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WASHINGTON -- The big hurricanes have passed for now, but the battle over insurance rates and cov... Storms create a spike in r
WASHINGTON -- The big hurricanes have passed for now, but the battle over insurance rates and coverage is just beginning.
Insurance industry executives and regulators are warning of significant premium hikes for homeowners' insurance nationwide -- including double-digit-percentage increases in the Gulf states -- that could also spill over into other types of insurance.
After a cata...
ATTLEBORO -- A city man is among 18 chiropractors accused in an alleged auto insurance scam total... City man charged in fraud.
ATTLEBORO -- A city man is among 18 chiropractors accused in an alleged auto insurance scam totaling millions of dollars in which patients were overbilled or overtreated, the state board that regulates chiropractors says.
Greg Karamanian worked in Lynn at West Lynn Chiropractic & Rehabilitation, one of five centers where chiropractors were charged with violations -- mostly fraud -- by the...
Mark Drabenstott, vice president and director of the Center for the Study of Rural America for th... Business briefcase...
Mark Drabenstott, vice president and director of the Center for the Study of Rural America for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, will speak on "Competing in the New Global Economic Race" at 1:10 p.m. Thursday at Iowa State University's Howe Hall in Ames. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Lower oil prices and technology news helped stocks rally Monday. News that Microsoft...
Tucked away in a corner of a post office in downtown Singapore is a free-standing booth operated ... How GE Money is making it
Tucked away in a corner of a post office in downtown Singapore is a free-standing booth operated by an employee of GE Money, the consumer finance arm of General Electric Co.
It's a modest display, but a popular one. Lunchtime customers wait patiently in line to apply for personal loans. The GE unit began marketing uncollateralised loans -- with hefty 14 per cent annualised rates -- t...
The holds a jambalaya feed benefit from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the high school, 2600 Catlin ... Good Deeds Notes...
The holds a jambalaya feed benefit from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the high school, 2600 Catlin Ave. Cost: $5 for adults; $3 for seniors and children; free for children five and younger. Proceeds benefit the Glenn Oaks High School in East Baton Rouge, La., which has become the temporary home to many students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
performs a benefit concert at8 p.m. Wednesday in...
'Intelligent transportation' on display at S.F.'s Moscone Center be added to old cars ... GM shows off 'smart' car te
'Intelligent transportation' on display at S.F.'s Moscone Center
be added to old cars for around $100 to $200, raising the possibility that insurance companies might some day pay the cost in the same way they reduced premiums for cars with back-window brake lights.
Grimm and other auto designers say technology is being developed for cars to take over the steering to avoid crash...
Tom Henning of Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. was one of nine employees recently named an associa... Who's News...
Tom Henning of Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. was one of nine employees recently named an associate of the Minneapolis-based firm.
The SHE Associates program annually recognizes SHE professionals who demonstrate strong leadership capabilities, outstanding job performance and exceptional client service.
Henning, of Sheboygan, joined SHE in 2002 as a project manager and technical expe...
When a company defaults on its pensions, workers must turn to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.,... Does a default doomsday lo
When a company defaults on its pensions, workers must turn to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., created in 1974 after many notorious corporate failures left workers with next to nothing.
But that agency has its own financial problems, namely a deficit of $23 billion.
That's not counting the possible bankruptcy-triggered pension defaults at Delta and fellow airline Northwest, nor ...
Louis deBottari, a 78-year-old retired aerospace worker with good drug insurance, recently opened... Medicare? No way, say comp
Louis deBottari, a 78-year-old retired aerospace worker with good drug insurance, recently opened an envelope from The Boeing Co., hoping to be reassured.
The notice, sent to about 100,000 Boeing retirees and their dependents, discussed the new Medicare drug insurance program that begins in January and what it means for retirees already covered by the company's health plan.
"In gen...
The German-American company, the world's fifth-largest car maker, said it plans to sell around 3... DaimlerChrysler lowers Merc
The German-American company, the world's fifth-largest car maker, said it plans to sell around 315,000 Mercedes-Benz cars in its home country this year.
That's less than a previous estimate made in August when the company said it expected sales to be on par with 2004 when it sold 338,100.
The company did not comment about estimates for 2006.
Shares of DaimlerChrysler fell le...
