http://www.googlealert.com/ A Google Alert feed http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1195936491.114.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fbusiness%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1685529%2C00.htmlWhen bonds lose their value fast, the insurer has to pay out claims that help investors recover some losses. Swiss Re also said it has written down the ...2007-11-24T20:34:51+00:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1195417134.112.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fworld%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1685198%2C00.htmlMcGaw's insurer, Geico, left a check for $18500 and towed the car away. A vehicle history report listing the Mini as a total loss names the insurer as the ...2007-11-18T20:18:54+00:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1195243989.1.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C40522-3%2C00.htmlThe insurer of last resort--the most exposed to a tidal wave of ... If Insurer A insured a risk, he then typically "reinsured" all or part of it with ...2007-11-16T20:13:09+00:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1194464976.2.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fnation%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1680441%2C00.htmlHe anticipates that the government will make changes to the drug benefit in future years to reduce the number of people "pingponging" from insurer to ...2007-11-07T19:49:36+00:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1189213529.1.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C152664%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereAPPEALS PROCESS Patients can ask the insurer for a timely internal review of a decision, and then appeal for an external, independent review by doctors. ...2007-09-08T02:05:29+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1188607700.2.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F1%2C9171%2C944560-3%2C00.htmlSo have Lazard Frères, the Wall Street investment-banking firm; John Hancock, the insurer; and Southdown Inc., the Houston-based conglomerate. ...2007-09-01T01:48:20+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1188174834.3.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C949615%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe defendant, or his insurer, ends up paying relatively modest amounts if, as often happens, the plaintiff dies early. And such settlements sound so ...2007-08-27T01:33:54+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1187828610.1.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fbusiness%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1654402%2C00.htmlMore than two years ago, a federal judge in Virginia ruled in a similar case filed by insurer Geico Inc., ruling that Google's advertising practices were ...2007-08-23T01:23:30+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1186876416.1.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C140142%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-delRubin placed a call to Duke hepatologist James Trotter, explaining that he had a seriously ill transplant candidate and that he understood that the insurer, ...2007-08-12T00:53:36+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1186789887.6.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C480288%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereAt least one insurer is trying to make it easier for older overweight Americans to get life insurance. The Hartford Financial Services Group recently ...2007-08-11T00:51:27+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1186357074.8.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C454538%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphere... the amount he received for performing favors for the company, including asking questions in the Diet to promote one of the insurer's projects. ADOPTED. ...2007-08-06T00:37:54+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1185696970.8.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C980341%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereIn 1988 the firm and its insurer paid $3 million to settle a conflict charge stemming from the failure of FirstSouth Savings and Loan. ...2007-07-29T09:16:10+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1185350697.7.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C189763%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphere--Give your doctor--and your insurer--a call. Medical expenses that exceed 7.5% of adjusted gross income are tax deductible, so if you're near the threshold ...2007-07-25T09:04:57+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1185004493.9.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1004973%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe CEO of SCPIE Holdings, California's second largest malpractice insurer, Zuk launched an ambitious plan in 1996 to expand into new states like Texas and ...2007-07-21T08:54:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1184744835.3.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1004694%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereDepending on what's there, an insurer may want to charge a higher rate or ... Before signing up with any insurer, see whether its customers lodge a lot of ...2007-07-18T08:47:15+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1184225457.3.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1004970%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereSosenko and his partners discovered that their insurer was not leaving Illinois entirely ... When the doctors started looking for an insurer to replace APC, ...2007-07-12T08:30:57+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1184138884.12.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C552133%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphere... some senior citizens might have to pay a higher premium, depending on what part of the country they live in or the insurer they use. ...2007-07-11T08:28:04+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1183879195.5.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C877286%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe lucky recipients are policyholders of State Farm Mutual, the nation's largest auto insurer, which revealed this week a $112.2 million underwriting ...2007-07-08T08:19:55+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1183879195.17.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C975590%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereUnder the other, Vermont would adopt a Canadian-style health-care program in which the state acts as its own insurer. Sphere Related Blogs & Articles ...2007-07-08T08:19:55+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1183879195.28.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1622592%2C00.html... of a seizure when she's denied emergency-room access, the husband and father with kidney cancer whose insurer won't pay for a bone-marrow transplant). ...2007-07-08T08:19:55+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1183792618.17.