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		<title><![CDATA[Consider Conseco]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conseco sells health insuranceÂ and other products, but until recently most investors considered it an ailing company. Tucked away in the quiet corner of Carmel, Indiana, Conseco bounced from misadventure to bankruptcy. Although it always paid its claims, if ever there was an insurer that looked like its pockets were empty,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:35:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG: The Good, the Bad, and the Convoluted]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[American International Group has more than its share of headlines each week, and it's tough to decipher them all. The insurer was run for more than 30 years by former CEO Hank Greenberg as a puzzle only he could solve, and the confusion left behind when he was ousted in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:36:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[State Farm Warms Up to Florida and Decides to Stay]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The battling between Florida and its insurers has been notorious and nasty, but perhaps the Yuletide season has made them a little nicer. At any rate, the year-long feud between Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who is seeking a U.S. Senate seat, and State Farm, the nation's largest home insurer, finally...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:53:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CBA Completes Sale of Fiji Business]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd has completed the sale of its Fijian banking and insurance businesses to the Bank of South Pacific Ltd.The Sydney-based bank announced on Friday the completion of the sale, which it announced in June.Bank of South Pacific, based in Port Moresby and Papua New Guinea's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:21:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lloyd's of London CEO Encourages B-school Students, Managers to Take Risks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While speaking recently at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, Richard Ward, CEO of the insurance specialist Lloyd's of London, encouraged students to be risk takers. He also shared some ideas for managers hoping to get the most out of the risks they take. by Stacy Blackman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:00:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insuring an Image: What if Woods Can't Deliver the Goods?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good definition of an insurer is one who profits from the misfortune of others. That's been true since the days when ships lost their cargo to pirates in the 1600s. And it's just as true today when corporations lose millions because celebrity endorsers are caught in the act. But...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:01:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Misadventures of Moody's: Touting The Hartford, Mangling MetLife]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most analysts don't have the access to the company financial records that Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's and Fitch do when they formulate their credit ratings. Theoretically that should make them smarter than the rest of us.    But only theoretically. Each of the three big rating...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:33:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Firstfolio Boost For Medibank Members]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Home loan and financial services provider Firstfolio Ltd has signed a deal with Medibank Private to give the health insurer's members access to a mortgage check and discounted loans.Firstfolio will give members of Medibank, Australia's biggest private health insurer, access via website eChoice to a free home loan health...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:34:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NAB Trumps AMP in $12 Bln Offer For AXA Asia-Pac]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SYDNEY (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - National Australia Bank NAB made a surprise trump bid for AXA Asia Pacific Holdings' AXA Australian and New Zealand units on Thursday, in a cash deal that would value all of the target firm at around $12 billion.The bid tops an offer from Australian life insurer AMP...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:00:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wood Attempting to Buy Out Esure]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Peter Wood, the founder of several insurance companies, is lining up financing to buy out his Esure motor insurance business from Lloyds Banking Group LLOY, the Sunday Times reported.The newspaper said Wood had lined up financing from the buyout firm Penta Capital and hedge fund Toscafund...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:08:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG Top Staff Struggle Financially: Report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Top executives at troubled insurer American International Group AIG have been struggling financially after taking personal losses in the wake of the near-collapse of the company last year, AIG's chief executive Robert Benmosche told the Wall Street Journal in an interview.The losses were incurred when the executives' cash...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:00:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Kill AIG Now' Is Starting to Catch On]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA["Kill AIG now," has been said before, but seldom as coherently as it's expressed by Eli Lehrer, director of the Center on Risk, Regulation and Markets.    Lehrer works for the Heartland Institute, a Conservative think tank, but don't hold that against him. While he has distinct libertarian...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:04:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insuring the Road to Splitsville: Does It Make Sense?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurance companies offer wedding insurance, but insurers might also want to provide married couples with divorce insurance just in case the best made plans don't work out, suggests J. Christopher Westland, a professor of "information and decision sciences." This University of Illinois educator has been hard at work projecting the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:31:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[State Legislators Try to Preempt Federal Healthcare Reform]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/10001497/state-legislators-try-to-preempt-federal-healthcare-reform/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A conservative group has prompted bills to be introduced in a dozen states that would preempt federal reform legislation, and there are suspicions that the insurance industry is behind this move. by Ken Terry]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:29:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insurance Regulators Aren't Warming Up to Global Warming]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often the ruling body of the U.S. insurance industry, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners NAIC, has a good idea. But then they think better of it and reverse course. Such an idea was the Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure SurveyÂ that asked insurers about their efforts - or lack...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:10:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insurers Behaving Badly: USAA, The Hartford and Lincoln National]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the unraveling of American International Group no one seems to have any sympathy for insurance companies that find loopholes in laws they are supposed to obey, or laws they have gotten passed exempting themselves.    So stories in today's Wall Street Journal Â should, at the very least,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:19:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Colorado State University Makes an Early-Bird Hurricane Prediction]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone makes jokes about the meteorologist being wrong. And often they're right. Weather people are not perfect at predicting what's going to happen, even when it's blowing across the plains straight at them. Mountains stand in the way, turbulent air currents can push it off in a different direction, and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:35:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[As Insurers 'Emerge from the Storm,' Pricewaterhouse Predicts Rocky Road]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurers weathered the financial meltdown of 2008 and the recession of 2009, but over the next five years they face more stringent regulation, higher taxes, and survival of the fittest, says an industry consultant.    Yesterday the accounting and consulting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers issued "Emerging from the Storm:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:06:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[We're Not AIG! Insurers Bristle at Being Charged for 'Systemic Risk']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurers rarely unite on anything, but they definitely see eye-to-eye on a proposed plan by Congress to set up a fund that would provide $100 billion in backup in case of another debacle like American International Group.    AIG's collapse nearly brought down the financial system due to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:07:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mexico hedges against falling oil prices]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mexico has taken out a $1bn insurance policy against oil prices falling next year, a clear signal that commodities producers remain wary about the threat of a double-dip recession.The world's sixth largest oil producer said on Tuesday that it had hedged all its net oil exports for 2010, by...]]></description>
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