk, Stockpile Cash
- Insurance Coverage Might Steer Women To Costlier — But More Effective — Birth Control
- Rising costs, health care reform law create more interest in self-funding
- States strike at ‘Obamacare,’ seek to exempt insurers, employers from birth-control coverage
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