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JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - A group of attorneys once affiliated with tort lawyer Richard (Dickie) Scruggs was disqualified from a case that accuses an insurance company of racketeering in its handling of policyholder claims after Hurricane Katrina.
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DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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BRUSSELS (Bloomberg) — European Union regulators are considering scrapping an antitrust exemption that allows European insurers, reinsurers and brokers to share data, write standard contract terms and set premiums.
The European Commission, the EU's a...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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BRUSSELS (Bloomberg) — Billionaire George Soros said the boom in commodities is still in a "growth phase" after prices for oil, wheat and gold rose to records.
"There is a commodity bubble which is still in the growth phase," Soros said yesterday at ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Merrill Lynch & Co., the world's largest brokerage, said yesterday it would cut another 3,000 jobs after more than $6.5 billion of fresh write-downs pushed it to a loss for the first quarter.
It marks the third straight quarterly loss...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices slipped from record highs yesterday after a drop in US inventories and the weaker dollar had pushed prices above $115 a barrel.
US crude settled down seven cents at $114.86 a barrel after rallying to an all-time peak o...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Half of all dangerous products seized by European customs and product safety authorities last year came from China, the European Commission said yesterday.
The EU stressed that this was partly explained by the huge amounts of...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AP) - No one died during 2007 in accidents among larger scheduled US airlines and smaller commuter aircraft, and deaths in private plane accidents dropped to 491, their lowest total in more than 40 years, the government reported on Wednes...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities are working on a plan to break a lending squeeze gripping the home loan market and could announce details as early as next week, a source close to the situation said yesterday.
Pressure has been growing on the g...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AP) - American Airlines has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought by more than 350 pilots who said they were unfairly penalised by being barred from accruing vacation time and sick days while on military leave, the Justice Depar...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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PartnerRe has become the latest reinsurance company to set up base in Brazil, with plans to expand its business in Latin America.
The global reinsurer yesterday announced the establishment of a representative office in Sao Paolo, and has applied for ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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