Over the past three years, insurers have seriously depleted their reserves of cash, which they will need to build back up again. |
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Some insurers will not make deductions for carpets or floor coverings which are five years or even ten years old. |
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York council chiefs investigating how cash went missing at the authority's finance centre say they will be putting a claim in to their insurers. |
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Allow insurers to expand their product offerings to include group insurance, health and pension plans. |
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It seems clear that the diocese's insurers will not cover much of any future negligent supervision judgements or settlements. |
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During soft markets, insurers tend to undercut prices for competitive reasons. |
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Many speculators were instantly wiped out, while the less capitalized insurers were left at or near insolvency. |
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It may be a challenging task given that rival insurers claim the price paid was over the odds. |
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Rather than denigrating insurers, it would be instructive for Nation readers to hear from an actuary or underwriter. |
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Some say insurers had underpriced their policies to build market share and then, in 2002, raised rates in hopes of recouping their losses. |
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The primary insurers, however, undertook responsibility for legal expenses in full without limit. |
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The lion's share of theft takes place outside people's homes, so insurers may be reluctant to give cover to a bike that is not garaged at night. |
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One way to assure objective accounting is to encourage insurers to underwrite coverage for financial-statement risks, according to one professor. |
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New insurers are, in effect, partitioned off from the higher value plans by virtue of the uneconomic pricing this would entail. |
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What looked like a proposal of marriage between the two biggest insurers in Britain turned out to be a brief encounter. |
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It seems to embrace the proposition that owners or occupiers are insurers for the safety of others. |
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As with other insurers, it has a two-tier bonus structure on its endowment policies. |
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I had to ring one of the insurers myself to check the detail before writing this column. |
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In 1997, over 12 million people were covered for medical expenses by insurers, friendly societies, and cash plan companies. |
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Thus I feel caught between the Government and insurers with uninsurable losses. |
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That could change rapidly as hospitals learn they can make an end run around insurers. |
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Since then thousands of unresolved disputes between the insured and their insurers have been referred to the Insurance Ombudsman and settled. |
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Sources said that global insurers have begun once again re-evaluating the risk ratings of the domestic insurance market. |
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The obligations and duties of insurers doing direct selling need to be spelt out explicitly. |
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I expect insurers and other firms to preserve their profit margins at all costs. |
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Now, two months into the new year, the consequences appear to be far milder than the insurers suggested. |
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Some insurers will require proof of purchase, such as a receipt, or independent valuations for each declared item. |
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Anyone considering PHI should be careful about the broker they choose as brokers don't always sell products from all insurers in the market. |
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As one of the leading exponents of non-standard car insurance it can call on a large number of insurers. |
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He said private insurers will have to offer consumers an inexpensive, no-frills plan. |
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Heavyweights such as insurers, banks and telecoms had helped buoy the market. |
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The worst stock market slump in 30 years has hammered global financial stocks, raising fears about the capital strength of banks and insurers. |
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The couple, who are now living in rented accommodation in the village, spent most of last year wrangling with insurers. |
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Engineers' and quantity surveyors' reports have been sent off, and it is a matter for the insurers as to how they will progress the matter. |
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Insurance companies say the principal reason for the dramatic increases is the spiralling burden of reinsurance on all the major insurers. |
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Like many retail insurers, they offer a custom package direct to buyers which is reinsured through a larger firm. |
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Some small insurers may not be able to make good on all their obligations if several defaults surface at once. |
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Many policyholders cannot afford to pay their annual motor insurance in one go and so avail of credit arrangements from insurers and brokers. |
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Now large insurers have begun getting in on what many consider to be the future of health insurance. |
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Tour operators, travel agents, airlines, banks and health insurers have started to offer travel cover. |
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These cases show that motor insurers have determinedly resisted paying certain claims. |
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While insurers pay over a billion dollars in claims annually, over 200 people are killed. |