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C174188%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereAn insurer's financial strength also matters; check the ratings from services such as Moody's or A.M. Best. One big risk in annuities is actuarial. ...2007-07-07T08:16:58+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1183532948.3.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C471181%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereSHOP AROUND Hurricane deductibles vary, not just by state but by county, your house's distance from the coast, the strength of the storm and the insurer. ...2007-07-04T08:09:08+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1183359846.5.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fhealth%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1638964%2C00.htmlbased Unum Group, the nation's largest disability insurer. "There's a trend to become more actively engaged and more focused in helping people." ...2007-07-02T08:04:06+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1183013610.4.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1635841%2C00.htmlThe concept, says Joe Lawson, one of the writers who conceived it, was that signing up with the insurer online was so easy "even a caveman" could do it. ...2007-06-28T07:53:30+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1183013610.12.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C999051%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereCost: $500 to $725, little of which your insurer is likely to reimburse. PET SCAN A lot of patients are taking it upon themselves to order their own ...2007-06-28T07:53:30+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1183013610.9.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C901031222-561433%2C00.htmlFrance finally agreed on a $760 million settlement with U.S. prosecutors over the allegedly illegal purchase of failed insurer Executive Life by Crédit ...2007-06-28T07:53:30+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1182667398.4.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C925557%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-delIn 1981, losses on medical coverage totaled $290 million at the Prudential Insurance Company of America, the country's largest private health insurer, ...2007-06-24T07:43:18+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1182667398.11.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1607235-1%2C00.htmlGrisly parkour injuries--from broken face bones to a bruised liver--have been reported to United Educators Insurance, a major insurer of colleges, ...2007-06-24T07:43:18+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1182494220.8.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C364331%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphere2 insurer, Ping An, for $600 million. INDICATORS Chocolate Prices Get Hot Cocoa prices hit 17-year highs of $2317 a ton as rebel forces in the Ivory Coast ...2007-06-22T07:37:00+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1182234549.5.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fnation%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1631550%2C00.htmlThe state is seeking compensatory and punitive damages against the Bloomington, Ill.-based insurer for an alleged breach of contract. ...2007-06-19T07:29:09+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1182061445.1.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C973532%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereTwo weeks ago, in what was the biggest failure to date, New Jersey state authorities took over Mutual Benefit Life, the country's 18th largest life insurer, ...2007-06-17T07:24:05+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1181801776.5.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C574856%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereMeanwhile, German insurer Gerling plans cuts of up to 50% in retirement plans for around 5000 of its own employees. The Bottom Line ...2007-06-14T07:16:16+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1181801776.17.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C978856%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe salary and transportation were paid for by the nation's largest nonprofit health insurer at a time when it was trying to stave off insolvency by ...2007-06-14T07:16:16+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1181801776.26.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fbusiness%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1626563%2C00.htmlHealth insurer Cigna Corp. is offering free copies of a video game that aims to help young cancer patients deal with their disease by visualizing the ...2007-06-14T07:16:16+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1181628668.23.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C725081%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereDAVID PROSSER, CEO of British insurer Legal & General, on the country's pensions crisis. The U.K.'s Pensions Commission claimed some 12 million people over ...2007-06-12T07:11:08+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1181628668.24.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C836986%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe primary P & I insurer was the Marine Office of America in New York City, a consortium that carried $2500000 on the vessel. Union also had an undisclosed ...2007-06-12T07:11:08+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1181542082.8.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C548956%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereIn the early 1990s, when the then-state-owned French bank acquired California insurer Executive Life, it allegedly did so in breach of U.S. law forbidding ...2007-06-11T07:08:02+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1181455495.18.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.time.com%2Fdetail.jsp%3Fkey%3D110149%26rc%3Dbu_neStarting Wednesday, Philadelphia-based health insurer Cigna Corp. will be sending free copies of the game to doctors to hand out to cancer patients who want ...2007-06-10T07:04:55+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1181282490.11.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C457352%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphere... alleging that Pinault in the early 1990s made just over $1 billion from an alleged fraud by Crédit Lyonnais involving a failing insurer, Executive Life, ...2007-06-08T07:01:30+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180936198.2.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C579025%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe bet is not a bad one: shares of China Life Insurance, the country's largest insurer, are up 64% since their Dec. 18 debut. Gold-mining company Fujian ...2007-06-04T06:49:58+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180936198.20.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C951825%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe largest slice of earnings, nearly 40%, came from Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies, the world's largest insurer of movie productions and the eighth ...2007-06-04T06:49:58+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180936198.6.