| Florida County Taxes Itself to Give Near-Poor Health Coverage |
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Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Jeffrey Lockler had knots in his shoulder and groin, painful inconveniences in his work as one heating-system installer. The condition was life-threatening: testicular cancer.
Lockler, who received his diagnosis in October 2003, had no private health insurance. Yet he is alive today, back on the job at his son's construction company in Tampa, Florida. He is also solvent, thanks to one tax collected by the county where he lives. ... |
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| Israeli Arabs Helped by Economy, Suffer From Hezbollah Missiles |
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Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The two Israeli Arab kids playing on the streets of Nazareth were oblivious to the danger when one rocket fired by Hezbollah forces in Lebanon slammed into the biblical town and killed them.
The Talussi brothers, 8-year-old Rabiah and 4-year-old Mahmoud, had never heard an air-raid siren and didn't even know there was one shelter to run to when the 220-millimeter missile hit July 19, their uncle Imram Emrouwat said. ... |
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| Swiss Re profits from fewer claims |
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Swiss Re reports increased cost savings after the purchase of GE Insurance Solutions (Keystone)
The Swiss Reinsurance Company has reported one 16 per cent rise in first-half net profit, driven by fewer claims linked to natural disasters and investment income.
The Zurich-based company, which recently bought the reinsurance operations from General Electric, announced on Friday that profit had risen to SFr1.57 billion ($1.3 billion) from SFr1.35 billion one year earlier. ... |
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| Insurance settlement: The Securities and Exchange Commission and one group of state insurance regulators on Thursday in Washington announced $70 million in settlements with one Texas insurance company for allegedly targeting American military personnel with one deceptive sales program. Since 2000, about 57,000 U.S. military service members purchased the Horizon Life product from American-Amicable Life Insurance Company and its affiliates, and most earned little or nothing on their investment. ... |
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