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He declined to name them but said he advised the officials to seek legal advice and to speak with their insurers. |
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A consumer may get five different quotes from five different insurers without knowing that they are all from the same legal entity. |
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Many insurers will still cover you for existing conditions, providing you are not travelling against your doctor's advice. |
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The insurers, having paid a claim made by the lessees of the refinery, brought against the defendants a subrogated claim for negligence. |
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My understanding is that insurers will pay for reconstruction but will not just pay out a cheque in lieu of same. |
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Most insurers moved towards limited liability by forming companies under the companies Acts of the mid-19th century. |
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Banks and insurers are cashing in on growing disaffection with inheritance tax by promoting services that offer to cut death duties. |
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The network, including bankers, security dealers, and insurers, mobilized very quickly. |
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To date, few buyers have used rating and coverage packages, but insurers predict that will change when online markets become more liquid. |
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He said the report found that Irish motor insurers made 11 times more post-tax profit than their British equivalents in the past 16 years. |
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Also on the agenda will be how to accelerate sales of the government's stakes in public companies and allowing insurers to go public. |
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With insurers paying for even routine care, consumers lack incentives to shop for low-cost, high-value care. |
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Thus, for example, many indemnity insurers will not pay for elective cosmetic surgeries. |
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Similarly, general practitioners functioning through primary care groups would charge insurers or offer prepaid services. |
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Some insurers provide premiums to pensioners or enhanced benefits by waiving excesses. |
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Claims handlers, who help policyholders pursue insurers, reckon that the most lucrative area is health insurance. |
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The life insurers are the walking wounded of this three-year bear market, because their earnings are linked to their stock market investments. |
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It may be that Mr. Mitchell assumed that it would relieve the insurers from all risk arising from vandalism, sabotage and malicious mischief. |
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Some insurers only compensate for delays to an outward journey and only on scheduled airlines, not charters. |
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To entice insurers to provide higher protection limits, the industry wants the federal government to backstop its unlimited liability. |
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Health insurers say the average rise in premiums dropped a couple of percentage points from a year ago. |
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Most insurers, plcs and mutuals alike, are sitting on large heaps known as orphan assets or free estates. |
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The company does not expect a hefty compensation bill as other insurers have also experienced tough times. |
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It is still worth shopping around among insurers other than the four main players. |
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The insurers have found that many suspect claims are dropped as soon as concerns are raised. |
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A German economic think tank is predicting the loss of 100,000 jobs, with banks and insurers the hardest hit. |
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Other insurers named in the case are banking that it will be thrown out by the federal court for the Southern District of Florida. |
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Some insurers and banks are needlessly holding up the process with medical exams. |
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Against this background fears of the impact of a mass sell-off by insurers cannot be discounted. |
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If the arbitrators confirmed the view of the insurers, then the benefits would not be payable. |
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We are talking to a life insurance company and a couple of non-life insurers for this. |
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Many insurers will not provide motor insurance quotations for certain careers. |
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In a general sense, insurers and insureds have a common interest in ensuring that only meritorious claims are paid. |
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The company no longer exists but Linda hopes to apply for compensation from its insurers. |
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One should obtain quotations from all the insurers to be able to compare costs and benefits. |
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At present, both insurers and employers can demand clinical and genetic information, if known, as a condition of employment or insurability. |
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British insurers said it was too early for the London market to put a figure on the claims. |
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In motoring, the state automobile associations began as sporting clubs but quickly became service organisations and insurers. |
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However, insurers say they need to see the results to prevent people cashing in unfairly on huge insurance payouts. |
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Payers, including health insurers and governments, are trying to rein in healthcare costs, and pharmaceuticals are a prime target. |
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The council had decided to temporarily shelve the proposal to standardise the sales illustrations of life insurers. |
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Fewer claims usually translates into substantially lower costs of claims incurred by insurers. |
