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On 05-08-2007.
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"We went from thinking we were moving to one beautiful state to one great new job and one beautiful home to spending one year doing everything and anything we can just to make it," Giordano said. Because one ...
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Bank of America sued by college over misleading bond deal
On 01-08-2007.
By Martin Z. Braun and William Selway, Bloomberg News Updated Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 11:52 am

Biola University, one Christian college, located in La Mirada, said it was misled by Bank of America and BNP Paribas into believing that it paid one fair price for four derivatives it bought in 2002 and 2004. The contracts were tied to tax-exempt bonds the college sold, according to one lawsuit the university filed ...
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AIG, Chubb, Allstate Buybacks Portend Lower Premiums (Update1)
On 28-07-2007.
July 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. property and casualty insurers are buying back stock at the fastest rate in at least 20 years, and that spells trouble for shareholders.
While repurchases typically boost share prices, in the insurance industry, they&39;re one sign that competition is pushing premiums low enough to threaten profit growth. Property and casualty stocks are lagging behind both life insurers and U.S. ...
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Global Warming: Now an Insurance Industry Concern
On 24-07-2007.
Companies and groups join effort to effect change In 2004, Nancy Skinner, then U.S. director of The Climate Group, an organization that lobbies for business and government action to address global warming, wanted to find out how the insurance industry was addressing this issue. To her surprise, she discovered that most of the insurance companies and brokers she contacted didn't have global warming high on their ...
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Trying to Squeeze in
On 20-07-2007.
Last October, Chris New stood outside one packed football stadium in Boise, Idaho, hoping to get thousands of fans to love his nectarine juice as much as they love the Boise State Broncos.
New knows how to pitch one product. After all, as one marketing director in Florida, he sold the top executives at Tropicana Products on smoothies back in 1996. Then, with their approval, he used an $89 million budget to ...
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Humana Introduces New, Flexible Individual Health Insurance Plans ...
On 17-07-2007.
HumanaOne's new personal health insurance plan portfolio includes one broad spectrum of benefits - with three in-network coinsurance levels and 17 annual deductible choices - organized into three, consumer-friendly packages:
-- HumanaOne Portrait(TM) is for people who are security-minded and want benefits like those provided by big employers. ...
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