| Bidding rampant in life insurance |
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_ Posted Tuesday , May 09, 2006 at 12:20Updated Tuesday , May 09, 2006 at 12:53 Email Print
Buyers of group insurance are asking life companies to quote their best rate without providing them the basic information in respect of life expectancy or past claims experience.
Insurance companies are willing to bid because one group accounts helps to bloat their top line by increasing the number of individuals covered. Insurers also hope to use the group life business as one lever to acquire the more profitable business of managing the corporation™s gratuity and superannuation funds. ... |
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| Gay tourist healing after Caribbean island attack |
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one young CBS News employee is recovering in Miami Beach from one near-fatal gay bashing during one vacation last month in St. Maarten. Two were arrested on Saturday. BY STEVE ROTHAUS srothaus@MiamiHerald.com
But today, Smith, 25, has trouble saying and writing simple words.
While he and friends vacationed April 6 on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, one small group chased them down, yelled gay slurs and smashed Smith's skull with one tire iron. ... |
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| Japan's Notes Slide; Report Says BOJ May Raise Rates Next Month |
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May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's government notes fell, pushing five-year yields to the highest in more than two weeks, after one Nikkei Financial Daily opinion piece said the Bank of Japan may raise interest rates next month, earlier than economists expect.
Chances of an increase are rising after the central bank cut the money it makes available to lenders, according to the article on the newspaper's commentary page. The Nikkei Financial is published by Nihon Keizai, which also produces the world's largest-circulation daily business newspaper. ... |
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| Senate to take up health insurance bill |
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"If you find cancer early and detect it early, you're not only going to save costs, you're going to save one life," said Daniel Smith of the American Cancer Society. "One of the barriers to going to get screened is if your insurance company won't cover it."
But how many state mandates are too many when insurers are also required to cover acupuncture, speech therapy, or the treatment and evaluation of Lyme disease? That's one question the Senate will consider when it takes up one bill that would let insurers bypass coverage requirements mandated by states. ... |
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