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We also provide modeling support to the actuaries working on customized insurance products for insurers or large corporations. |
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There is growing evidence that insurers routinely miscalculate how much compensation is due. |
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There's nothing more important than accuracy when it comes to billing patients and insurers for psychological services, say ethics experts. |
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December's ruling will probably mean that insurers are less exposed to compensation claims. |
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They all add up, and insurers have a sneaky way of increasing renewal premiums each year, banking on your apathy not to move provider. |
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Where you park your vehicle overnight is also very important to the insurers. |
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A number of proposal forms were adduced in evidence to indicate the areas of concern to yacht insurers. |
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Deregulation has the effect of causing many state-owned insurers to lose their monopoly on the local markets. |
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Another crop of insurers chose to hopscotch past the Caribbean and locate here. |
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Increasingly, more insurers are partaking in agreements and codes of conduct which bind us to the correct ethical position for the long-term future. |
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Crooks can use it to apply for credit, file fake claims with insurers, or buy drugs and medical equipment that can be resold. |
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If insurers beat their benchmark by 3-8 percent, they have to split that extra revenue with the federal government. |
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Insurance is a large and varied industry, and frequently plays the heavy and bogeyman, especially the health insurers. |
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Analysts believe the larger insurers will have sufficient assets to withstand further falls, but some of the smaller companies may find staying afloat increasingly difficult. |
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About 170,000 homes in Scotland are at risk of flooding, according to the Scottish Executive, and insurers are counting the cost of deteriorating weather patterns. |
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However, the Massachusetts program requires insurers to cover preventative care without a deductible. |
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Some insurers are limiting it to patients who have tried the older drugs, but failed to get satisfactory results. |
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Many insurers have recently steered clear of properties held for residential letting and those who do give quotes will often only cover buildings and contents together. |
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The insurers and their amici argue that the rule of construction which directs the court to construe ambiguities in favour of the insured should not apply in the instant case. |
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And you'd face some truly epic problems getting insurers to insure it in the way that I think the author is envisioning. |
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On the flip side, when insurers fail to meet their benchmarks the government helps absorb those costs. |
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Aiming for the market occupied by the rich, some insurers are introducing cover for stalking, road rage, car jacking, aggravated burglary and kidnap. |
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Can life insurers load their premium if their policyholders work or live in trophy buildings and constructions that are potential terrorist targets? |
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It's worrying that mistakes that would stand out a mile to patients are being taken as gospel for all sorts of decisions made by healthcare staff, insurers and solicitors. |
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Law-abiding drivers will have to fork out extra to pay for compensation awards to victims of some 1,000 hit-and-run incidents being dealt with by insurers. |
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Health insurers are the backbone of the system, since they pay the bills. |
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Indeed, marketization can exacerbate the problem if it encourages insurers to fragment the risk pool and maximize profits by discriminating against people likely to get sick. |
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The profession remains a knotty tangle of influences and causations and aggravations and insurers. |
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That means insurers are involved in assessing both the liabilities involved in the airplane itself and of the airline. |
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Arguing that profiteering shipowners and unscrupulous insurers were collaborating in sending out unseaworthy vessels, the play led to popular outrage and a change in the law. |
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Besides, were she to be momentarily diverted by anything beyond the boundaries of her own, perfect body, her insurers would soon put the mockers on it. |
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How many votes to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition? |
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Church leaders have been forced to cover the windows with iron grilles and wooden boarding and the building's insurers have almost trebled the premiums. |
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The patients and their estates agree not to bring legal action against caregivers, pharmaceutical companies, and insurers. |
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A number of insurers seek to solve the problem of festive underinsurance by increasing their level of contents insurance cover for a nominal period before and after Christmas. |
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The firm was one of the biggest specialist insurers of employers' liabilities, and as such underwrote the risks by which asbestos claims should be covered. |
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But when the gas central heating packed in, insurers dropped a bombshell. |
