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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 26, 2012
To the people who cover Washington, we call it chronicling situational immorality. Not since Bush v. Gore have we seen madness that could compare to this week’s Supreme Court debate over the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 13, 2012
The testiness between guaranty insurer MBIA and a group of banks over insurance coverage of structured financial instruments got more personal as each side accused the other of wrongdoing in court.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
January 5, 2012
While this is the beginning of a new year, old problems still remain—some of which show no sign of being resolved anytime soon, including in the insurance industry.
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By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 16, 2011
An article in The New York Times comparing captive insurance to “the shadow banking system” has Vermont’s captive regulator puzzled and frustrated—because while some of the observations are spot on, they don’t add up to a fair representation of the captive industry, he says.
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By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 12, 2011
The Captive Insurance Companies Association says an article on captives written in The New York Times this week “completely misses the point” and is “impossible to correct.”
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By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 11, 2011
A page-one New York Times article this week slammed state captive insurance laws, stating that they allow companies to “conduct Bermuda-style financial wizardry” in the U.S., but the Times company, it turns out, has its own captive domiciled in New York.
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By Staff Writer |
September 8, 2010
A British official endorsed a European Union plan to coordinate financial services supervision, including insurance, across EU member countries through new watchdog agencies, according to an article in the New York Times.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
August 30, 2010
Protesters who say insurance company lobbyists are working to undermine state efforts to implement the federal health care reform law interrupted the summer meeting here of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
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By Staff Writer |
August 25, 2010
In the spirit of risk management, the Washington Community Action Network made quite a scene giving out “lobbyist pandemic kits” during last week's meeting of the ...
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By Staff Writer |
August 23, 2010
New York's former insurance superintendent, Eric Dinallo, got a big boost in his campaign for state attorney general this past weekend in the form of ...
