Banks, insurance firms and retail outlets may find that life is getting nasty, brutal and short.
Another similarity between Buffett and Combs: an affinity for financial companies, particularly insurance firms.
By all rights American International Group (AIG) was one of the soundest commercial insurance firms in the world.
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We serve a lot of financial services such as CPA firms, wealth management firms, insurance firms and investment banking firms.
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In particular, they have questioned Mr Quackenbush's handling of claims against insurance firms by victims of the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
He is confident that insurance firms will manipulate their prices in ways that force patients to reveal adverse genetic biases.
Mr Hutton's proposed machines, which are already used by insurance firms, work in the same way but focus on speech patterns.
Many observers say the government should allow greater foreign investment in other sectors, including local pension fund management companies and insurance firms.
Prescription managers like Express Scripts and insurance firms like Wellpoint will continue to push for cheaper prices on Lipitor and other medicines.
There are also signs that, like Swiss banks, the insurance firms too may have been negligent in following up Holocaust survivors' inquiries.
The government-bond market is dominated by local banks and insurance firms which are forced to buy thanks to liquidity and solvency rules.
For example, India's stunted corporate-bond market might grow if banks and insurance firms were free to buy more corporate debt and less government paper.
So shifting away from the producer interest to bringing in more health insurance firms was certainly not the same as prioritising the consumer interest.
These securities have suffered big losses, and the insurance firms have been forced to pay out much more money in claims than they're used to.
Bond insurance firms do business by guaranteeing payment on a bond.
Why do consumers, insurance firms and regulators behave as they do?
It is used by insurance firms, landlords and even police agencies.
The whole city's economy has undergone a similar transformation: financial services now employ 69, 000 people, 15, 000 of them in call centres for banks and insurance firms.
These let insurance firms negotiate the sharing out of their inherited estates with policyholders, offering them cash immediately in exchange for their rights to future pay-outs.
The risk right now is that bond insurance firms will get downgraded by the major credit agencies, which means the bonds they insure will be worth less.
"There aren't any good reasons for Japanese life insurance firms to rush to invest overseas, given the recent rise in domestic government bond yields, " Mr. Noji added.
Recent mishaps have drawn attention to how companies protect personal information, especially if they sell this information on to insurance firms, law enforcement agencies and possible employers.
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Although the House is in the hands of Republicans (who favour insurance firms that give handsomely to their party), the Democrat-controlled Senate's proposal is the more generous.
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In the 1990s workers' comp costs fell, thanks to deregulation, which goosed price competition among insurers, and the stock market, which helped insurance firms cover underwriting losses with investment income.
The Malaysians' latest offer includes a promise to let foreigners own up to 51% of insurance firms, but does not protect the interests of foreigners now holding stakes greater than 51%.
Big brokerage and insurance firms hate the idea of a fiduciary standard because it mucks up their models and could require that they retrain and re-license their armies of registered representatives.
One sign that consumer-driven health plans are slowly gaining ground is that big insurance firms, which are normally sluggish when it comes to innovation, are beginning to copy their smaller rivals.
Prescription managers like Express Scripts (nasdaq: ESRX - news - people ) and insurance firms like Wellpoint will continue to push for cheaper prices on Lipitor and other medicines.
But insurance firms that have dealt directly with Mr Quackenbush say that witnesses due to be called later in the session, including the former deputy who oversaw the setting up of the foundations, will contradict these assertions of ignorance.
Insurance firms are also good at combining clues to spot suspicious claims: fraudulent claims are more likely to be made on a Monday than a Tuesday, since policyholders who stage accidents tend to assemble friends as false witnesses over the weekend.
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