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If any homes are judged to have been left completely uninhabitable by the floods insurers are likely to face further claims for the cost of temporary accommodation. |
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Making birth control an OTC drug would take the issue off the table because insurers wouldn't cover it. |
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The report says that some insurers are breaching codes of conduct laid down by the General Insurance Standards Council and the Association of British Insurers. |
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The scale of the sudden windfall has aroused suspicions that insurers had been busy in previous years squirreling away unnecessarily high reserves. |
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To begin with, almost all insurers buy insurance of their own, reinsurance, to deal with the biggest risks they face. |
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If an airline were inclined to go lax on security, hoping for the best rather than working to guarantee it, its insurers would quickly step in to correct it. |
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The notice period for cancellation by insurers should not be less than 30 days to provide enough time to a policyholder in organising cover from alternative sources. |
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Some insurers still agree to pay a set percentage of the chargemaster, so hospitals have an incentive to bump up those prices 5 or 6 percent a year. |
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Their superior bargaining power allowed insurers to negotiate sharp reductions in fees, which were passed on to employers in the form of lower premiums. |
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This could lead to further clampdowns by police and insurers. |
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But after the drug was withdrawn, 9,000 lawsuits were filed, many of them as class actions, seeking recovery for millions of individual users and their insurers. |
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The very public policy reason insurers do not insure against punitive damages, is that we don't want insurance to cover the perpetrators of intentional bad acts. |
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In support of the inside explosion theory the insurers rely in particular on the fact that no large fragments of plating were found in the engine room. |
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When asked to produce his driving licence, Smith, 41, admitted he had deceived his insurers into believing he was a motorcyclist with several years' experience. |
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Hospitals, NHS or private, would charge insurers for their services. |
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As well as hiking premiums, insurers have been cutting back on coverage and encouraging policyholders to raise their deductibles, which limits claims. |
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Looking at other mutual insurers that have demutualised in the past, endowment and pension payouts have fallen faster for the quoted companies than for mutual insurers. |
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At this time of year, insurers advise checking roofs for loose tiles and guttering, as well as making sure any overhanging trees are in a healthy condition. |
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The bailouts could be activated by downgrades in the claims-paying ability or other financial-solvency factors faced by insurers. |
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No wonder insurers estimate that phony claims now account for 15 to 20 percent of all auto insurance payments. |
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Underwriters Reinsurance provides reinsurance to property and casualty insurers and reinsurers. |
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The industry is overcapitalized, but capital usage is more efficient than elsewhere and the sector contains an efficient number of insurers. |
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Worker's comp insurers, however, are resisting paying for medical monitoring, and if no claim has even been filed, then forget it. |
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As a former fire marshal and fire investigator, Whitstine has worked with insurers before and used trained dogs to help pinpoint arson. |
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Even if insurers do still provide cover to IFAs, they may decide not to cover the increased FOS awards. |
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Research Department figures show that many insurers will not offer a no-claims discount to former company car drivers. |
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In the middle to late '80s, insurers started paying for custodial care and offering home care as an additional feature. |
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Big insurers have been heaping the governor with money just as he fights for massive reform of workers' comp. |
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As long as insurers come close to that benchmark, nothing happens. |
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The insurers are challenging a part of the rule that concerns establishment of a federal program for workers' comp. |
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It's not just the drillers and the sellers of gas that insurers are picking up premium from. |
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Such systems give the consumer a free choice amongst competing insurers whilst achieving universality to a government directed minimum standard. |
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Industry loss warranties are a creative risk management tool for insurers looking to balance their portfolios. |
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But the 87-year-old's plan to end a 3D film about how flight evolved in animals with a hang-glider sequence was halted by insurers. |
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However, introducing improved incentives through a more competitive environment among providers and insurers has proved difficult. |
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However, some insurers have treated it as a weather-related event, while others have made ex gratia payments. |
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These new claim objectives create a good-faith checklist and should help disability insurers avoid bad-faith litigation. |
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The results using the value-added approach indicate that demutualized life insurers improve their efficiency before demutualization. |
