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Safeguard your marriage - invest in divorce insurance today
The Examiner
| Ten years ago, when I was first starting to work with divorcing people, I had an idea that I thought would make divorce just a little bit devastating - at least on a couple's bank account. The idea was part of my "divorce preparedness plan" and it was to have what I called, "marital insurance." | ...
A man walks over a damaged road in Paiapoi, 20 kilometers (13 miles) south of Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 after the city was hit by an earthquake Saturday, Sept. 4. Christchurch  was struck by a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines and also ripped a new 11-foot (3.5 meter) wide fault line in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. At least 500 buildings, including 90 downtown properties, have been designated as destroyed in the quake near the South Island city of 400,000 people. But most other buildings sustained only minor damage.
(photo: AP / Rob Griffith)
After the earthquake... wind and rainstorms
NZ Herald
Updated 7:32 AM Monday Sep 6, 2010 Share Email Print | Are you in Canterbury? | Nature was wreaking more havoc on shattered Cantabrians early today as savage winds battered a province only just beginning to pick itself up after Saturday's devastating earthquake. | And with costs from the magnitude 7...
Insurance weakens in workplace [The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.]
Insurance Newsnet
| Sept. 06--Employer-based health insurance remains "the leading source of health insurance" in the U.S., covering about 159 million nonelderly people, according to a 2009 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educationa...
Area woman enjoys having two jobs [American News, Aberdeen, S.D.]
Insurance Newsnet
| Sept. 06--College scholarships left Laura Marsh without a stack of loans to pay back after she graduated in December from Northern State University, but the Aberdeen woman still works two jobs to pay the bills. | Marsh, 23, majored in art and now w...
BRIEF: The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky., column [The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky.]
Insurance Newsnet
| Sept. 05--Summit -- An accident in front of the Kyova Mall on U.S. 60 Sunday night sent two to the hospital by Health Net helicopter. | Disptachers said the accident happened around 6:45 p.m. when one car rear-ended the other. Names or conditions o...
Workers' comp progress gets a thorough review [Charleston Daily Mail, W.Va.]
Insurance Newsnet
| Sept. 06--CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When a 2.9 percent decrease in workers' compensation insurance rates takes effect Nov. 1, overall rates will have declined 43.7 percent since the state system was privatized in 2006, state Insurance Commissioner Jane ...
Industrial Alliance acquires Golden State Mutual
Insurance Newsnet
| Sep 06, 2010 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services, a life and health insurance company, has acquired the in-force life policies of California-based Golden State Mutual, or GSM. | The transaction was carri...
Briefing.com: Hourly In Play (R) - 09:00 ET
Insurance Newsnet
| Sep 06, 2010 (Briefing.com via COMTEX) -- Hourly In Play (R) | Updated: 06-Sep-10 09:00 ET | 17:02 | Reminder: Equity and bond markets are closed on Monday in observance of Labor Day | 16:51 | OC Owens Corning increasing production of continuous fi...
Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, July 15, 2009 in New York
AP / Yanina Manolova
Briefing.com: Stock Market Update - 14:30 ET
Insurance Newsnet
| Sep 03, 2010 (Briefing.com via COMTEX) -- Stock Market Update | Updated: 03-Sep-10 | The market at 14:30 ET | Dow: +110.31... | Nasdaq: +29.90... S&P: +13.03... | NYSE Vol: 5...
President Barack Obama picks up four-year-old Barack Anthony Stroud after he spoke about health care reform at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Thursday, March 25, 2010.
AP / Charles Dharapak
Children Eligible For Medicaid And CHIP Still Uninsured
redOrbit
| According to a new report, about five million uninsured children in the U.S. were eligible for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but were not enrolled in...
A high school student passes by a stock indicator in Tokyo Friday, Jan. 12, 2007. Japanese stocks rose Friday, helped by another record close on Wall Street and the dollar's rise above 120 yen, a boon to the nation's key export sector. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 218.84 pints, or 1.30 percent, to finish the day's trading at 17,057.01 points on the Tokyo Stock Exc
AP / Koji Sasahara
Briefing.com: Stock Market Update - 09:02 ET
Insurance Newsnet
| Sep 03, 2010 (Briefing.com via COMTEX) -- Stock Market Update | Updated: 03-Sep-10 | The market at 09:02 ET | Dow: ... | Nasdaq: ... S&P: ... | NYSE Vol: .. Adv: .. Dec: | Na...
The Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee delivering the inaugural address at the International Seminar on Transfer Pricing, in New Delhi on February 17, 2010.
PIB of India
Pranab: broadbase insurance cover
The Hindu
| Special Correspondent | - PHOTO: PAUL NORONHA | FINANCIAL INCLUSION:Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee cutting the cake on the 54th anniversary of LIC in Mumbai on Wednesday...
Discovery Forecasts UK Upswing as Country Boosts Profit
Insurance Newsnet
| Cape Town, Sep 06, 2010 (Business Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- SA's biggest health and insurance company, Discovery Holdings , said yesterday it expects a potentially profitable upswing in private medical insurance in the UK over the ...
Vitality's Effects 'Are Significant'
Insurance Newsnet
| Cape Town, Sep 06, 2010 (Business Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Discovery Holdings CEO Adrian Gore does not like to describe his firm's wellness programme Vitality as the glue holding its business units together, but he constantly emph...
Cholamandalam MS launches 'e-policy'
The Times Of India
CHENNAI: Cholamandalam MS General Insurance, a joint venture between the USD 3-billion Murugappa Group and the Japan-based Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance today launched an 'e-Policy' for its intermediaries, 'bancassurance' partners and customers. | This i...
Briefing.com: Hourly In Play (R) - 05:00 ET
Insurance Newsnet
| Sep 06, 2010 (Briefing.com via COMTEX) -- Hourly In Play (R) | Updated: 06-Sep-10 05:00 ET | 17:02 | Reminder: Equity and bond markets are closed on Monday in observance of Labor Day | 16:51 | OC Owens Corning increasing production of continuous fi...
Sports
Meagen Nay, of Australia, competes in the 200-meter freestyle during the Santa Clara International Grand Prix swim meet in Santa Clara, Calif., Saturday, June 13, 2009.
(photo: AP / Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Australian swimmers given permission to abandon Commonwealth Games
The Daily Telegraph Australia
| AUSTRALIAN swimmers have been given permission to abandon the Commonwealth Games if they are worried about security. | Swimming Australia president David Urquhart said yesterday he had told the team any swimmer who felt unsafe after landing in Delhi and wanted to leave would be given a paid flight home, even before their events. | Indian swim cha...
Business
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a meeting with the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. President Dmitry Medvedev urged state-funded banks to "act responsibly" Tuesday, the latest comments by top Russian officials warning that banks might be abusing the government's billion-dollar b
(photo: AP / RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)
Russia's Medvedev Forecasts Early Removal of Grain Ban
ABC News
| By Denis Dyomkin | September 6, 2010 | VORONEZH, Russia (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev signaled on Monday Russia's ban on grain exports may be lifted earlier than December 31 this year and state grain stocks may be insufficient to cover the drought-hit country's needs. | His remarks contradict Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who has said th...



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