Its offer, due next week, will probably fall short of a commitment to letting in foreign insurance companies.
These heirs apparent are Edmund Tse , who heads international life insurance operations, and Martin Sullivan , who presides over AIG's foreign general insurance business.
Unlike the car industry, foreign health insurance companies play very little role in the U.S. market.
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In other news, the nearly nationalized American International Group announced plans to sell off a number of business units to pay off its massive and costly government loan, though it is retaining its U.S. property and casualty and foreign general insurance businesses.
Among the complaints were ones from the UK Foreign Office and insurance companies in several European countries.
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The Retail International segment comprises of bancassurance activities in foreign markets and insurance products such as car, property and casualty, marine, and fire insurance.
The United States refuses to address the regulations of its 50 states, which have been known on occasion to discourage foreign purchases of insurance companies, or to end federal subsidies.
It is pursuing legislation to open up the pension sector and increase foreign investment in insurance companies to boost an economy that is expanding at its weakest pace in a decade.
They may be more irked by supplementary measures from America and its allies in Europe and Asia aimed at deterring foreign banks, insurance companies and energy firms from dealing with Iran.
This is the case even though it is, in some ways, easier to sell health insurance to foreign customers.
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But liberalising measures, such as lifting the cap on foreign direct investment in insurance, win few votes in India.
The most common benefits bundled into these accounts are commission-free foreign currency, travel insurance, preferential overdraft deals, mobile phone insurance, music downloads and breakdown assistance.
Under Malaysian regulations, foreign equity ownership in insurance companies, investment banks and Islamic lenders is capped at 70%, while non-Malaysians can own up to 30% in conventional banks.
By contrast, with health insurance, foreign sales are much simpler.
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Most foreign hauliers face far higher insurance, business taxes and social contributions.
The government wants to let foreign companies go into life insurance, which should in time mean extra savings that could go, for instance, into infrastructure.
Ideas such as financial planning and insurance coverage can be foreign concepts to those from families or home countries where it was not common.
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FXL, a combination of a foreign-exchange hedge with an insurance policy.
Among the casualties were two much-touted economic reform bills, one to open insurance to competition and foreign investment, the other to curb piracy of patented products.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government had been hoping to push through legislations on easing foreign-investment rules in the insurance and pensions sectors and acquiring land for industrial and infrastructure projects in the budget session.
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If Japan's insurance industry is forced by foreign competition to reorganize itself more efficiently, a lot of jobs will be lost.
All major unions are protesting against government moves to open retail, insurance and aviation sectors to foreign investment and increase prices of subsidised fuel and cooking gas.
At the time, foreign banks were banned from buying into US insurance companies.
One argument may be that allowing foreign owned companies to operate in the health insurance market undermines the regulation by individual states under the current regime.
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This means pension funds, endowments, foundations, foreign investors, hedge funds, banks, insurance companies, and a host of other entities that are either not taxed or taxed using a different structure than individuals.
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The health ministry says the plan upsets the ministry's own proposals for nursing-care insurance, which make no provision for foreign workers.
In New York foreign investors mainly help to fuel the finance, insurance and information sectors, according to a new report by the Partnership for New York City, a business group.
Further opening of these foreign markets could be of great benefit to American health insurance companies.
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And yes, at Unilever's Mumbai headquarters on Monday morning, Mr Cameron urged Delhi to open its markets up to greater foreign trade, particularly in financial services like banking and insurance.
By law, foreign companies cannot own more than 50 percent of a life insurance company in China.
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