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fsearchresults%2F%3Fsid%3D10E8C4BB1DCC%26relsort%3Dyes%26Ntk%3DWithBodyDate%26internalid%3Dendeca_dimension%26Ntx%3Dmode%2Bmatchallpartial%26N%3D4294967236%2B45%26Nty%3D1Health insurer Cigna Corp. is offering free copies of a video game that aims to help young cancer patients deal with their disease by visualizing the ...2007-06-04T06:49:58+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180936198.24.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fsearchresults%3FD%3DCancer%26sid%3D112E319AA9C2%26Ntt%3DCancer%26Ntk%3DWithBodyDate%26Ntx%3Dmode%2Bmatchallany%26N%3D45%26Nty%3D1...she's denied emergency-room access, the husband and father with kidney cancer whose insurer won't pay for a bone-marrow transplant). Together, they. ...2007-06-04T06:49:58+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180849618.7.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C331982%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe Stock Market's sickness made life insurance companies look decidedly mortal last week, as sliding share prices dragged the value of insurer assets ...2007-06-03T06:46:58+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180849618.16.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C920616%2C00.html%3Fpromoid%3DgooglepHe did indeed start getting checks from his insurer, Mutual of Omaha, but after a while a Mutual claims adjuster began harassing him as a fraud and ...2007-06-03T06:46:58+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180763042.12.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C923061%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphere... some $1.6 billion in cash and stock for Crum & Forster, the 18th largest U.S. property and casualty insurer. High-tech Xerox in the insurance business? ...2007-06-02T06:44:02+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180763042.17.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C802229%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphere... major US life-insurance companies are raising prices. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., world's biggest insurer, last week announced that premiums on all...2007-06-02T06:44:02+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180677585.5.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C591272%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereOther signs of overheating: shares of China Life Insurance, the country's largest insurer, are up 56% since their Dec. 18 debut, while gold-mining company ...2007-06-01T06:59:45+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180677585.23.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C969911%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereIF YOU CAN'T TRUST YOUR INSURER . . . There are ominous signs that the insurance industry may be facing a crisis that could rival the savings and loan ...2007-06-01T06:59:45+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180677585.24.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C995495%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe complaint says Marsh would sometimes promise business to one insurer but insist a competitor provide an inflated bid to create an illusion of ...2007-06-01T06:59:45+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180640402.8.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C868063%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereFor more than two decades, the Federal Housing Administration has been virtually the only insurer of home mortgage loans. Private institutions, recalling ...2007-05-31T20:40:02+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180640402.21.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C388908%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereJust when you think the apocalypse at Switzerland's largest life insurer, Swiss Life, must be complete, in swoops another horseman. ...2007-05-31T20:40:02+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180640402.23.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C731275%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereSimplicity wore a wry mask when the President wrote: "The Government is not an insurer of its citizens against the hazard of the elements. ...2007-05-31T20:40:02+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180553858.2.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C364348%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereHolger Dock, the chief executive of AP Pension, a small Danish insurer with 47000 clients, has a typical explanation: his company's problems stem from the ...2007-05-30T20:37:38+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180553858.24.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C968292%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe drought has also meant big trouble for Chubb, the 16th largest U.S. property and casualty insurer (assets: $9.2 billion). Reason: the Warren, N.J., ...2007-05-30T20:37:38+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180553858.28.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C895866%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereState Farm Mutual, biggest U.S. auto insurer, is willing to bet money on this sweeping proposition. Starting this week in California, it will use grades to ...2007-05-30T20:37:38+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180467293.1.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C152661%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereMy insurer agreed to reinstate my policy and pay for the biopsy, ... I believe the insurer used the condition as an excuse to reject my coverage. ...2007-05-29T20:34:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180467293.25.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C49406%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThen the real battle--Who would pay for this new class of drugs, you or your insurer?--could begin. Sphere Related Blogs & Articles ...2007-05-29T20:34:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180467293.31.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C911356%2C00.html%3Fpromoid%3DgooglepToday the Chicago-based Charles O. Finley & Co., Inc. is a leading insurer of physicians and collects some $40 million in premiums annually. ...2007-05-29T20:34:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180380713.4.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C471146%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereDeutsche last year unloaded 33.7 billion worth of stock, including its entire 7.2% stake in insurer Munich Re. Fiat insists that Deutsche still supports its ...2007-05-28T20:31:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180380713.8.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C962766%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-spherePlaying its role as the insurer of... ... The insurer had been counting on a lifeline from Congress. The House and Senate passed bills that would have ...2007-05-28T20:31:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180380713.12.