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Because I have no heirs, I am not allowed by my insurers to do dangerous sports like competitive motor racing, cave diving, or paragliding. |
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I do not think that we gold plate European regulations although I think others, insurers and other industry bodies, may gold plate on our behalf. |
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The federal government was the one party with the deep pockets to meet the rent-seeking needs of insurers and high-risk property owners. |
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The clickwrap method is one of the most popular approaches used by insurers today. |
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The proposed rule clarifies that group health plans and insurers can exchange enrollment information without amending plan documents. |
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Year-over-year, all insurance subsectors except claims adjusters and life insurers have added jobs. |
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For example, the warehouser might be a reinsurer that writes contracts to help primary insurers hedge mortality risk. |
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Like many propositions that look irresistible at first glance, claims outsourcing has proven a compelling but elusive goal for many insurers. |
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Physicians hope a coding change for cryopreservation will drive more insurers to cover the procedure. |
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Going to the capital markets cap in hand is a whole new experience for recently demutualized life insurers. |
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The Oncology Issues' article examines the dangers of brown bagging as well as how oncology practices can negotiate with brown-bag insurers. |
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Still, insurers said price spikes have occurred during other construction boomlets. |
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Csaba Mera, ODS Medical Director, knows exactly why ODS was in the front rank of medical insurers in Oregon. |
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Runs Tricare health-benefits plan for members of uniformed services, administered regionally by health insurers. |
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The article examines the risk-taking behavior of property-liability insurers in the presence of risk-based capital regulation. |
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We present evidence that the outperformance of demutualized insurers is mainly attributable to improved operating performance and lower-risk taking. |
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Richard Bortnick, an insurance litigation specialist with the law firm Cozen O'Connor, said that when a hedge fund implodes, insurers may be on the hook for some of the risk. |
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In practice this means that directors and officers may be left without cover whilst insurers and companies argue over whether a particular loss is or is not indemnifiable. |
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An overheated bancassurance market also causes insurers to overdevelop investments instead of focusing on development of the domestic market, CIRC said. |
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Though the company does not always provide financials to all parties that request them, its insurers do receive its generally accepted accounting principles statements. |
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First, the damages were too remote to be recoverable and, if such actions were to be allowed, it would leave insurers open to indefinite liability for an indefinite duration. |
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The AMA will seek federal legislation to require secondary insurers to pay Medicare deductibles and copayments, regardless of how much Medicare pays for the service. |
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This case predated the statute on nonjoinder of insurers but this result could still occur with nonjoinder, if the insurer pays and stops defending. |
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Today's insurers often used stylized text to brand or promote themselves. |
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Home Insurance products will be solely underwritten by Ageas and Motor Insurance will be underwritten by a selected panel of insurers managed by Ageas. |
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It results in spontaneous price cartel-like actions, which means solidary actions of groups of insurers with similar parameters pursuing similar goals. |
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Some of the monoline insurers, while apparently having adequate capital from a regulatory point of view, may not be able to meet these commitments. |
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This greatly mitigates damage as opposed to the multiple insurers that must be consulted and perhaps find their own salvors and conduct their own salvage sales. |
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Andrew Ryeland pulls no punches in offering a blunt assessment of how sky-rocketing premiums from insurers are hurting his guided ATV excursion company. |
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Free access to a general practitioner is a core right in the NHS, but private insurers in the UK will not pay for payments to a private primary care physician. |
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Sebastian Catovsky, ABI policy adviser on flooding, denied insurers were trying to wriggle out of pay-outs by slapping pounds 10,000 excess charges on customers. |
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North American insurers increasingly are seeking the services of external or unaffiliated actuarial firms to provide actuarial opinions for annual statutory filings. |
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Many major life insurers issue a standard policy only to HIV-negative people, while some offer costly and highly restrictive individual plans for HIV-positive insureds. |
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However, the insurers who have been trying to straighten out the system believe the PPN is a step that would benefit the customers in the long run. |
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You must provide the DVLA and your insurers with the correct details. |
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A privately held company called Verus Financial, for example, is working with more than 30 state agencies to audit life insurers for escheatable funds. |
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