$43.5 billion
Total insurance revenues of the nation’s bank holding companies in 2006, a slight drop from 2005, according to Michael White Associates and the American Bankers Insurance Association.
1,000
The number of jobs that could be lost if the proposed merger of Pennsylvania’s two largest health insurance companies — Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc. — is approved, according to Highmark CEO Dr. Kenneth Melani. The combined company would control more than half of the market.
$22.5 million
The total compensation package in 2006 for Martin J. Sullivan, who has been running insurance giant American International Group Inc. since the departure of long-time chief executive Maurice Greenberg, according to The Associated Press. It included a salary of $1 million.



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