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C925927%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereWhat insurer can pay annuities so disproportionate to the amount of premiums contributed? The New Deal's concept of Social Security was that it should be ...2007-05-28T20:31:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180380713.19.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C879484%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe Fireman's Fund a San Francisco-based insurer reports that about 20% of the fires in stores and other commercial establishments are believed to be set by ...2007-05-28T20:31:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180380713.23.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C991042%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereSo pull out your policy and see if your insurer is following suit. If not, play hardball. As when asking for a lower credit-card or mortgage rate, ...2007-05-28T20:31:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180380713.25.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C257069%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereNorway's largest bank, Den Norske Banke, agreed to buy the country's top insurer, Storebrand, for $1.96 billion in cash and stock. The deal should help fend ...2007-05-28T20:31:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180380713.29.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C909822%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereSince most suits are in fact intended to recover money from the parents' insurer, said the court, family harmony is not really threatened. ...2007-05-28T20:31:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180380713.32.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C905229%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereIf awards were paid by the state after hearings by an appointed board, the savings from irrelevant tests, useless records, costly litigation and insurer ...2007-05-28T20:31:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180380713.30.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C452821%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereYou'll be better off buying coverage through your home insurer. Industry experts say it's usually a better product. You can e-mail Jean, a MONEY columnist, ...2007-05-28T20:31:53+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180294178.13.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C879386%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereInsurance rates in Maryland have recently increased by 46.9%, and may soar another 48% if the state's major malpractice insurer is granted its request for a ...2007-05-27T20:29:38+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180294178.16.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C988584%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereIf not, find another insurer and get a letter stating that you're covered. It's one thing to willingly give your time, and quite another to be forced to ...2007-05-27T20:29:38+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180294178.17.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1584109%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-spherePing An Insurance, China's second largest life insurer, and oil-and-gas conglomerate PetroChina are also expected to issue more shares. ...2007-05-27T20:29:38+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180294178.27.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C992325%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereHis biggest deals, though, have been in insurance, starting with auto insurer Geico in 1996 and then the $22 billion acquisition of reinsurer General Re at ...2007-05-27T20:29:38+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180294178.28.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C366363%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereIn June, in an apparent power struggle with its former Indonesian partner, a local unit of Canadian insurer Manulife Financial Corp. was declared bankrupt ...2007-05-27T20:29:38+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180294178.9.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C178421%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereMajor California insurer Wellpoint recently rolled out its defined-contribution option to small businesses, half of which don't provide health insurance at ...2007-05-27T20:29:38+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180206287.12.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1000614%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereIf you are one of them, don't be surprised when your employer or health insurer introduces you to a specialist in the burgeoning field of disease management ...2007-05-26T20:04:47+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180206287.22.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C441149%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThis Italian insurer could have two added bounces: it's better capitalized than many rivals and its messy ownership structure has just been simplified. ...2007-05-26T20:04:47+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180206287.24.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C904247%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereMost of the argument focuses on the fact that accident victims must prove that another driver was at fault—and then collect from that driver's insurer. ...2007-05-26T20:04:47+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.2.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C973766%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereIf the French agree, customers of the failed insurer would not lose a cent. Sphere Related Blogs & Articles. |; AddThis Social Bookmark Button ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.3.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C593482%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThree of the firm's departed executives — former CEO Lars-Eric Petersson, former chief financial officer Ulf Sp ng and the former chief of life insurer ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.4.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C42332%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe TVA signed a new 10-year lease, even though more than half the 17-floor structure was being sublet by a health insurer whose lease was expiring in three ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.5.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C989744%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThird, understand that if you entered a Medicare HMO for the first time in the past 12 months, and your old Medigap insurer still offers the policy that you ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.6.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C727131%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereHe then gave the insurer notice of the injury and was allowed to recover on his ... Notice was then given to the insurer of his accidental death, and, ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.9.