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National
Urged on by President Barack Obama, Democratic leaders in the House hustled Thursday to round up support for a sweeping healthcare overhaul...
U.S. companies of all sizes would get to apply losses in 2008 or 2009 to prior income over five years to receive tax refunds under a bill...
Nanoparticles can damage the DNA of cells from a distance, even without crossing the cellular barriers that protect certain parts of the...
American International Group may be a shadow of its former self but for the second straight quarter it has posted a profit. AIG reported net...
Tony Campisi and Bill Kronenberg used to tease each other about merging their two Pennsylvania brokerage organizations. Just about a year...
Fitch Ratings said Thursday it may cut its ratings on Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc on concerns about the effect its planned...
Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, reported a third qarter profit Wednesday, the improvement from a...
Military insurance company USAA is expanding its customer base by nearly 35 million prospects by opening up eligibility for its products to...
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East
The family of a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee sought Wednesday to sue the state for $150 million, saying officials...
No-fault payments for medical claims by auto accident victims in New York have seen a dramatic increase over the last several years, one...
A Baltimore brother and sister have been awarded $2.5 million in a lead paint case. Jurors decided Tuesday in favor of 20-year-old Dontae...
Delaware's four-month campaign against speeding produced 6,322 citations. The Office of Highway Safety says that's an increase of nearly...
A former employee of a Cape Cod country club who said she was laid off because of her age has been awarded nearly $1 million by the...
Midwest
Cincinnati, Ohio-based American Empire Surplus Lines Insurance Company, a member of the Great American Insurance Group, has launched an...
The 2009 Ohio Diversity and Leadership Conference announced recently that Gale King, executive vice president and chief human resources...
Southeast
The Kentucky Derby Museum will reopen next year after renovations to fix flooding damage are made to the tourist attraction showcasing the...
Workers' compensation provider Key Risk has named Anne Myers as senior vice president, regional director for the Carolinas. She will report...
Texas / South Central
Mindful that the suburban West Bank of New Orleans has regained its pre-Hurricane Katrina population and is primed for growth, the Army...
The Central Oklahoma Chapter of the CPCU Society presented its Insurance Industry Service Award to Larry W. Fitch at the recent Insurance...
West
State Farm Fire and Casualty Company is going to have to pay the defense costs of the two former agents the insurance company fired, and...
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner yesterday announced that Byron Andres Prado, 21, of Northridge was convicted November 2 of...
Two more fires burned businesses early Thursday in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood. Fire Department spokeswoman Dana Vander Houwen says a...
NAS Insurance Services has promoted Genevieve Alexander to Senior Underwriter. Ms. Alexander started at NAS six years ago as an underwriting...
Riverside-based Patrion Insurance has named Dennis Silva of Murrieta as Senior Sales Executive. Prior to joining Patrion Insurance, Silva...
International
A U.N. climate treaty may need an extra year beyond the December deadline to agree on details, delegates at U.N. talks said on Thursday,...
According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide and the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Hurricane Ida made landfall in eastern...
Willis Group Holdings announced plans to expand its successful Willis Commercial Network business model for serving independent brokers from...
Aon Trade Credit, the UK's largest credit insurance broker, has appointed Elizabeth Jenkin as sector leader for pulp and paper products in...
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