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		<title><![CDATA[Michigan Is Mad, And Taking It Out on the Insurance Industry]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arguably no state has been hurt worse by the recession than Michigan, once the car capital of the country and now saddled with more than 15 percent unemployment, up 6 percent from a year ago.    Politicians there are mad as hatters and taking it out on a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:03:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[LKQ Corp. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. We will now be conducting a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions.) Our first question does come from Tony Cristello with BB&T Capital Markets. Tony Cristello - BB&T Capital Markets One of the things, Joe, you referred to multiple times in the commentary was the level of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:05:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Property Insurers Continue to Look Good, But for How Long?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Third quarter earnings continue to sizzle for the earliest reporting insurers, but the news isn't all optimistic. The mountain air seems to agree with Ace, which moved to Switzerland in 2008. Operating earnings were up 39 percent, topping $700 million.    But pressed by analysts on its earnings...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:57:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sustaining In A Changing Environment: International Regulatory Cooperation Within The Insurance Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1023119]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As the global financial crisis continues to foster an environment of change and challenge for the financial markets, international governments are placing increased focus on regulation in an effort to prevent repeating past mistakes and to foster new uniformity and transparency standards across jurisdictional boundaries. And while moves toward this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dedicated To The Insurance Needs Of The Oil And Gas Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1185021]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Running an oil and gas business is no simple task. Overseeing rig equipment and tools, conducting well evaluations, managing crew and complying with government regulations all require in-depth industry knowledge and a commitment to exceptional practices. So troubleshooting problems that could affect your operations should be much more of a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Data Miner in the Insurance Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=101886]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With the lack of competition due to protective regulations, insurance companies have been slow to adopt data mining tools commonly used in other industries. However, deregulation and growing competition have insurance companies moving to more towards customer-centric operations, and the need for such tools has become vital to the industry....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Corporate Transparency: Addressing Sarbanes-Oxley in Today's Insurance Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=101919]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Within the Insurance industry, the advent of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has created an almost unprecedented level of concern and activity regarding financial reporting and regulatory compliance. Insurance organizations are being forced not only to assume full responsibility for the information included in their financial reports but also to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Need for a Business Intelligence Strategy : A Critical Analysis for the Insurance Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=72608]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Article explains the role of business intelligence strategy in insurance industry. Insurance traditionally has been a segmented industry. This exists not only in firms offering only single product lines, such as auto or life, but in large multiline companies as well, where the different business units function somewhat autonomously. While...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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