The bottom line is there might be enough subsidies and risk insurance to get 12 new nukes.
The president proposed "risk insurance" to mitigate the cost of possible delays in the licensing of new reactors.
John McCain's idea of setting up high-risk insurance pools for the uninsured.
These include political risk insurance to cover losses in their investment.
While the human toll in London has been awful, the business effects appear to be fairly slight, in part because of terrorism-risk insurance held by the affected transport companies.
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Berlin has slashed assistance, cutting the amount of government-backed risk insurance for German firms doing new business with Iran by more than 60 percent in the past two years.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC): As you know, OPIC provides such assistance as financing and political risk insurance that enables companies and private equity funds to support infrastructure projects and other investments in developing countries.
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With respect to the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), it prudently acted to suspended its programs in China and to halt its underwriting of additional political risk insurance policies for that country before the President "asked" it to do so.
Of course, that hasn't stopped industry leaders from calling for an extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002 as a public-private program designed to help guard against insured losses from terrorism risk.
Legislation known as the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) of 2002 created a temporary partnership between the federal government and the commercial insurance industry in which both parties agree to share the burden of picking up the tab for terror-related commercial insurance claims.
Officials from the council (CEA) and the White House have kept mum about the report's findings, but we do know it will address the following issues: productivity growth, pro-growth tax policy, the fiscal challenges facing Medicare, catastrophe risk insurance, energy and infrastructure in the transportation sector, currency markets, international trade and investment and immigration.
Similarly, if health insurers were not allowed to know the results of genetic tests, people at higher risk could buy more insurance and insure for higher amounts, while those at lower risk would buy less insurance.
Previously the company axed higher-risk auto insurance, ditched most non-North American insurance business and converted employee-agents into independent contractors responsible for their own benefits.
He likens his business to the high-risk auto insurance business.
"It wasn't really as dangerous as it sounds, " says Ms. Sinberg, who manages risk and insurance for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, owners of the Hard Rock Cafe chain.
As part of a way to mitigate against excessive risk, insurance companies may elect to not insure an individual whom they judge possesses a high likelihood of incurring costs because of a pre-existing condition.
Massachusetts ex-governor and former healthcare reformer himself, Mitt Romney, is advocating abolishing Obamacare altogether while endorsing reforms such as allowing individuals to purchase healthcare insurance across state lines, increasing the tax-free savings limits for medical expenses, and allowing small businesses to pool risk for insurance discounts.
But as these workers leave traditional insurance, the risk pool in other insurance plans will worsen and premiums will rise even faster.
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Mr. BRIAN MONTGOMERY (Federal Housing Commissioner, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development): And that's the main difference between FHA and the subprime, is we price for the risk with an insurance premium, whereas in most of the subprime world, they price the risk in the interest rate.
"Insurance is about covering risk, and in Texas we have a lot of risk, " says Texas Insurance Department spokesman Jim Hurley.
What's the plan for dealing with the rising risk of floods and the insurance consequences of the rising risk of floods?
Nearly 16 million Americans who purchase insurance in the individual market are no longer at risk of losing their insurance.
Improved business results through integration of risk and core insurance processes and the alignment of processes and systems.
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Dr. PENNINGTON-CROSS: Then we're introducing a series of borrowers that will increase the overall risk of this insurance fund.
But it would also undermine the efficient pricing of risk by providing insurance, after the event, for risky behaviour.
Insurance blindfolds tell health insurance companies that they dare not take into account certain risk factors when setting insurance rates.
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"They could not cope with that kind of insurance risk, " he said.
He said current retirees aren't at risk of losing insurance coverage.
The move is aimed at creating a local alternative to the U.S. and European reinsurance market so that refineries won't have to look overseas to hedge their insurance risk.
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Families with children enrolled in the SCHIP programs in 13 states--Alaska, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Wisconsin--risk losing health insurance within weeks.
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