Cohen & Company Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha (blog)
The increase in professional services and other operating expenses includes the impact of certain merger related professional costs, higher insurance

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The PMI Group, Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha (blog)
In addition, a remaining credit of approximately [audio break] will be utilized on this future tax liability for the PMI Mortgage Insurance Company as well.

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General Growth, White Birch, Madoff, GM: Bankruptcy
BusinessWeek
The committee piles on, saying UBS is disqualified because it already represents the official equity holders' committee. The committee is against the idea

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Business Highlights
The Associated Press
The government has spent billions to keep mortgage rates low and give buyers tax breaks, but both programs are set to end this spring.

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Los Angeles Times
The high cost of quake insurance will rock your bank account
Los Angeles Times
For the first time as a homeowner, he's now without earthquake insurance. "I really feel that I've been stripped of something that I need as a homeowner in

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No-frills funerals are latest sign of times
The Detroit News
Heather Coats, owner of Coats Funeral Home in Waterford and Coats Village Funeral Home in Ortonville, has been working with more families that are having

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FDIC's Bair says tackling underwater mortgage woes
Reuters
Now, a core problem is underwater mortgages in which the owner owes more on the mortgage than the home is worth. Bair cited estimates that show almost 16

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Bradenton Herald
Lawsuits over defective Chinese drywall heading to trial
Bradenton Herald
Scottsdale referred calls to Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, its corporate owner. Nationwide spokeswoman Nancy Smeltzer said the company does not

Drug Busts on the Cheap Lack Power to Deter: Michael K. Loucks
BusinessWeek
(Michael Loucks, co-author of “Prosecuting and Defending Health Care Fraud Cases,” supervised health-care prosecutions in the Massachusetts US attorney's

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Can the Government Really Force You to Buy Health Insurance?
FOXNews
That ruling allowed for the federal regulation of the business of insurance under the Commerce Clause, and focused on nationwide insurance businesses

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S&P Upgrades Nationwide Health Properties A Notch >NHP
Wall Street Journal
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised ratings on Nationwide Health Properties Inc. (NHP) a notch, reflecting the real-estate investment trust's stable
Standard & Poor's Upgrades Nationwide Health to BBB, Outlook Stable (NHP)Trading Markets (press release)

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Boy who lost mom takes health-care story to DC
Seattle Times
On Tuesday, Marcelas is taking part in a protest rally in Washington, DC, against insurance companies organized by Health Care for America Now, a nationwide

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Kingsway Financial Services Leads Friday's AMBG as Global Insurance Index
Insurance News Net (press release)
The Global Life Insurance Index led the sector indexes, with the Asia/Pacific Insurance Index trailing the list. In descending order, the AM Best Insurance

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RIL leads decline
BloombergUTV
American International Group Inc inked a deal to sell its unit American Life Insurance Company, better known as Alico, to MetLife Inc for about $15.5

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US Equities Open Week With Mixed Results
CFD Trading
Other shares with unusual moves today included AIG, which rallied over 3 percent after agreeing to sell its American Life Insurance Co. unit to MetLife.

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The Guardian
The Pru looks East
Independent
"In the longer term, there can be absolutely no doubt that the demographics of Asia and its appetite for life-insurance will be much greater than the UK and
Prudential accelerates Hong Kong listing plansMarketWatch
Tidjane Thiam has bet the house on Asia, while Andrew Moss is going for Europe Telegraph.co.uk

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Film Shorts
FWWeekly
(Opens Friday in Dallas) Saint John of Las Vegas (R) Based on a story by Dante, Hue Rhodes' film stars Steve Buscemi as an insurance investigator who fears

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Malaysia Star
No immediate impact on Prudential M'sia
Malaysia Star
AIG agreed to sell its Asian life insurance unit, AIA, to Britain's Prudential Plc last Monday for US$35.5bil in the largest insurance deal ever,

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Wintrust Financial Corporation Announces Closing of Common Stock Offering
MarketWatch (press release)
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of any offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of these

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Business Highlights
The Associated Press
American Life Insurance, known as Alico, operates in more than 50 countries. MetLife currently offers services in 17 countries. It also moves AIG closer to

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Globe and Mail
For Greece, Bond Sale Is Step Back From Disaster
New York Times (blog)
“This was a very, very good deal,” said Petros Christodoulou, the new head of Greece's debt management agency, referring to the bond sale.
For Greece, Bond Sale Is a Step Back From DisasterNew York Times

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