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UBS on Property Casualty Insurance: Q4 Earnings Wrap - Stocks Underperform on Weak 2012 Earnings Outlook
StreetInsider
| UBS on Property Casualty Insurance: Q4 Earnings Wrap - Week 2 | Analyst, Brian Meredith, said, "So far, 10 of 13 companies have reported upside earnings surprises. However, more than half of the P/C stocks underperformed on the day of the earnings ...
BB&T to buy insurance brokerage Crump Group for $570M
The Business Review
Orlando Business Journal by Catherine Carlock, Special Reports/Publications Writer Date: Friday, February 3, 2012, 4:19pm EST Related: , File photo | BB&T Corp. plans to buy the life insurance and property and casualty insurance divisions of Crump Gr...
BB&T to acquire insurance brokerage Crump Group for $570M
The Business Review
The Business Journal by Catherine Carlock, Special Reports/Publications Writer Date: Friday, February 3, 2012, 10:36am EST Related: , File photo | BB&T Corp. plans to acquire the life insurance and property and casualty insurance divisions of Crump G...
Three States to Require Insurers to Disclose Climate-Change Response Plans
The New York Times
| Insurance commissioners in California, New York and Washington State will require that companies disclose how they intend to respond to the risks their businesses and customers face from increasingly severe storms and wildfires, rising sea levels a...
Private health insurance: the essentials
The Daily Mail
| Private medical insurance is seen as essential by many but it is a luxury? We explore the facts. | Private medical policies provide cover for the costs of private medical treatment for curable, short-term medical conditions. | Essentially, medical ...
Foundation Financial Group buys B&R Insurance
The Business Review
Jacksonville Business Journal by Michael Clinton, Web Producer Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 2:44pm EST Related: , Related News Michael Clinton Web Producer - Jacksonville Business Journal  |   |  | Foundation Financial Groupâ€...
Insurance brokerage consolidates regional offices
The Business Review
Wells Fargo Insurance Services Inc. names new local director, signs lease | Sacramento Business Journal by Kelly Johnson, Staff Writer and Social-Media Strategist and Kathy Robertson, Senior Staff Writer Date: Friday, January 27, 2012, 3:00am PST Rel...
Disasters likely to cause hike in insurance rates
Gulf News
| New York: US businesses will probably pay more this year for property coverage after insurers took losses from natural disasters and investment income declined, Marsh and McLennan Companies' insurance brokerage said. | Half of US clients surve...
Westscott brings experience to insurance advocate
Palm Beach Post
| TALLAHASSEE — Cracking down on automobile insurance fraud and strengthening the property insurance market will help consumers in the long run and be at the top of her priority list, the state's newest insurance consumer advocate said Thursday...
Think twice about costly credit-card insurance, monitoring services
Seattle Times
| Maybe you ran up your credit cards being a little overgenerous during the holidays. Or perhaps you've been carrying a balance for years but haven't been able to pay it off. | Does it make sense to buy insurance in case you're unable to make your pa...
Austin insurance agency bought by SWBC
The Business Review
Austin Business Journal by James Aldridge, Web Editor Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 9:17am CST Related: , , , | SWBC Chairman Charlie Amato says his company's property and casualty insurance brokerage subsidiary is expanding to Austin. Related N...
Rizek settles fire insurance claim for $500,000
Buffalo News
| NORTH TONAWANDA — For Muwafek S. “Moe” Rizek, happiness isn’t beating your insurance company out of half a million bucks. | Rizek said Tuesday, “The point is, the little guy always loses when he goes against these insurance companies.” ...
Store owner, acquitted of arson, takes fight to insurer
Buffalo News
| LOCKPORT—North Tonawanda City Attorney Shawn P. Nickerson came to State Supreme Court this week to try to make sure a convenience store owner wins enough money from his insurance company to fix up his store, which was damaged in a fire. | Nickers...
Congress cuts mortgage insurance write-off, adds to homebuyer fees
The Charlotte Observer
| Though its demise drew little attention because of the partisan year-end brawl over the payroll-tax cut extension in Congress, a key mortgage financing benefit disappeared at the end of December: The ability of large numbers of homebuyers and owner...
Insurers nervous over bad 2012 weather signs
Gulf News
| Boston: Damaging hailstorms in Australia. Unprecedented tornadoes in the southeastern United States. Constant windstorms in northern Europe. Sound familiar? | This year is starting a lot like last year in terms of unexpectedly severe weather, to th...
Plenty of options but no consensus on car insurance reform
The Miami Herald
| TALLAHASSEE -- What happens after you get into a car accident, and who pays the bills, could be changing. | State lawmakers are wrestling with ways to reform the state’s no-fault auto insurance law. The law requires drivers carry $10,000 wor...
Sports
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic smiles during a press conference after receiving the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards in London, Monday Feb. 6, 2012.
(photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)
Novak Djokovic targeting 'Golden Slam'
The Independent
| Djokovic was crowned at a glittering ceremony in London last night just a week after retaining his Australian Open title, his fourth major in five attempts. | Victory at the French Open would make him only the third man to hold all four grand slams at the same time but he is looking beyond that to become the first ever to win every major and the ...
Business
Toyota - Automaker
(photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Toyota raises annual profit forecast, eyes on recovery
The Times Of India
TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp raised its full-year profit forecast by more than a third as it cuts costs, trims spending and expects Japanese government schemes to boost sales, though the guidance was still some way below analysts' expectations. | Japan's No.1 automaker now expects operating profit - earnings from its core operations - for the year to e...



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