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1607235%2C00.htmlGrisly parkour injuries--from broken face bones to a bruised liver--have been reported to United Educators Insurance, a major insurer of colleges, ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.10.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C998720%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereConsider the deal that Gary Wendt got this year at the troubled insurer Conseco: $45 million to sign and a special bonus of as much as $50 million, ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.11.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C956330%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereEither the insurer or a medical facility will then encode the data onto the cards, using a personal computer and a special "read/write" laser device, ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.12.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1001965%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereBut no private insurer will cover Dalton, so his parents, Leonard Poe and Heather Dawes, held their income to $22900--33% over the poverty line--to qualify ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.13.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C992506%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereFRONT-SEAT DRIVER For the past 14 months, Progressive, the country's fifth-largest auto insurer, has been testing an optional pay-as-you-go system in Texas, ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.14.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1003270%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereLast year the MIIX Group, an insurer in 24 states, saw 26 claim payments of more than $1 million. This year it has faced an average of one new $1 ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.15.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C997785%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThat has not kept Lieberman from favoring a plan that would give patients a new right to sue their insurer-owned HMOs. But in general he has been eager to ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.16.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C997846%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereBoth companies, for instance, are continuing to deal with the recent revelation that State Farm, the nation's largest car insurer, alerted the government ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.18.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C95206%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereCost: $500 to $725, little of which your insurer is likely to reimburse. PET SCAN A lot of patients are taking it upon themselves to order their own ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.19.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1050536%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereThe Des Moines-based property and casualty insurer has now decided to adopt a new name. A contest is being held among the firm's 980 employees to suggest ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.20.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C962642%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereIn January, unable to find another insurer willing to charge a reasonable premium, he notified doctors who were participating in the Oculinum trials that ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.22.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C32767%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereHis biggest deals, though, have been in insurance, starting with auto insurer Geico in 1996 and then the $22 billion acquisition of reinsurer General Re at ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.23.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C978065%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphere... and whimpering because a majority of Americans -- the ones who favor a single, public-sector insurer -- would just as soon see it in hospice care. ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.24.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C565999%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereWall Street jumped at China's booming economy and made the IPO of China Life, the country's largest life insurer, the year's biggest debut at $3 billion. ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.25.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C945673%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphere... involving Ohio's workmen's compensation system, which, with assets of $1.5 billion, is the largest such program in which the state is the sole insurer. ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.27.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C975468%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereAfter 13 years of litigation, the nation's largest home and auto insurer agreed to pay 814 California women $157 million for discriminatory hiring practices ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.1.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C972766%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereAcross town, at the modern glass-and-steel headquarters tower of the insurer's parent company, First Executive, Garamendi's agents informed chief executive ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.17.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1000863%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereAnnuity income can vary widely, so it pays to get quotes from several insurers and scan websites like WebAnnuities.com An insurer's financial strength also ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.21.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C23311%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereNo sooner did she steel herself for the procedure, however, than her insurer, the Trustmark Insurance Co., made things more complicated. ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.7.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C875481%2C00.html%3Fiid%3Dchix-sphereLuring Western businessmen with premiums as low as 0.1%—"completely unrealistic," complains one Western insurer—it pulls in trade by writing policies for ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.26.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C147451%2C00.htmlLos Angeles-based Transamerica Occidental Life (1986 revenues: $1.9 billion) two years ago became the first insurer to announce that it would impose an AIDS ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00 http://www.googlealert.com/view.php?u=phillipnakata1&c=e512713&m=19.1180185614.8.1&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fhealth%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1622178%2C00.html... of a seizure when she’s denied emergency-room access, the husband and father with kidney cancer whose insurer won’t pay for a bone-marrow transplant). ...2007-05-26T14:20:14+01:00